US-based Hindenburg Research, known for its controversial short-selling practices, is shutting down operations. The closure has raised questions about the firm’s practices, its impact on markets, and the possible reasons behind this sudden move.

Hindenburg Research, known for targeting Adani Group in 2023 and causing a $140 billion loss in market value, is winding down. Despite facing backlash and stirring controversy, it uncovered corporate fraud globally,

Hindenburg Research, the influential short-selling firm that rattled global markets with high-profile exposés of companies like Adani Group and Nikola Corp., announced its closure Wednesday after a seven-year run that reshaped modern activist investing.

Hindenburg Research, a US investment research firm known for short-selling, and whose reports resulted in wiping out billions of dollars of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and his companies, has been shut down,