For Short Sellers Haunted by Retail Boom Asia Is The Place to Be
- Basket of Asia’s most-shorted stocks is underperforming peers
- Retail traders in region tend to stick to their home markets
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Asia’s short sellers can rest easy, as they look largely free from attack unlike peers in the U.S. where retail investors have banded together to squeeze out bearish bets.
An equal-weighted basket of the 30 MSCI Asia Pacific Index members with the highest short interest has declined about 1% in the past month through June 8, underperforming the benchmark by two percentage points, according to calculations by Bloomberg using IHS Markit data. In contrast, the most-shorted American stocks have surged in the past month.