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Bin Li, CEO of Chinese electric vehicle start-up NIO Inc., celebrates after ringing a bell as NIO stock begins trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) at the NYSE in New York, September 12, 2018. Brendan McDermid | Reuters BEIJING — Chinese electric car start-up

In this photo illustration, the Robinhood application is displayed on an iPhone on December 17, 2020 in San Anselmo, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Small investors don’t appear to be punishing Robinhood too badly for the controversy surrounding GameStop last week, as the app remains the go-to place for retail clients to trade stocks.

Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., arrives at the Axel Springer Award ceremony in Berlin, Germany, on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz | Bloomberg | Getty Images Elon Musk came out as a believer in bitcoin on Friday — and now he’s doubling down. The billionaire Tesla boss

Workers stand at the port of Qingdao, Shandong province, China June 10, 2019. Reuters BEIJING — China is set to overtake the United States as the world’s largest economy a few years earlier than anticipated due to the coronavirus pandemic, analysts said. The U.S. reported last week that gross domestic product in 2020 contracted by

A GameStop Corp. store in Rome, Italy, on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. Alesia Pierdomenico | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hedge fund Melvin Capital Management lost 53% in January amid a record rally in GameStop and other stocks the fund was betting against, according to The Wall Street Journal citing people familiar with the matter. The

Andrew Left, founder and CEO of Citron Research Adam Jeffery | CNBC Citron Research, which was forced to close out its short position in GameStop amid a frenzy in retail buying, said Friday it will no longer publish short reports and instead will focus on long positions. “After 20 years of publishing Citron will no

GameStop mania took Wall Street by storm, thanks to a legion of retail traders glued to the WallStreetBets message board on Reddit. Shares of the struggling brick-and-mortar video game retailer skyrocketed 400% in the past week, closing out January with a whopping 1,625% gain. A band of amateur traders in WallStreetBets forum, whose members have

Steven A. Cohen Scott Eells | Bloomberg | Getty Images Steve Cohen, the founder of hedge fund Point72 and owner of the New York Mets, has deactivated his Twitter account after his family received threats this week amid the GameStop trading frenzy. “I’ve really enjoyed the back and forth with Mets fans on Twitter which

Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images These stocks are making some of the largest moves in midday trading: Mondelez International — Mondelez, which owns snack brands including Oreo and Ritz, dipped 2% despite reporting better-than-expected earnings. Modelez earned 67 cents per share, topping estimates by one cent, according to Refinitiv. Revenue came in at

The website of U.K. stock trading app Freetrade. Freetrade LONDON — British share trading app Freetrade told clients Friday that it had disabled purchases of U.S. stocks. Freetrade blamed the halt to U.S. stock purchases on a move by its currency exchange provider and their bank to limit the platform’s trading volume. Freetrade uses U.K.

People walk past a GameStop store in Midtown Manhattan on January 27, 2021 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images The astronomical rally in GameStop has imposed huge losses of nearly $20 billion for short sellers this year, but they are not budging. Short-selling hedge funds have suffered a mark-to-market loss of

Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Source: The New York Stock Exchange U.S. stock futures moved lower in overnight trading on Thursday, as Wall Street’s volatile week continued. Dow futures fell about 80 points. S&P 500 futures dropped 0.32% and Nasdaq 100 futures lost 0.30%. On Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial

Investor Peter Boockvar is calling the Reddit rebellion “another epic parabolic bubble.” In a research note out this week, he warns the mania into trades from GameStop to American Airlines will ultimately go bust. “Let’s break down the investment strategy: Find the most shorted stocks, buy calls, write about it, buy the stocks and jam it

A GameStop store in Hollywood, California, busy with customers waiting in line to enter the video game retailer on January 27, 2021. AaronP | Bauer-Griffin | GC Images | Getty Images Trading in GameStop has reached fever-pitched levels that shows little sign of breaking.  Despite the plunge in prices during Thursday’s session after several brokerages

From geopolitical tensions to the coronavirus pandemic and disputes over trade, modern life can often feel bewildering, insecure and disjointed. One area where there does seem to be some renewed sense of unity is the environment. Just last week, U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order to re-join the Paris Agreement on climate change,

Institutional Investor Hall of Famer Richard Bernstein warns retail investors will pay a big price for getting caught up in speculative trades. Bernstein, who has spent decades on Wall Street, cites the democratization of the market as a critical contributor to the excessive euphoria. He worries naiveté will ultimately put amateurs in difficult positions. “Bubbles show

Scott Mlyn | CNBC Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. GameStop — The gaming retailer’s shares continued their rally, as the stock price more than doubled to surpass $360, up 140%. Retail investors have been driving the share price higher, pushing back against short sellers. Melvin Capital, which was short GameStop, closed out

Goldman Sachs CEO David Michael Solomon attends a discussion on “Women Entrepreneurs Through Finance and Markets” at the World Bank on October 18, 2019 in Washington, DC. Olivier Douliery | AFP | Getty Images Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon saw his pay slashed by just over a third for 2020 as part of a punishment

Dado Ruvic | Reuters Futures contracts tied to the major U.S. equity indexes ticked higher during the overnight session Tuesday as Wall Street pored over earnings results from Microsoft and awaited similar updates from Apple, Facebook and Tesla due Wednesday. Nasdaq-100 futures outperformed with a gain of about 67 points, or 0.5%. Dow futures held

A General Electric (GE) sign is seen at the second China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai, China November 6, 2019. Aly Song | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. General Electric — Shares rose nearly 4% after General Electric’s industrial free cash flow came in better than expected for the