Short-seller Carson Block on the other side of the Reddit, GameStop trading frenzy

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Recently day traders organising themselves on social media website Reddit united to drive up the shares of video-game store GameStop by around 400%. Short-sellers were estimated to have lost about $19bn on GameStop. Carson Block is a short-seller, investor and the founder of Muddy Waters Research speaks to BizNews partner Bloomberg about what he thinks has been going on in the markets. Block told editor at large Erik Schatzker He suspects hedge fund ‘co-orination’ over GameStop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
6 Feb 2021 11AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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