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Renowned short-seller James Chanos says his only long position these days is in the power-grid build-out companies. But he has a caveat about other types of building.
"We're short construction companies that are still doing physical build-out of buildings, say, for example, in Las Vegas," the president and founder of Kynikos Associates told CNBC. "It's just a disaster, from a construction point of view."
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One of his favorite power-grid builders is Quanta Services [PWR
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