Carson Block

TAL Education (NYSE: TAL) shares are trading lower after the company reported it discovered employee wrongdoing in its internal auditing process, which accounts for 3-4% of the company's total estimated sales. The company suspects that the employee in question had conspired with external...

TAL Education Group (ADR) (NYSE: TAL) stock was plunging 10 percent oWednesday after short seller and Muddy Waters founder Carson Block called the company a fraud.  Tal has overstated its net income by more than 43 percent in its past two fiscal years, Block said, comparing the Chinese...

In case you missed it, here are some of Benzinga's top stories from Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. Short Sellers Keep Things Interesting For the second day in a row, a noted short seller went on the attack as Muddy Waters Research founder Carson Block took aim at OSI Systems, Inc (NASDAQ: OSIS)....

Notorious short seller and Muddy Waters Research Founder Carson Block has a new target: technology and medical supply company OSI Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSIS). In a new short film posted on the company’s website, Short says OSI is “rotten to the core” and has been artificially...

Neither Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) nor Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) are first-round drafts for Citi Research analyst Mark May, but if forced to pick one, he’d take Snap. Some might question the preference considering Twitter’s outperformance, but May is decisive, justifying his position by less...

Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Deep Throat. You know the names. Whether you consider them informants, patriots or glorified tattle-tales, whistleblowers have significantly impacted United States history. They‘ve alerted us to illegal or unethical activity in public and...

Short-seller Muddy Waters Research has a new target for its cynical trade strategy. The firm’s Carson Block announced a short position in Prothena Corporation PLC (NASDAQ: PRTA) Thursday on Bloomberg TV, prompting an immediate, 7-percent plunge. Prothena recovered nearly all of its losses but...

IN THE NEWS BENZINGA David Einhorn needs a new vision for General Motors Company (NYSE: GM). The Greenlight Capital founder suffered defeat at Tuesday’s annual meeting as shareholders rejected his Board nominees and proposal to establish two stock classes: Link Muddy Waters' Carson...

Muddy Waters' Carson Block is one of the most notable short-seller investors and appears to be building a case against Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP). By his own admission in late May, he isn't short Snap's stock "but might be" in the future if the company doesn't address his...

MoffetNathanson's Michael Nathanson was a guest on CNBC's "Squawk Box" segment on Wednesday to discuss a problem that plagues both Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) and Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP)'s stock: monetization. President Trump Isn't A Positive Nathanson said Twitter's platform isn't set up properly to be...

Asanko Gold Inc (NYSE: AKG) sunk 30 percent Wednesday on a Muddy Waters Capital report predicting an impending plunge to zero. “On the back of flawed geology, AKG made investments in Nkran, its satellite pits, and Esaase that we believe will never be recovered,” Carson Block,...

On May 25, 1931, the New York Stock Exchange delivered its first public report on the total number of shares sold short to that day, as well as that amount as a percentage of the total equity available on the market -- the short interest. On that day, the NYSE reported 5.6 million shorted shares,...

Muddy Waters' Carson Block is one of the most notable short-seller investors and one of the stocks on his watchlist as a potential target is Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP). Speaking as a guest on Wednesday's "Bloomberg Markets" segment, Block acknowledged he isn't currently short Snap "but might be" in the...

Carson Block, the founder and chief investment officer of Muddy Waters, was a guest on CNBC's "Squawk Box" segment Tuesday to talk about what appears to be an unpopular strategy among investors and fund managers — shorting stocks. Carson was quick to point out that assets under management for...