By Reuters Staff
1/THE BIG SQUEEZE
FILE PHOTO: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, (NYSE) in New York, NY, U.S., April 30, 2018. REUTERS/Brendan Mcdermid/File Photo
In just a week, the ‘Reddit crowd’ trade which squeezed out seasoned hedge funds from GameStop has gone global.
Herding on the other side of bearish bets proved so profitable in GameStop and other shorted American stocks that it didn’t take long for copycats to emerge across the globe.
On Jan. 26, a seemingly random buying frenzy lifted a handful of stocks across Europe. Soon enough, traders spotted what UK publisher Pearson, German drugmaker Evotec and property firm Unibail-Rodamco had in common: they were among Europe’s most shorted stocks.