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Kynikos Associates founder and short seller Jim Chanos took to his unofficial (and unconfirmed) Twitter  account Thursday to take a shot at Equinix Inc (NASDAQ: EQIX) CEO Charles Meyers on the heels of the company’s earnings report, which Chanos said has “made...

U.S. indices finished lower Monday as stocks pulled back from last week’s rally. A drop in Boeing Co (NYSE: BA) following a 737 crash, a rise in oil prices and a rise in yields all had an impact on market sentiment. The Nasdaq composite finished lower by 0.40% to 13,838; The...

Kynikos Associates founder Jim Chanos announced a new short position in Coinbase Global Inc (NASDAQ: COIN) after the market closed Friday. The famed short seller cited valuation concerns and warned that the cryptocurrency exchange would fail to reach ...

Kynikos Associates founder and famed short seller Jim Chanos is back at it again. He announced a new short position in Coinbase Global Inc (NASDAQ: COIN) Friday after the market closed on CNBC's "Closing Bell: Overtime." "Coinbase is what we would call one of the bubble...

Kynikos Associates founder and famed short seller Jim Chanos still maintains short positions in Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) and International Business Machines Corp (NYSE: IBM), he said Monday on CNBC's "Fast Money Halftime Report." As Tesla has continued...

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc (NYSE: AMC) gapped up Tuesday morning after printing a second-quarter earnings beat, but slammed into resistance at the 21-day exponential moving average and sold off over 8%. The Reddit darling has squeezed shorts twice already this year but that didn’t...

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc (NYSE: AMC) is trading higher Tuesday after the company announced better-than-expected financial results.  The problem with AMC Entertainment is that investors are looking at the numbers in comparison to 2020, when the numbers should actually be compared to the...

On CNBC's "Fast Money Halftime Report," Jim Chanos said he transformed his Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) short position into a put position. Chanos is founder and president of Kynikos Associates LP and is a well-known short seller of Enron fame. He's been vocal on his bearish...

Tesla Inc’s (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock might have increased by 6.5 times this year, but that hasn’t instilled any confidence in Jim Chanos, according to Barron’s. Jim Chanos is a well-known fundamental short seller of Enron fame and the founder and President of ...

Famed short-seller Jim Chanos has reduced the size of his short position on Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA), but he is not done with it yet, Bloomberg reports. What Happened: Jim Chanos has been short on Tesla since 2016. “It wasn’t such a bad short,” for the...

Kynikos Associates founder Jim Chanos has held a short position in Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) for a long time, and he doesn't appear to be changing his mind anytime soon. Chanos was a guest on CNBC Thursday afternoon to share some of his favorite short positions. See Also: Jim Chanos Talks Latest...

Kynikos Associates founder Jim Chanos was a guest on CNBC to share some of his "favorite" short positions and to discuss his most recent major win in Luckin Coffee Inc (NASDAQ: LK) Avoid Chinese Stocks 'Like The Plague' Investors need to simply avoid Chinese stocks "like the...

Shares of GrubHub Inc (NYSE: GRUB) fell Thursday after Jim Chanos said he is short the stock due to concerns around competition and labor costs. Competition is good for the company, and investors should take advantage of Thursday’s weakness, according to D.A. Davidson. The Analyst Tom Forte...

The Delivering Alpha 2019 conference took place Thursday in New York, and this year’s event included a number of Wall Street heavy hitters. Benzinga Pro reported from Delivering Alpha all day long. Here’s a recap of some of the major headlines you may have missed: Bruce Richards Of...