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Ryan Hogg

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Hedge funds paying for literally insane short on u k stocks - The Untold Story

City of London financial district with Royal Exchange building, London, England, UK (Credit: Alexander Spatari—Getty Images)

There’s no two ways about it. For American investors, the U.K. stock market hasn’t exactly been the place to be, with underperforming indices and a troubling dearth of new listings in the last few years. 

There are reasons for that, from lower liquidity to the country’s relative inability to scale tech companies. But it’s possible to take Britain-bashing too far, as some Wall Street bears are discovering. 

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