By now, there's a good chance you've heard what's been happening withGameStop's stock surge. Majorly simplified: Everyman retail investors are using Reddit to spread the word and help boost the stock price of video game retailer GameStop (as well assome others), causing a few Wall Stree...
GameStop’s stock market explosion, explained The individual suing Gill, Christian Iovin, alleges Gill was illegally manipulating GameStop’s share price by encouraging his YouTube and Reddit audience to hold all their shares of GameStop, causing what’s called a “short squeeze” that artificial...
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Some Reddit users took advice from the "WallStreetBets" forum and made big money on GameStop stock. Now a 20-year-old college student who cashed in is using some of that newfound wealth for good, buying gifts for a children's hospital.
The stock is up more than 250 percent year to date, rising sharply last week afterGameStop announced Chewy CEO Ryan Cohenwas joining its board,CNBC reported. Short-seller Citron Research predicted the price would drop, but members of the Reddit board r/wallstreetbets, who had been generating...
GameStop's stock has surged nearly 700% in the past two weeks in a rally fueled by interest from amateur investors on Reddit, forcing hedge funds to retreat from heavy losses and sparking calls for scrutiny of the social media-driven trading frenzy. Trading in the...
That led some big financial institutions to “short” the stock, or bet on the price to fall. Investors on Reddit and other social-media portals have banded together in recent weeks to snap up shares of GameStop, AMC and other struggling chains. Some of the institutions that thought t...
AMC stock launched more than 300% higher on Wednesday — but then tumbled after-hours — in a chaotic day for a few heavily shorted stocks that have become a battleground for smaller investors and bigger ones betting those stocks will drop. The stratospheric rise and fall of those stocks, ...
Subreddit r/WallStreetBets has been the talk of the Internet this week, as its members have driven GameStop’s stock pricesfrom around $20 to over $300. The community brands itself as “like 4chan found a Bloomberg Terminal,” and as time has gone on, it’stargeted other unlikely stoc...
ET closing bell approached that trading of the stock was halted twice for volatility. Things only got more strange from there. People rushed to Reddit as the price shot up — you know, since this whole GameStop stock thing originated on the platform — and soon enough Reddit had crashed. ...