Jim Chanos Buys Amazon, Visa, Mastercard and McDonald’s

Jim Chanos’ hedge fund Kynikos Associates has filed its 13-F for the quarter ending December 31 2012. The fund has a much smaller amount of its assets in long equity as it often focuses much more on shorts. Chanos famously shorted Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) in 2012. A look at a disclosure of European equity shorts shows that none of the company’s position qualify, so it probably isn’t currently short in European equity. At the end of 2012, the company’s biggest long holding was in the United States Natural Gas Fund, LP (NYSEARCA:UNG). The firm’s holding in the natural gas price index,…