Third Point Reports 8.24% Stake In Herbalife, Stock Soars As Shorts Pummeled

As we warned on December 26, when the stock was trading in the mid 20's the pain for shorts is horrible and getting worse (courtesy of the best and always absolutely certain contrarian signal - the involvement of Whitney Tilson) and is about to send the stock into the stratosphere following a very surprising announcement by none other than Bill Ackman buddy Dan Loeb, who just filed a 13F reporting a 8.24% passive stake in Herbalife sending the stock surging. In other news: this may be Herbadeath for Whitney Tilson, who may well be on track to blow up a second fund in under a year. From the 13G Amount beneficially owned:   8,900,000 shares. The Reporting Persons share voting and dispositive power over the shares held directly by the Funds, but no Fund individually holds greater than 5% of the outstanding Common Stock of the Issuer. Each of the Reporting Persons disclaims benefi...