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Short Sellers Lose 5 Billion in US Stocks, 2023

FILE PHOTO: Traders work on the floor of the NYSE in New York

Once upon a time in the land of Wall Street, sellers of short stocks found themselves in a curious dilemma. The year? 2023. The circumstance? Well, the short sellers of US stocks found their pockets lighter by not a meager sum, mind you, but a whopping $145 billion!

You likely heard the digits echoing ominously through the sparkling skyscrapers, a resonant toll that left investors wide-eyed and Wall Street aflutter. The bearers of this intricate tale? None other than the diligent data-crunchers at Ortex.

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