The e-commerce giant dethroned Elon Musk’s car company Thursday as the most heavily shorted stock as shares climbed above $2,000 for the first time. Less than one week after Tesla CEO Elon Musk ended his bid to take the electric-car company private, Amazon has passed it as the most-shorted US stock. Short interest in Amazon climbed to $9.97 billion on Friday, according to data from S3 partners, passing the $9.83 billion in bets against Tesla’s stock, which for months has been the most-shorted name in the market. …read more
Source:: Yahoo Finance