{"id":3183,"date":"2021-01-29T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/hedge-funds-and-other-short-sellers-have-lost-an-astounding-amount-betting-against-gamestop"},"modified":"2021-01-29T21:51:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T21:51:00","slug":"hedge-funds-and-other-short-sellers-have-lost-an-astounding-amount-betting-against-gamestop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/hedge-funds-and-other-short-sellers-have-lost-an-astounding-amount-betting-against-gamestop","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds and other short-sellers have lost an astounding amount betting against GameStop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GameStop trade has been a disaster for short-sellers: The stock has surged some 870% over the past week and was up as much as 11-fold compared to where it started last Friday.And while the traders on r\/wallstreetbets&#8212;the Reddit forum that kicked off the unlikely rally for GameStop stock&#8212;may be racking up profits, the damage is accumulating for short-sellers, the investors and hedge funds who bet against, or &#8220;short,&#8221; the stock. By Friday, short-sellers had lost $19.75 billion on GameStop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GameStop trade has been a disaster for short-sellers: The stock has surged some 870% over the past week and was up as much as 11-fold compared to where it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[27,29,41,37,28,227],"class_list":["post-3183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-stocks","tag-economy","tag-markets","tag-potus","tag-stock-market","tag-stocks","tag-u-s-stocks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}