{"id":17640,"date":"2018-10-08T16:32:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T16:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17640"},"modified":"2018-10-08T16:32:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T16:32:17","slug":"short-seller-compares-tesla-to-lehman-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17640","title":{"rendered":"Short seller compares Tesla to Lehman Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New York (CNN Business)<\/cite>David Einhorn, a prominent investor who has a big bet against Tesla&#8217;s stock, compared Tesla to Lehman Brothers &#8212; the investment bank that famously collapsed ten years ago &#8212;  in a letter to his fund&#8217;s shareholders Friday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In the letter, obtained by CNN Business, Einhorn wrote that there are &#8220;many parallels&#8221; to how Lehman executives behaved before its demise and what Tesla (<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=TSLA\">TSLA<\/a>) and CEO Elon Musk are doing now. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Lehman threatened short sellers who predicted that the stock would fall and also made comments about taking the company private, for example. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (CNN Business)David Einhorn, a prominent investor who has a big bet against Tesla&#8217;s stock, compared Tesla to Lehman Brothers &#8212; the investment bank that famously collapsed ten years ago &#8212; in a letter to his fund&#8217;s shareholders Friday.In the letter, obtained by CNN Business, Einhorn wrote that there are &#8220;many parallels&#8221; to how&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}