{"id":75695,"date":"2020-09-22T00:23:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T04:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=75695"},"modified":"2020-09-21T23:50:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T03:50:36","slug":"hedge-funds-pile-into-nikola-short-positions-as-e-vehicle-makers-founder-resigns-amid-fraud-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2020\/hedge-funds-pile-into-nikola-short-positions-as-e-vehicle-makers-founder-resigns-amid-fraud-allegations.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds pile into Nikola short positions, as e-vehicle maker\u2019s founder resigns amid fraud allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Hedgeweek) <em><strong>Hedge fund short sellers are circling Nikola Corporation, the electric vehicle and component manufacturer at the centre of fraud allegations, with the Nasdaq-listed firm\u2019s share price tipped to tumble this week following executive chairman Trevor Milton\u2019s sudden resignation on Sunday night (20 September).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hedgeweek.com\/2020\/09\/21\/289874\/hedge-funds-pile-nikola-short-positions-e-vehicle-makers-founder-resigns-amid\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Hedgeweek) Hedge fund short sellers are circling Nikola Corporation, the electric vehicle and component manufacturer at the centre of fraud allegations, with the Nasdaq-listed firm\u2019s share price tipped to tumble this week following executive chairman Trevor Milton\u2019s sudden resignation on [&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-75695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75695","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=75695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75696,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75695\/revisions\/75696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}