Bronte Capital

I accepted an invite on LinkedIn from a finance student at an Australian University.
Nothing unusual about that.
Said finance student then decided to pitch me a short idea in this case in the hope of getting an internship.

Grenke is a Geman listed (but global) equipment leasing company who has been subject to a short-seller research report (which Grenke supporters call an attack).
Grenke was late to publish an annual report, but they indicated to the market a date in May (today!) when the annual report would be published....

Google Trends doesn't predict stock market rallies, well somtimes it does. But more likely it is coincident with them, the suckers at the end of the boom being the biggest (yet) wave of retail buyers.
Here is a five year trend for the phrase "how to buy stocks" for the USA....

Australia has several jurisdictional issues that make it a haven for corporate criminals. These features are sometimes for better, sometimes for worse, but they leave the securities regulator with a task considerably harder than any similar sized country...