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Short sellers are abandoning their positions as the market reaches new highs: Short interest in U.S. stocks fell to just 2.95% by the end of February, S&P Global Market Intelligence says. That’s down 45 basis points from the short interest level at the end of 2020 when it was 3.4%.…
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At 10am Eastern time today, Congress will be having its second hearing about the frenzy in GameStop Corp. shares that sent the stock up 1700% in January. This hearing is unlikely to affect the price of the stock much. Rather, it will dig into whether or not the trading system…
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GameStop Corp. soared in January as short sellers were squeezed by a legion of buyers from Reddit’s Wallstreetbets. The shorts had to buy in order to close out their positions and stanch the bleeding, driving the stock even higher. It seems they’ve learned their lesson. Short selling of GameStop shares…
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Call options covering four million shares in GameStop Corp. expired on Friday, and the stock dropped right on cue: A call option gives you the right to buy a stock at X price. For the market maker to be able to sell you that option without risking going broke, they…
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GameStop shares have been on a wild ride in recent days, mostly upward: Much of this is driven by a new turnaround plan by GameStop board member and Chewy founder Ryan Cohen, who aims to turn GameStop into an online-first retailer. But if this is such a game changer for…
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Ten years ago, when bitcoin was worth only $5 each, cryptocurrency proponent Max Keiser gave conspiracy theorist Alex Jones a laptop. It contained 10,000 bitcoin, which would now be worth over $500 million. That laptop has gone missing: Alex Jones, the founder of the right-wing media group Infowars, has revealed…
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The US government is selling its bitcoin…all $38,000 worth: Tucked away among the Ford, Dodge and Chevy sedans, the 12,000-gallon storage container and the inoperable Caterpillar tractor being auctioned off by the U.S. government is an unusual item: 0.7501 of a Bitcoin. The federal government did not reveal the source…
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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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