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GameStop eyes bitcoin to ‘stay relevant’ after fending off hedge funds

Your guide to the week’s biggest fintech stories

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Keith Gill poses for a portrait at work station in his basement, where he works on his stock market picks and streams his YouTube videos.

E*Trade considers kicking meme-stock leader Keith Gill off platform

Morgan Stanley’s trading platform discusses concerns about possible manipulation in GameStop

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GameStop investors are ‘playing with fire’ say hedge funds

GameStop stock is skyrocketing after the return of ‘Roaring Kitty’

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Coinbase stock rockets amid a ‘short squeeze’: Is this a GameStop moment?

Short squeezes played an influential role in the 'meme stock' frenzy of early 2021 when stocks like GameStop and AMC made wild intraday moves

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Markets are changing, and investors need to understand how block trades really work

The retail trader army doesn’t understand dark pools

An SEC probe is not challenging the principle of dark pool trading, but a model that resulted in information transfer that violated market rules

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Rookie traders come to terms with their first market dive

All traders have to live through their first stock meltdown; the current one is a doozy

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GameStop rolls out digital wallet for NFT tokens and crypto

GameStop’s push into crypto comes as it mounts a turnaround effort led by the co-founder of pet-products retailer Chewy, Ryan Cohen, who became GameStop chair last year

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Robinhood sales drop 43% as users leave

The brokerage has been adding a range of new products in an attempt to build up its user base

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'There’s no reason why, sitting in their front room, a retail investor can’t engage with management'

Why retail investors piling into AGMs could turn into a ‘nightmare’ for companies

Hybrid AGMs, which emerged during lockdown, mean it is now easier for retail investors to participate

GameStop chair buys more shares, stock rises

Chewy co-founder Ryan Cohen began building a stake in the company in late 2020

Reddit’s meme-stock investors are turning to the bearish ‘dark side’

Known for phrases like #HODL and #ApesNotLeaving, the retail crowd is showing a different attitude compared to a year ago

Why GameStop investors are patiently waiting for a life-changing payday

The ‘Mother of All Short Squeezes’ adherents say GameStop shares will soar to unprecedented highs — thousands or perhaps even millions of dollars per share

The boss of the UK's leading digital wealth manager isn't a fan of meme stocks

Nutmeg CEO: ‘A lot of people will have their fingers burned with meme stocks’

Neil Alexander argues that Nutmeg should not be lumped in with the day trading apps made famous by US investors

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Red markets roil AMC, GameStop, and other meme stocks

The losses come almost exactly a year after individual investors banded together in online forums to push up prices, sparking parabolic gains

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The collision between social media and financial markets has been one of the most dramatic trends emerging from the pandemic

Hedge funds scour Reddit a year after GameStop: ‘It’s the tip of the iceberg of generational change’

'The retail crowd is like a pop group that was deemed a one-hit wonder, but unexpectedly continued to storm the charts with new hits’

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