{"id":65156,"date":"2018-08-08T01:18:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T05:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=65156"},"modified":"2018-08-10T02:22:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T06:22:22","slug":"tesla-buyout-would-add-to-year-of-pain-for-short-sellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2018\/tesla-buyout-would-add-to-year-of-pain-for-short-sellers.html","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Buyout Would Add to Year of Pain for Short-sellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Reuters) It would be the ultimate black eye for short sellers. A buyout of electric carmaker Tesla Inc., led by entrepreneur CEO Elon Musk, would cap a painful ride for short sellers, who have amassed more than $13 billion in bets that the company will founder and deliver them a huge windfall. Instead, Tesla\u2019s stock has surged more than 900 percent in five years, and this year alone losses have now topped $3 billion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-tesla-musk-shortsellin-analysis\/tesla-buyout-would-add-to-year-of-pain-for-short-sellers-idUSKBN1KS2EQ\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) It would be the ultimate black eye for short sellers. A buyout of electric carmaker Tesla Inc., led by entrepreneur CEO Elon Musk, would cap a painful ride for short sellers, who have amassed more than $13 billion in [&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-65156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65156","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=65156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65157,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65156\/revisions\/65157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}