Data Explorers News
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Herbalife Ltd. rose the most in more than four months, signaling that Carl Icahn’s prediction that rival hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman would become the victim of the “mother of all short squeezes” may be coming true.
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Markit Group Ltd. bought Data Explorers, which collects and sells information on securities lending, from private-equity firm Bowmark Capital LLP.
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Investors have doubled their borrowing of Irish government bonds since July in a sign of greater activity by short sellers, who bet on a security’s decline, according to Data Explorers Ltd.
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Investors are exiting bearish bets on global equities, pushing bullish wagers on stocks to a two- year high versus short sales, according to Data Explorers.
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Investors may have added to bets on a decline in Greek government bonds last week as the nation conceded it will need aid to manage debt payments, information from Data Explorers shows.
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The cost to short sell Facebook Inc. has surged to the most-expensive level in a 10-point scale developed by Data Explorers Ltd., which said bets against the social-media company amount to 4.3 percent of shares sold in the company’s initial public offering.
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Short selling in Hong Kong has risen to the highest level since September 2010 as concerns of slowing Chinese economic growth and further monetary-policy tightening intensify, according to a report from Data Explorers.
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Hong Kong has surpassed Japan for the first time as Asia’s most-lucrative market for stock lenders, boosted by investor demand for Chinese securities to be used in short sales.
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Groupon Inc., which just completed the biggest initial public offering by a U.S. Internet company since Google Inc. sold shares in 2004, is among the most difficult stocks for short sellers to borrow and bet against.
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British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc’s board may come under pressure to push Rupert Murdoch ’s News Corp. for another 2.2 billion pounds ($3.6 billion) as hedge funds flow into shares of Britain’s largest pay-TV provider.
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