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    • Saturday, 18 November, 2023
      Short seller Jim Chanos to close his main hedge funds

      Legendary bear says interest in fundamental stockpicking has waned

      Jim Chanos
    • Tuesday, 30 August, 2022
      Due Diligence
      Jim Chanos vs private equity Premium content

      Plus, JPMorgan’s encounter with an unprofitable start-up that wanted to list

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    • Monday, 29 August, 2022
      News in-depthTechnology sector
      Will the cloud kill the data centre? Jim Chanos thinks so

      Veteran short seller is betting against server warehouses but some of the world’s biggest investors remain bullish

      Montage of Jim Chanos with logos of Digital Realty, Microsoft and Google
    • Monday, 4 July, 2022
      FT Asset Management
      Conservative proposals flop at US AGMs

      Plus Jim Chanos’ next ‘big short’, rising distress in European corporate debt and American fashion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

    • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
      Hedge funds
      Hedge fund manager Jim Chanos’s next ‘big short’ is data centres

      Short seller bets against Reits that own big server warehouses on risks that customers will become rivals

      Short seller Jim Chanos
    • Friday, 29 April, 2022
      News in-depthTesla Inc
      What does Elon Musk’s Twitter deal mean for Tesla?

      Shareholders ask whether plate-spinning billionaire will spend less time at carmaker

      Elon Musk speaking during the opening of the Tesla plant in Germany
    • Thursday, 13 January, 2022
      Beyond Meat Inc
      Short sellers tuck into Beyond Meat

      Jim Chanos says plant-based producer has ceased to be a growth company

      Packages of Beyond Meat’s ‘Beyond Burger’ on a shelf at Whole Foods
    • Wednesday, 22 September, 2021
      Evergrande Real Estate Group
      Evergrande fallout could be worse than Lehman for China, warns Jim Chanos

      Crisis at property developer ‘symptomatic’ of broader woes in world’s biggest emerging market, says short seller

      Jim Chanos pictured in Las Vegas in 2017
    • Friday, 2 July, 2021
      Markets
      Live today: FT Alphaville featuring Jim Chanos

      Things will be getting bearish at 4pm BST/ 11am on Twitter Spaces.

    • Friday, 25 June, 2021
      Spac boom is creating ‘castles in the sky’, Jim Chanos warns

      Veteran short seller is betting against some Spac companies as market draws scrutiny from regulators

      Jim Chanos: ‘We suspect that more and more companies are playing . . . fast and loose with their projections in order to entice investors to commit capital’
    • Tuesday, 2 February, 2021
      Due Diligence
      Robinhood, GameStop and a last-minute dealmaking dash Premium content

      The trading platform’s regulatory woes spurred a flurry of venture capital deals

    • Saturday, 30 January, 2021
      US equities
      Jim Chanos laments politicisation of ‘surreal’ GameStop saga

      Kynikos Associates founder says short-sellers have been ‘beat up and left for dead’ but are still being blamed

    • Tuesday, 28 July, 2020
      Due Diligence
      Lunch with the famed short-seller betting against Tesla Premium content

      Jim Chanos says Elon Musk ‘has personified the hopes and dreams of this bull market’

    • Friday, 24 July, 2020
      Lunch with the FTLunch with the FT: top 10 interviews from 2020
      Jim Chanos: ‘We are in the golden age of fraud’

      The short-seller on being a bear in a bull market, betting against Tesla and why he thinks ‘trouble’s coming’

    • Friday, 24 July, 2020
      Hedge funds
      Jim Chanos pockets $100m from Wirecard short

      Hedge fund manager who predicted collapse of energy giant Enron bet against once high-flying German fintech

    • Friday, 1 November, 2019
      Hedge funds
      Jim Chanos gets October windfall from corporate disasters  

      Short seller has bumper month after Grubhub and PG&E shares plunge

      James Chanos, founder and president of Kynikos Associates LP, speaks during the 21st annual Sohn Investment Conference in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, May 4, 2015. Since 1996 the Sohn Investment Conference has brought together the world's savviest investors to share fresh insights and strategies in support of pediatric cancer research and treatment. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
    • Thursday, 9 August, 2018
      US & Canadian companies
      Tesla short-sellers remain steadfast on stock slide

      Investors with negative positions say they do not believe Musk can pull off buyout

      In this July 8, 2018, photo, 2018 Model 3 sedan sits next to a Model X on display outside a Tesla showroom in Littleton, Colo. Board members at Tesla are evaluating CEO and Chairman Elon Musk’s $72 billion proposal to take the electric car and solar panel maker private. Six of nine members say in a statement Wednesday, Aug. 8, that Musk began talking with the board about the move last week. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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