Investors increased their short bets on several energy- and electric-vehicle-related stocks during the last two weeks of January. The broader market has continued to run ahead this year, but stocks fell on Tuesday after hotter-than-expected inflation data for January lowered expectations for rate cuts. The S&P 500 index lost 1.7% this week, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.4%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell more than 2% during this period. Against this market backdrop, CNBC Pro analyzed FactSet data for the stocks trading on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Exchange with the shortest interest as of January 31. These stocks have at least $100 million in market capitalization and short interest represents at least 25% of their total float, or the amount of outstanding shares available to trade. See below for names of heavily shorted stocks. There is a significant amount of short interest in B. Riley Financial amounting to 62.8% of the stock’s float, or 10.4 Million shares as of January 31. The company’s shares have fallen more than 55% over the past year. The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday B. Riley’s problematic bet on acquiring Franchise Group. B. Riley shares were down nearly 9% on Tuesday. RILY 1D mountain B. Riley Financial Stock Performance Fears of an EV slowdown have also spread across the market, with short interest continuing in EV maker Fisker and EV charging equipment service provider Blink Charging. Fisker has seen continued short interest for several weeks now. During the second half of January, short interest remained stable, but still amounted to 53.5% of the company’s share float. Shares of the electric vehicle company have fallen more than 55% this year. Short interest represents nearly a third of Blink Charging’s total share float. Bets against solar energy company SunPower and hydrogen fuel cell system developer Plug Power have also grown over this period, particularly as renewable energy companies continue to struggle with project financing in a low-rate environment. of higher interest. Short-term interest in SunPower jumped to about 34.7 million shares, or about 40% of its float, while Plug Power saw its short-term interest during the period amount to about 34% of its floating. SunPower shares are down 25% this year, while Plug Power has lost more than 8%.