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Reddit traders will lose their war against short-sellers – here’s why

2021-01-29T20:13:43Z

3 min read

Hedge Funds GameStop View

Meet the trader behind the GameStop Reddit mania

By

Julia-Ambra Verlaine

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Gunjan Banerji

2021-01-29T18:19:41Z

8 min read

Trading Markets

Mark Mobius: ‘Excessive’ lending for short bets should be banned amid GameStop frenzy

2021-01-29T15:54:16Z

2 min read

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Mark Mobius

London Stock Exchange Group completes $27bn acquisition of Refinitiv

2021-01-29T15:08:24Z

1 min read

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US watchdog ‘closely monitoring’ market volatility to protect retail traders in wake of GameStop saga

By

Emily Nicolle

2021-01-29T14:59:20Z

2 min read

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Fidelity in talks with Starling Bank over £100m stake

By

Emily Nicolle

2021-01-29T14:57:40Z

2 min read

Fidelity Fintech Starling Bank

CEO of smartphone-based bank Starling, Anne Boden has resolved never to put the fintech firm up for sale, as she continues to angle towards an eventual IPO for the bank

BlackRock’s $3bn gain shows how GameStop could rally to ‘become like Tesla’

2021-01-29T14:53:25Z

3 min read

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BlackRock, the world's largest provider of exchange traded funds, was one of the big winners from GameStop's surging share price

Trading Places: Orcel nabs top spot at UniCredit, HSBC make senior appointments

2021-01-29T13:59:46Z

2 min read

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Bitcoin’s turn: Elon Musk updated his Twitter bio and triggered a surge in the crypto

2021-01-29T13:30:46Z

2 min read

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SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk updated his Twitter bio, to simply say, '#Bitcoin' at the end of a week thats seen battered stocks like GameStop surge over 1,600%, driven en-masse by retail online retail investors

Bank of America, JPMorgan dominate ranks of Europe’s top bond analysts

By

Paul Clarke

2021-01-29T12:46:20Z

3 min read

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Bank of America made a big showing in the annual rankings of top industry analysts

These hedge fund short bets could see ‘outsized moves,’ says Jefferies

2021-01-29T11:15:50Z

1 min read

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The GameStop saga, which has seen retail investors execute a so-called short squeeze on funds shorting the video game retailer, has led to the targeting of other stocks heavily shorted by hedge funds

Robinhood co-founder defends move to halt frenzied trades that sent GameStop soaring

2021-01-29T11:01:15Z

4 min read

Trading Markets Robinhood

Vlad Tenev, co-founder of trading app Robinhood, blamed 'misinformation' in the markets when he was put on the spot on 28 January over the commission-free firm's decision to halt trading, with questions raised over whether Robinhood was siding with Wall Street

Finance’s biggest players speak out in defence of Reddit traders and GameStop mania

By

Emily Nicolle

2021-01-29T10:52:19Z

1 min read

Hedge Funds Trading

US Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who sits on the House financial services committee, said trading apps such as Robinhood should face a hearing over a decision to block retail investors from purchasing stock

Libor trader Tom Hayes hits out at ‘traumatic’ sentence as he leaves prison after nearly six years

By

Lucy McNulty

2021-01-29T09:40:35Z

4 min read

Libor Trading Tom Hayes

Tom Hayes makes his statement to the press after his release from HMP Ford

Novavax vaccine’s 86% efficacy against new UK variant could be another shot in the arm

By

Emily Nicolle

2021-01-29T08:09:46Z

2 min read

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Fund managers eye ‘mis-pricing’ to scoop up stocks in GameStop market frenzy

2021-01-29T00:01:45Z

3 min read

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Some long-only fund managers are adopting a more long-term approach to the GameStop retail boom