Tag: Investing
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For many years, investors in stocks have been able to see how volatile the market is expected to be by relying on a gauge called the CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX. This measure, often called the “fear gauge,” reads how much volatility investors are expecting based on option prices. Nothing…
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With the House about to approve another $1.9 trillion in stimulus, the final hurdle before the legislation is signed by President Biden, I found myself wondering what this means for shares in GameStop and other meme stocks. Those stocks took off big time in January, as personal income increased 10%…
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GameStop shares are surging again today, even as the company is losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year. The stock is reacting to Chewy founder Ryan Cohen beginning a push to transform GameStop into an e-commerce business. But it still has 5,000 stores that were losing a fortune even…
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GameStop Corp. shares are surging today and are currently up over 30%: Chewy co-founder and GameStop board member Ryan Cohen is taking a bigger role, which is driving today’s gains: GameStop Corp. shares extended their rally after the company tapped Chewy.com founder Ryan Cohen to guide its transition to an…
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I came across a shocking fact this morning: 28% of Americans bought a meme stock like GameStop or AMC in January: Over a quarter of American adults say they bought GameStop (GME) or another viral stock in January, according to a new survey from Yahoo Finance and The Harris Poll.…
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We are seeing strong options activity on Palantir Technologies, Inc., which is a darling of the Reddit crowd: On CNBC’s “Options Action,” Mike Khouw said about 610,000 contracts traded in Palantir Technologies Inc on Wednesday and calls outpaced puts by about three to one. The most active calls were the…
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Stock mania has gripped the US throughout the year. And now it’s spreading to Asia, where trading volumes are rising far faster than even in the US: The value of stock trades matched on exchanges, in what is known as electronic order-book trading, gives a sense of the trend. Such…
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Congress is investigating whether traders on Reddit’s Wallstreetbets colluded to drive up the price of GameStop, possibily illegally. But two major legal precedents are on the side of Wallstreetbets: In the DRW case, the CFTC argued the defendants’ orders for a swap contract were “inherently manipulative” because the defendants “understood…
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As Rocket Companies jumped over 70% yesterday, short sellers are feeling the pain: A surge in the shares of U.S. mortgage provider Rocket Companies on Tuesday is estimated to have inflicted losses of $813 million on short-sellers, data from financial analytics firm Ortex showed. More here. Given that this is…
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I came across an interesting stat today: the estimated value of all the gold in the world is $7.5 trillion. Gold and bitcoin are often compared as stores of value with a limited supply. What if bitcoin became as widely accepted and highly valued as gold? At the current market…
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