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Canaccord Genuity's Quest gets shorty...

Advising clients to sell shares is back in vogue among the more traditional stockbrokers.

A decade ago or so the blue chip brokers used to write all sorts of negative equity research about London-listed companies but then the thought police took control.

That left a bit of a gap for entreprenuerial activist short sellers, such as Muddy Waters and Viceroy Research, to carry out equity research and write highly critical pieces about listed companies - and sometimes their notes were provided to be accurate...