Investors occasionally scoop up shares of companies whose financial prospects appear dim. The consensus around such companies is that the shares should, if anything, fall further. But they suddenly ...

Krispy Kreme, Opendoor, Rocket and Kohl’s are merely the public face of a summer boom in bets by private traders.

CEO Kurt Wolf said he previously served on the board of GameStop with Pitney Bowes’ newly-minted CFO Paul Evans.

Short interest is the number of shares that have been sold short but have not yet been covered or closed out. Short selling is when a trader sells shares of a company they do not own, with the hope ...