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Gensler to leave SEC in January

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2024
... President-elect Donald Trump's swearing in ceremony. Gensler joined the commission in April 2021 in the immediate aftermath of the GameStop short squeeze. He was confirmed in the role by the US Senate and was to serve a five-year term through to 2026. ...

Young, bullish online investors drive trading: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2024
... 152,000 during the period. Global stocks now comprise 8% of investor portfolios on average. According to Selfwealth data, GameStop was the most-traded stock in May, followed by Faraday Future Intelligent Electric, Tesla, and Nvidia. The GameStop-inspired ...

Most traded US stocks revealed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2024
... online forum Reddit. The most well-known example, and the most-traded US share in the Selfwealth community last month, was GameStop (NYSE: GME). During the pandemic, GME was the most held US stock on the Selfwealth platform, before its popularity faded ...

Social media, news addiction cost returns: Morningstar

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2024
... best days. The consequence is material forgone returns, despite best intentions to outsmart the market," Hodge said. The GameStop furore in early 2021 underscored the formidable influence of social media platforms on share prices thanks to retail investors ...

Regulators fret over hobby traders

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2022
Globally, securities regulators are concerned about the boom in retail trading markets and are joining forces to address the issue. The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published a consultation paper on retail market ...

Data shows WallStreetBets created losses

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 13 JAN 2022
... and in one out of four times, monthly losses amounted to over 10%. Early on in 2021, WSB hit headlines for driving the GameStop share price up. However, this data suggests that influence was not replicated across other stocks repeatedly mentioned on ...

Chief economist update: Nikkei not so fine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2021
... and stockmarket pricing has led to growing criticism that the Bank of Japan (BOJ) is distorting market pricing. Forget Gamestop and Reddit, the BOJ is the bigger player that's gaming the system. This disconnect is highlighted by the breakdown in ...

Chief economist update: Overvaluation tests FOMO and TINA trades

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
... reported recently to be effective against the new strain. Retail investors' revolt aside, the on-going "play" on Gamestop and other shorted names will eventually stop. At the end of the day, it's the fundamentals that'll matter. And oh, valuation ...

Investors going in blind: Research

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021
... to buy a house. The research comes as a surge of activist investors have pushed the share price of US-based retailer Gamestop over 600% in the last week in a bid to short-squeeze hedge funds. The amateur investors, using the Reddit forum WallStreetBets ...
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