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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

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The Robinhood website home screen on a smartphone. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Restrictions on Robinhood traders are still tight and getting tighter throughout the day on Friday, now only allowing GameStop holders to buy a single additional share. The stock trading app has also expanded its list of restricted stocks from 13

The war between hedge funds and retail investors over shares of GameStop has one logical conclusion, according to executives and traders of a major Wall Street firm. Shares of GameStop, the videogame retailer, have climbed more than 900% since the start of the year after members of a Reddit community called WallStreetBets banded together in

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said Robinhood’s move to stop trading in certain speculative names was in the best interest of the company and its millions of users. “In order to protect the firm and protect our customers we had to limit buying in these stocks,” Tenev told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin Thursday evening. “Robinhood is

New York University finance professor Aswath Damodaran told CNBC on Thursday the trading frenzy in GameStop and AMC Entertainment shares do not change the companies’ fundamental problems and calls into question the long-term strategy for online investors who sparked the short squeeze in the stocks. Known as the “Dean of Valuation” for his company analyses, Damodaran

Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban told CNBC on Thursday he was worried about valuations across a range of asset classes and has adjusted his investment portfolio accordingly. “I hedged the heck out of my portfolio,” Cuban said on “Squawk Box.” He said near-zero interest rates from the Federal Reserve have helped lead to “speculation” across various

The wild trading involving GameStop shares presents a broader threat to the U.S. equity market, the chief securities regulator in Massachusetts told CNBC on Wednesday. “The marketplace should be a place where risk is taken, but not reckless risk and not a situation that undermines the system and that’s what we’re looking at here,” Massachusetts

A customer holds a GameStop shopping bag inside a store in San Francisco. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Wall Street has been watching GameStop in awe as a band of Reddit-obsessed retail investors managed to push the stock up 1,500% in two weeks, squeezing out short-selling hedge funds. A wave of at-home

JPMorgan Chase & Co. signage is illuminated at night at a bank branch in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., on Tuesday, July 10, 2017. JPMorgan Chase & Co. is scheduled to release earnings figures on July 13. Photographer: Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images JPMorgan Chase is taking a page from the digital disruptors. The biggest U.S. bank