short seller

American  

noun

Finance.

1. a person, as a speculator, who sells short.

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• short selling
  noun

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short seller

A famed short seller increased his bets against the AI boom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

French technology group 2CRSi’s stock tumbled more than 40% after accusations from a New York–based short seller — panicking retail investors in France, who sold other unrelated companies in the space.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026

Andrew Left, 55, a short seller, was convicted by a federal jury in Los Angeles of securities fraud.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

While Palantir’s high valuation has attracted skeptics including short seller Michael Burry— the Big Short posted that Anthropic was “eating Palantir’s lunch” in a deleted social-media post Thursday—Wedbush’s Dan Ives called that a “fictional narrative.”

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

Short selling does become a wrong when and to the extent that the methods and intent of the short seller are wrong.

From The New York Stock Exchange and Public Opinion Remarks at Annual Dinner, Association of Stock Exchange Brokers, Held at the Astor Hotel, New York, January 24, 1917 by Kahn, Otto Hermann