'Big Short' Burry sells all but a single stock on dead cat bounce fears

$3.3m position in private prison group

James Baxter-Derrington
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Manager of Scion Asset Management Michael Burry, the hedge fund investor immortalised by Michael Lewis' The Big Short, has sold every position he owns except a single stake in a private prisons operator.

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