Tuesday 1 September 2026
Featured investigation
Why betting against Australian housing keeps failing — negative gearing, the 1999 CGT switch, the buying power of four banks, and what Japan and China teach about the day it breaks.
4 interactive dashboards · 27 sources · 23 June 2026
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DroneShield and 4DMedical both file results within days, both carrying near-record short interest, and both saw bears cut in late July. One of them has already shown it will sit through a result without covering.
Australian house prices are no longer moving as one market. Sydney and Melbourne fell over the quarter while Perth, Brisbane and Darwin ran up 21–25% over the year — and for the first time in years, rent growth has converged with wage growth. Here is what the data actually shows.
24 August 2026
Six weeks after the Hormuz escalation, short sellers have unwound almost every ASX energy position they held — except one. Woodside is now the only name in the complex bears are adding to, and it is the name they spent all year ignoring.
24 August 2026
Markets
A 20.7% share price rally over three months is forcing short sellers to trim their positions, raising questions of a classic short squeeze.
12 July 2026
Healthcare
A twenty-four-fold run to A$7.55 took 4DMedical into the ASX 200. The halving since has drawn short sellers from zero to a record 11.3% in months.
21 June 2026
Markets
When the ASX fell 36% in five weeks in 2020, short interest across the market barely moved — a decade of ASIC data says the crash-driving short seller is mostly a myth.
21 June 2026
Mining & Resources
Pilbara Minerals was the ASX's most-shorted stock for years — a proxy bet against collapsing lithium. The 2026 price spike squeezed the bears out; now, at 10% short, they're creeping back.
18 June 2026
