A Little-Known Short Seller Flagged Nvidia’s China Ties Months Before The Jensen Huang Scandal

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and alleged Chinese spy Alice Huang.

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A small New York trading firm warned about Nvidia’s links to China, and about its chief executive’s closeness to a woman now accused of being a Chinese spy, months before the story became public. Almost nobody paid attention at the time.

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On May 13, Christian Lamarco, a 31-year-old stock researcher and trader, published a 40-page report on Nvidia. Most of it dealt with a dry but important question: was the chipmaker being honest about how much business it does in China?

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Tucked into the top of page 3 was a short paragraph with a very different tone. It cautioned about an “uncomfortably close relationship” between Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Alice Huang, who worked for Megaspeed, one of Nvidia’s biggest customers.

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The reaction was close to silence. Nvidia’s shares actually rose on the day the report came out. According to a report from New York Times, Lamarco says the little feedback he did get included one message calling him developmentally disabled and another telling him to “watch out”.

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He then started his own digging. He used paid expert networks, which are middlemen that link investors with company insiders, to speak…

Original source: https://www.timesnownews.com/world

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