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How Prevalent Are Short Squeezes? Evidence From the US and Europe

Harvard Corporate Governance

A short squeeze is triggered if there is pressure on short sellers to cover their positions because of a sharp price increase or a recall of borrowed shares. This drives short sellers to close their positions early. more…)

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The Storming of the Bastille: The Reddit Crowd targets the Hedge Funds!

Musings on Markets

but in the process, driven some of the hedge funds that have sold short on these companies to edge of oblivion. This is a “short” sale, and if you are right and the stock price drops, you can buy the shares at the now "discounted" price, return them to the original owner and keep the difference as your profit.

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Wachtell Lipton Puts Spotlight on Boards: Spring 2022 Update

Reynolds Holding

Boards should: Maintain a working partnership with the CEO and management and serve as a resource for management in charting the appropriate course for the corporation; Set the “tone at the top” to create a corporate culture that not only gives priority to ethical standards, professionalism, integrity and compliance in setting and implementing both (..)

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Investment Banking Fitness: How to Stay in Shape While Working 105 Hours per Week

Brian DeChesare

If you’ve been reading this site for a long time, you probably thought that I’d never return to the topic of investment banking fitness. The short answer is that physical fitness makes a huge difference because your health affects everything else in your life. After all, what’s different? I can always recover later.”.

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The Consumer Retail Investment Banking Group: King of the Generalists?

Brian DeChesare

But most auto component companies are smaller and less capitalized and could easily get squeezed due to inflation in raw material prices. If you want examples, take a look at a few from Goldman Sachs and Centerview : The differences lie in the metrics and the increased importance of certain topics, such as lease accounting.

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A Business Upended: Streaming disrupts the Entertainment Business!

Musings on Markets

Through this period, t he big studios still controlled a large share of the content business, but independent studies, often more daring in choice of topics and settings, took a share. That said, the movie business remained concentrated, with the biggest players dominating each segment of the business.

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Wachtell Lipton Discusses Mergers and Acquisitions–2022 and 2023

Reynolds Holding

Parties evaluating cross-border deals will fare better if they are well-prepared for the cultural, political, regulatory and technical complexity inherent in cross-border deals by engaging early and proactively with advisors on these topics. In the face of these dynamics, debt-fueled M&A activity suffered, as described above.

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