Robinhood co-founder and co-CEO Vlad Tenev speaks onstage during the TechCrunch Disrupt New York event on May 10, 2016. Noam Galai | Getty Images for TechCrunch The co-founder of Robinhood took to audio app Clubhouse on Sunday to defend the investment platform’s decision to restrict trading in GameStop and other volatile stocks. GameStop shares have
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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
U.S. stock index futures declined in overnight trading as a surge in speculative trading by retail traders continued to cause hedge funds to take off risk and worried investors about a market bubble. The losses build on last week’s decline, which was the worst for the market since October. Futures contracts tied to the Dow
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Biogen (BIIB) – The drugmaker’s shares jumped nearly 12% premarket on news that the Food and Drug Administration has extended the review period by three months for its experimental Alzheimer’s treatment aducanumab. Biogen is providing additional data to the FDA as part of
The Reddit forum WallStreetBets logo on a smartphone arranged in Sydney, Australia, on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. Brent Lewin | Bloomberg | Getty Images What’s next for the Reddit crowd? Wall Street seems unsure. The “blow-out-the-short-sellers game” is showing signs of exhaustion, but the ramifications are only just being felt. What traders can’t agree on is
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
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