With these companies, short sellers rely on falling prices

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Dusseldorf The situation on the stock market has changed: 2022 will be the year of monetary policy change, combined with rising interest rates. There is also hope that the corona pandemic is drawing to a close. Hedge funds are also reacting to this by betting on falling share prices with so-called short bets. This is shown by an evaluation by the Handelsblatt of data in the Federal Gazette on 160 shares listed in the Dax, MDax and SDax.

The total number of short positions is almost unchanged at 157 compared to 153 year-on-year. However, 39 new reportable short positions have been reported since December alone. So the hedge funds are shifting their bets. “Restructuring cases and overvalued shares are the main shorts,” observes Volker Brühl, Managing Director of the Center for Financial Studies at Frankfurt’s Goethe University.

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