Investors could point to any number of reasons behind the stock market’s neck-breaking rally. A rapid unwind in bearish wagers gone wrong should be near the top of the list. A Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Shares of Hertz (HTZ) and Avis Budget Group (CAR) plunged amid a broader car-rental sector retreat after extraordinary short-squeeze runs. The squeeze unwind reflects disconnected valuations, with ...

The coming year is the only one of the next four where stock investors should seriously consider following the old Wall Street adage: “Sell in May and go away.” I’m referring to the alleged seasonal ...

The crawl is already miserable before the real shock hits. Tight rock, cold water, deep drop-offs, and almost no room to move make the cave feel bad enough on their own. Then something alive appears ...

A highly shorted stock. A shrinking pool of shares available to trade. A price that keeps climbing. They’re the classic signs of a painful short squeeze, and they’ve rapidly come into view for Avis ...

A near doubling in Avis Budget Group’s stock in just two weeks is enough to get some analysts to say stop buying — but there are also “technical” reasons for those same analysts to warn investors not ...

Oilfield services firms face slowdown despite rising oil prices Middle East exposure leaves major service firms vulnerable Repair work could revitalize oilfield services demand March 27 (Reuters) - ...

Biotech and software are the two most heavily-shorted sectors, it seems The last thing investors are thinking about right now -- as Wall Street wrestles with surging oil prices -- is a short squeeze.

Managers are taking on broader responsibilities amid organizational flattening and efficiency pushes. This means less time for training junior employees — and an emphasis on hiring those with greater ...

An Editor at Large: Columnist Gerard Baker explains how the public started out opposing the conflict in Iran, in part because of the Trump administration's lack of rhetorical prowess, and how that ...

Have you ever stumbled across any of the things that you wrote as a teenager, poetry or short stories that you scribbled in the back of a notebook? Yeesh, that could be cringe. Well, the two guys at ...