Tesla shorts take $3.5B hit after post-earnings rally: report

Visionkick/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images As EV maker Tesla ( NASDAQ: TSLA ) posted its second-biggest one-day rally thanks to its better-than-expected Q3 earnings, short sellers betting against the company took $3.5B in paper losses, Bloomberg News reported, citing data from S3 Partners. On Thursday, the Elon Musk-led company.