{"id":65096,"date":"2018-08-05T00:07:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T04:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=65096"},"modified":"2018-08-07T00:35:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T04:35:27","slug":"tesla-shares-spike-dealing-short-sellers-a-1-7-billion-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2018\/tesla-shares-spike-dealing-short-sellers-a-1-7-billion-loss.html","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Shares Spike, Dealing Short-Sellers a $1.7 Billion Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) shares soared 16 percent on Thursday, a day after the electric car maker\u2019s better-than-expected quarterly report, and financial analytics firm S3 Partners said short-sellers were slammed with $1.7 billion in paper losses on the day. S3 said the day\u2019s losses pushed the aggregate year-to-date performance of short-sellers in Tesla into the red. Short-sellers aim to profit by selling borrowed shares, hoping to buy them back later at a lower price. Tesla is the most shorted U.S. stock.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-tesla-results-shorts\/tesla-shares-spike-dealing-short-sellers-a-1-7-billion-loss-idUSKBN1KN2QM\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) shares soared 16 percent on Thursday, a day after the electric car maker\u2019s better-than-expected quarterly report, and financial analytics firm S3 Partners said short-sellers were slammed with $1.7 billion in paper losses on the day. S3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65097,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65096\/revisions\/65097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}