{"id":66201,"date":"2018-10-15T00:29:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T04:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=66201"},"modified":"2018-10-17T00:53:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T04:53:13","slug":"tencents-250bn-party-fails-to-attract-short-sellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2018\/tencents-250bn-party-fails-to-attract-short-sellers.html","title":{"rendered":"Tencent&#8217;s $250bn Party Fails to Attract Short Sellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(The National) If there\u2019s an upside to a downturn it\u2019s that short sellers get to make a buck. By borrowing shares, investors can sell what they don\u2019t own. If the price falls, they buy the stock back at a cheaper level and return it to the lender (with interest), pocketing the difference. Assuming the shares fall enough and borrowing costs aren\u2019t too high, a short seller can make a tidy profit while other investors lose money. Many company executives hate this process \u2013 and the people who engage in it \u2013 possibly to the point of indulging in wayward (and expensive) tweets. Yet if a large, high-flying and well-known company falls 44 per cent from its peak, you might expect to see hedge funds and short sellers popping a lot of champagne.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/business\/technology\/tencent-s-250bn-party-fails-to-attract-short-sellers-1.780380\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The National) If there\u2019s an upside to a downturn it\u2019s that short sellers get to make a buck. By borrowing shares, investors can sell what they don\u2019t own. If the price falls, they buy the stock back at a cheaper [&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-66201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66201","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=66201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66202,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66201\/revisions\/66202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}