Tag: Gamestop
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As it prepares to IPO this week, Robinhood Markets, Inc. is facing several class action lawsuits from its users. Inside those lawsuits, an explosive claim: High level executives and employees of Robinhood and Citadel Securities were in contact around the time Robinhood restricted trades, according to the complaint. This lawsuit…
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Melvin Capital, among other hedge funds, has taken severe losses on bad bets in AMC, GameStop and others. They are now down by almost half: Melvin Capital Management, which lost more than $6 billion in January, is now down 46% for the year through June, the fund recently told investors.…
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Meme stock traders on Reddit and elsewhere love to hate Ken Griffin, CEO of Citadel LLC. The hedge fund and market maker manages over $34 billion and handles more US stock trades than anyone else. Many suspect it had a hand in Robinhood limiting buying in GameStop shares, which angered…
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On a side street at the southern tip of Manhattan, behind a long line of metal vehicle barriers, stands a tall glass building. Seventy-six stories up, a team of PhD’s tune computers to trade shares just a fraction of a second faster. This small, secretive firm accounts for at least…
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Hedge funds’ losses on meme stocks have reached staggering levels: Hedge fund losses since the start of the year from betting against just GameStop, AMC and Bed Bath & Beyond total more than $12bn, according to data group S3, while bets against a number of others have each run up…
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Hedge funds have been perfectly capable of blowing themselves up with common trades like shorting and selling call options. But with the epic rise of AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. stock, there lurks another potential danger for hedge funds. And this one could be worse than anything else we’ve seen. Aside…
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There have been a lot of winners in GameStop’s dizzying, over tenfold rise in the last year. An unlikely one is the Mormon Church, which made over $8 million on GameStop shares through its investment arm: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ play for stock in GameStop paid…
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It’s no secret that GameStop shares have gone vertical, up more than ten fold this year. Besides making millionaires of a lot of Redditors, this also lets GameStop sell more shares at high prices, enabling them to raise capital with ease. And raise they did, to the tune of $550…
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GameStop CEO George Sherman will be leaving the company soon, but not empty handed: As a condition of his exit, GameStop is speeding up the time frame for Sherman to receive the shares, generating the award. Sherman, who has been CEO since April 2019, forfeited $98 million worth of stock…
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Short sellers have abandoned the stock market after massive losses in GameStop shares, among others: According to data from Goldman Sachs, median short interest as a percentage of float across the S&P 500 has fallen to 1.6%, near the lowest reading since 2004. More here (see the April 19 post.)…
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Tremendous 