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AMC’s CEO Apparently Didn’t Bother to Put on Pants for This YouTube Interview

AMC is the latest meme stock darling for hordes of online investors, and CEO Adam Aron has been leaning heavily into the company’s newfound virality. However, I doubt he ever expected to become a meme himself, as was the case this week after he appeared to be pantless during a live interview with a YouTuber.…

Internet Alyse Stanley

AMC Belongs to the People Now

We’re nearly halfway through the year and it looks like the meme stocks haven’t ended their run just yet: As of Wednesday, shares of movie theater chain AMC Entertainment were up as much as 3,200 on the heels of a newly launched initiative to provide free popcorn to shareholders. AMC’s stock price nearly doubled on…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano

Robinhood Has Privately Filed to Go Public

Commission-free stock trading app Robinhood said that it had confidentially filed for an initial public offering on Tuesday, apparently ready to capitalize on all of the positive buzz surrounding democratized finance. After Bloomberg first reported the news, Robinhood confirmed in a statement that it had submitted its filing U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. A person…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano

WallStreetsBets Is Sending Gorilla Conservation to the Moon 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

The WallStreetBets subreddit has helped drive $383,000 in donations to a gorilla conservation organization this week. The preceding sentence would have been barely intelligible even just last December, and yet here we are. To quickly recap: In January, folks on the subreddit r/WallStreetBets captured headlines for buying up shares in GameStop’s stock as well as other oft-memed…

Earther Dharna Noor

Federal and State Regulators Probe Robinhood Over Meme Stock Trading Restrictions

U.S. regulators are investigating Robinhood after it temporarily blocked users from purchasing so-called meme stocks on its stock trading app amid the Reddit-fueled short squeeze earlier this year. Robinhood has received inquiries from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Examinations, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and the New York Attorney General’s Office, among…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

Bots Reportedly Helped Fuel GameStonks Hype on Facebook, Twitter, and Other Platforms

The s0-called GameStonks saga had some help from automated bots hyping up “meme” stocks on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, according to an analysis by the cybersecurity firm PiiQ Media reviewed by Reuters. Users on the Reddit forum r/WallStreetBets teamed up last month to trigger a massive short squeeze of GameStop stock in a coordinated…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

GameStop’s Doing a Thing Again

GameStop, little diva that she is, is in the spotlight once more after shares of the company skyrocketed more than 100% on Wednesday. In the last 30 minutes of the day’s trading, the American video game retailer’s shares were up by a whopping 103.9% — a shocking rally that resulted in trading on the company’s…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano

Barclay’s Analysts Bet Tesla Stock Is Being Propped Up By r/WallStreetBets

Tesla might be the beneficiary of the GameStonks effect, at least according to analysts for the British bank and investment firm Barclay’s. CNBC reported that Barclay’s told clients in a note on Tuesday that Tesla shares—which hit a peak of nearly $900 a share in January and are now hovering around $680—appear to be at…

Tech News Tom McKay

I Waited Five Hours for AOC to Ask the Robinhood Guy a Question, and This Is What I Got

Those of us who sat through yesterday’s five-and-a-half-hour House Committee on Financial Services hearing on the GameStop short squeeze had maybe, foolishly, hoped against hope to see some cold hard accountability. We came to hear Robinhood’s CEO explain why, at the peak of the GameStop run, the trading app shut out its users from buying…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

How to Watch the Robinhood Congressional Hearing

More real-time WallStreetBets drama, the David and Goliath tale of class and meme warfare that has it all, will unfold before our very eyes today in a Congressional hearing at noon, ET. Possibly aware that at least two forthcoming movies and two TV shows need some good material, the House Committee on Financial Services has…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

YouTube, Reddit User ‘Roaring Kitty’ Gets Sued for Securities Fraud Over GameStop Short Squeeze

Keith Gill, also known as “Roaring Kitty” on Twitter/YouTube and “DeepFuckingValue” on Reddit, is facing a proposed class action lawsuit for his role in the massive GameStop short squeeze orchestrated by Reddit’s r/WallStreetBets board, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. According to Bloomberg, the suit was filed by Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, a securities class action firm,…

Tech News Tom McKay

CEOs of Robinhood and Reddit to Testify in Federal GameStop Hearing

The House Financial Services Committee will hold a virtual hearing on Feb. 18 as part of its investigation into the coordinated effort by Reddit’s stock-trading community to drive up the price of GameStop stocks as a big middle finger to hedge fund managers. The witness list includes some of the key players involved in the…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

Wall Street Fund Wants to Hire r/WallStreetBets Users to Help Pick Meme Stocks

GameStop’s stock has fallen back to something like a reasonable price and Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy claims he lost about $700,000, but the future of meme stocks is not yet written. And at least one New York-based quantitative fund seems to think there’s still a glimmer of gold to be found in the brain…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Robinhood Sued by Family of College-Aged Investor Who Took His Own Life

The family of a 20-year old man who took his own life over the summer after he misread his investment balance on Robinhood on Monday filed a lawsuit against the brokerage app. In June 2020, Alex Kearns was a 20-year-old sophomore at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln when he checked his Robinhood financial statement…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano

Robinhood: So About That Whole GameStonks Thing…

The self-proclaimed democratic financial app Robinhood came under fire on Thursday for temporarily halting trading on GameStop stocks and other stocks favored by Reddit’s WallStreetBets community. But while critics accused the stockbroker of foiling amateur investors to shield major Wall Street firms from mounting losses, Robinhood claims the real explanation is much more boring: It…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

Current Status of WallStreetBets’s GameStop Run: 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

The current scoreboard on the Reddit meme stock war here. Reddit: 1, Hedge Fund Antagonists: 0. Citron Capital and Melvin Capital—the latter, the main loser in the massive inflation of GameStock prices, thanks to the subreddit WallStreetBets—have reportedly pulled out of their short positions in GameStock. Meaning that the hedge funds have accepted the losses…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

AMC’s CEO Apparently Didn’t Bother to Put on Pants for This YouTube Interview

AMC Belongs to the People Now

Robinhood Has Privately Filed to Go Public

WallStreetsBets Is Sending Gorilla Conservation to the Moon 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

Federal and State Regulators Probe Robinhood Over Meme Stock Trading Restrictions

Bots Reportedly Helped Fuel GameStonks Hype on Facebook, Twitter, and Other Platforms

GameStop’s Doing a Thing Again

Barclay’s Analysts Bet Tesla Stock Is Being Propped Up By r/WallStreetBets

I Waited Five Hours for AOC to Ask the Robinhood Guy a Question, and This Is What I Got

How to Watch the Robinhood Congressional Hearing

YouTube, Reddit User ‘Roaring Kitty’ Gets Sued for Securities Fraud Over GameStop Short Squeeze

CEOs of Robinhood and Reddit to Testify in Federal GameStop Hearing

Wall Street Fund Wants to Hire r/WallStreetBets Users to Help Pick Meme Stocks

Robinhood Sued by Family of College-Aged Investor Who Took His Own Life

Robinhood: So About That Whole GameStonks Thing…

Current Status of WallStreetBets’s GameStop Run: 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

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