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Short Sellers in Danger of Extinction After Crushing Stock Gains

The business of betting on stock declines is shrinking as bearish investors face threats on all sides.

Illustration: Maxime Mouysset

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Jim Chanos quit after failing to raise capital. Carson Block’s firm launched its first long-only fund. Andrew Left dubbed his kind “a dying breed.”

These are bad times to be a bear on Wall Street.