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January 25, 2021 06:00 pm

Go read this story about how r/WallStreetBets triggered a huge rise in GameStops stock price




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The market, like Soylent Green, is made of people. That’s never more clear than when there’s something bonkers happening — like what’s happened with video game retailer GameStop’s stock since last September. Back then, it was trading at around $6.68; by this morning, however, it was trading at $146.97. (Since that astounding high, it fell to $61.13 as of 12:26PM EST.) What happened?


For that, check out this wild story from Bloomberg, which reported exactly how the subreddit r/WallStreetBets grabbed hold of a huge opportunity — found, naturally, in the mass shorting of GameStop stock. As writer Brandon Kochkodin explains, the stage for the rise was set in 2019, when two important things happened. “One was Michael Burry — of Big Short...



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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/25/22248775/gamestop-stock-price-rise-bloomberg-wallstreetbets-subreddit

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