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How the mother of all 'short squeezes' helped drive stocks to historic gains Wednesday

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Traders piled on a record number of short bets against the U.S. stocks ahead of Wednesday 's rally.

Hedge funds were forced to buy back their borrowed stocks rapidly in order to limit their losses.

With this artificial buying force pushing it higher, the S&P 500 ended up with its third -biggest gain since WWII .

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