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Chanos Goes 5 for 6 in Spring Short Calls
Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - 9:43am | 1221Read More...Back in April 2012, the founder of hedge fund Kynikos Associates Jim Chanos gave a presentation at Grant's Spring Conference outlining "Global Value Traps." His presentation discussed a number of secular trends and then offered up a variety of short stock ideas based on these trends. The...
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Chanos Says Hewlett-Packard Is The Ultimate Value Trap For Investors
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 12:44pm | 95Read More...Kynikos Associates' Jim Chanos just told the audience at the Delivering Alpha conference that Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) is the ultimate value trap. Chanos says Hewlett-Packard is destroying value through all its acquisitions among other things. Chanos was turned onto Hewlett-Packard after it...
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Noted Short-Seller Jim Chanos Betting Against Fortescue
Friday, April 27, 2012 - 12:40pm | 420Read More...Hedge fund manager and prominent short-seller, Jim Chanos, founder of Kynikos Associates, presented his short thesis on an iron ore miner at Grant's Spring Conference earlier this month. The company that Chanos is targeting is Perth, Australia-based Fortescue Metals Group (ASX:FMG). The company,...
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Jim Chanos: Value Traps
Monday, October 17, 2011 - 3:00pm | 850Read More...Jim Chanos of Kynikos Associates, is speaking at the Value Investing Congress, and he is talking about value traps and how to identify them. Some of the ways to spot value traps are that the company appears to be using management metrics, not conventional metrics. It could have marquis or famous...
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Apparently Some Of The Super-Wealthy Agree With Occupy Wall Street
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 4:57pm | 641Read More...According to a recent recent Bloomberg article, some notable members of the super-wealthy are sympathetic to the Occupy Wall Street movement (at least if you take their word for it). Hedge fund big wig (and China bear) Jim Chanos, founder of $6 billion Kynikos Associates, told Bloomberg that New...
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Kynikos Associates Discloses Holdings in 13F
Monday, August 15, 2011 - 12:04pm | 88Read More...New Companies: Deere (NYSE: DE) JC Penney (NYSE: JCP) Saks (NYSE: SKS) Disposes Entire Stake: PowerShares QQQ Trust (NASDAQ: QQQ) SemiLEDs (NASDAQ: LEDS) The Shaw Group (NYSE: SHAW) Veeco Instruments (NASDAQ: VECO)
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Chanos Says First Solar's Shine Is Dimming Considerably
Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 12:43pm | 474Read More...Noted short seller and sometimes uber-bear Jim Chanos of Kynikos Associates spoke at the Ira Sohn Conference yesterday, and said that the alternative energy sector, particularly wind and solar, are shorts, and he gave a rather scathing review of First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR). Chanos said that...
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Bloomberg Television: Jim Chanos Talks About The China Bubble
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 12:07pm | 1430Read More...Legendary short seller Jim Chanos of Kynikos Associates appeared on Bloomberg Television this afternoon with Carol Massar and Matt Miller. Chanos said that his "dramatic" bet against Chinese real estate may not be bearish enough and that "the bubble is really on the other side of the world."...
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China – A Treadmill to Hell, Says Jim Chanos
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 10:09am | 512Read More...Almost every active investor knows that Jim Chanos of Kynikos Associates, is predicting a real estate collapse in China. There's been a number of articles written about it here at Benzinga. Chanos has been very vocal about it, calling China, “Dubai times a thousand,” etc. However, after...
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Jim Chanos Continues To Warn Of Chinese Real Estate Bubble
Friday, April 9, 2010 - 12:27pm | 312Read More...Jim Chanos, noted short seller and founder of hedge fund Kynikos Associates, continues to pound the table about the coming collapse of the Chinese real estate market. In an interview with Charlie Rose, Chanos said that he believes the bubble will burst in late 2010 or early 2011. He said, "Supply...
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Chanos Warns of Chinese Bubble (JJC)
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 - 12:50pm | 120Read More...James Chanos of Kynikos Associates, who has been bearish on China for a long time now, is predicting a Chinese downturn after "excessive" investment in both residential and commercial property. Chanos, after observing unusually high prices in iron ore and copper, delved deeper to see where it was...
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Bullish On Cisco (CSCO): Chanos Tells CNBC
Friday, February 5, 2010 - 12:59pm | 108Read More...James Chanos, famous contrarian investor and owner of hedge fund Kynikos Associates, shared his investment thoughts with CNBC. He likes Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and said that the company accurately forecasted the extent of technology upgrades. He praised Cisco CEO John Chambers for his foresight. On...
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Contrarian Investor Jim Chanos Predicts Chinese Economic Crash (ENE)
Monday, January 11, 2010 - 8:17am | 256Read More...James C Chanos, who started the Kynikos Associates investment firm, is of the opinion that China is building a number of assets bubbles and will collapse. He is therefore bearish on China’s stocks as compared to investors of the likes of Warren Buffett and Wilbur Ross Jr. who are very optimistic...
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Jim Chanos Says The Biggest Asset Bubble Is China
Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 9:01am | 111Read More...Kynikos Associates' Jim Chanos said this morning on CNBC and yesterday to Politico that the biggest asset bubble that he sees is China. Chanos said its the fixed income asset bubble in China. "If you thought Dubai was bad a couple years ago, we did, it has nothing on China," said Jim Chanos. Chanos...
