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GameStop's Stock Surges & The Pandemic Sparks a "Baby Bust" Season 26 E 48 • 01/27/2021 Reddit users wreak havoc on Wall Street, America's birth rate takes a dive during the COVID-19 crisis, and no players are inducted into the 2021 Baseball Hall of Fame. Wall Street Halts the GameStop Rally. Suddenly, you’re in the hole. That’s not really how it works. Watch Doug Henwood talk with the Daily Show’s Trevor Noah about GameStop, the lies companies like Robinhood tell about their “democratic” empowerment of small investors, and why the absurdities and inefficiencies of Wall Street are a “racket.”. Totally. Should the stock exchanges step in? This episode contains strong language.GameStop can feel like a retailer from a bygone era. And at one point, I see this post that says, “Hello, my favorite paste-eating, rocket-posting children. Total confusion. That people don’t trust it. That this isn’t an investment about making a profit in that way. Mhm. But Andrew, wasn’t that the point, to make a bunch of well-off financial types shake in their boots and to show them that there is a new power dynamic? It’s full of these, essentially, day traders — people that trade small amounts of stocks, big amounts of stocks. The announcement sent shares of GameStop, up 850% this year, down 8% at the opening bell. Maybe it’s one day, maybe it’s a couple of hours. And so I think finally they felt a little taste of victory. GameStop stock is up 1,700% since January 1 in run that hurt short sellers Hedge funds Citron and Melvin Capital likely lost billions as the shares rose But GameStop… And as the stock is peaking, all of these people are hopping into online chat rooms. That Wall Street is broken and unfair. And what has a lot of people fearful is that the game is far from over. This episode contains strong language.GameStop can feel like a retailer from a bygone era. And to many, of course, it seemed like Wall Street was striking back, protecting itself at the expense of the small investor. A sense of what is happening here. Nowhere can this be felt more than in the WallStreetBets and GameStop saga. A legion of young people — primarily male — have been pouring into digital trading floors for years, raised on social media and eager to teach themselves about stocks. Season 26 E 49 • 01/28/2021. Right. So this sparks this online war, where this community on the internet is basically trying to get the stock as high as it can go and also is kind of gamifying it. Remember, there are a number of investors here who have borrowed money to invest. Those guys were incredible stock pickers. It’s the people. Right. Here’s how. Hosted by Michael Barbaro; produced by Stella Tan, Jessica Cheung, Alexandra Leigh Young and Asthaa Chaturvedi, with help from Diana Nguyen; edited by Dave Shaw and Lisa Tobin; and engineered by Chris Wood. So far, the Redditors are succeeding, according to CNBC. Mhm. Should regulators step in? We the people can say what the company is worth. I’m Michael Barbaro. The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. As noted by The Wall Street Journal on Thursday morning, GameStop “retailer shares soared last month to above $480, from $18.84 at the start of 2021. Graphic detail. So why GameStop? So we did this proactively. And profit, if it does, in fact, go down. This is about making a profit to demonstrate that they can manipulate the system as well if not better than the professionals. Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcast | Google. You know, I pushed him really hard on whether this was a genuine liquidity crisis. For the second weekend in a row, thousands of supporters of Alexei Navalny took to the streets of Russia to protest his detention in the latest show of disapproval for the country’s President, Vladimir Putin. Discover historical prices for GME stock on Yahoo Finance. Through collective action, they pushed GameStop’s stock price to previously unimaginable heights — up 1,700 percent from a month ago. Maybe throw $20 in, see where it goes, almost as a pastime. It’s currently valued at $10. It sounds very much like the story of 2021. About a week later, on January 20, it had risen to almost $40. Hold! And she wrote a letter to regulators where she spoke of what she called a, quote, “flash mob of money.” And she went on to write, “I am deeply concerned that these casino-like swings in the value of GameStop and other company shares are yet another example of the gamesmanship that interferes with the fair, orderly and efficient function of the market, raising obvious questions about public confidence in the market and those trading in it.”. of Robin Hood on exactly that. Vlad Tenev, is with us right now. And it seemed like at one point, every other post in the subreddit was about GameStop, or GME, which is the stock ticker. And that is something that I don’t think was ever on anybody’s radar screen. GameStop gets its own Pokemon card. As of this morning, shares of GameStop are valued at $325, a 1,700 percent increase from one month ago, but down from a high of $483 last week. Because the true answer was that Robinhood itself was worried that it was on the verge of collapse. I mean, the outrage was everywhere. And much the way that memes go viral overnight and are suddenly popular, and everyone uses them for a while — and then they become passe — this community treats stocks like that, almost. Really, I don’t understand how you could disagree with that. A lot of people that used to bet on sports or used to spend their time, maybe their leisure money, elsewhere, are trapped at home. And then people would be like, $360 reporting in here. And it was crazy, because all of these people, they saw so much money come at them so fast. The Daily Hodl does not recommend the buying or selling of any cryptocurrencies or digital assets, nor is The Daily Hodl an investment advisor. No question. So it’s very customary when you have big gains on a stock to celebrate with a plate of fried chicken tendies. And Andrew, what was the understanding of what motivated that decision? People are spamming the chat with these long, emoji-laden posts, just saying, do not sell. And what the special opportunities that have been created for those who already are wealthy, and how they have opportunities that others don’t. Right. I mean, just to put that into perspective — I used to be a business reporter — share price swings like that do not happen on Wall Street. There are a lot of ways to listen to The Daily. And if you’re interested in advertising with “The Daily,” write to us at thedaily-ads@nytimes.com. From The New York Times, I’m Michael Barbaro. This is Alice in Wonderland. I don’t know, man. Pre-Owned. They called it chicken tenders and now tendies. If they succeed in carving out a sustainable niche, well, [EXPLETIVE],, that’s the type of asymmetric upside I’m looking for. GME is not going to the moon, but to the edge of the effing observable universe.” And then he puts 10 rocket emojis, which in Wall Street Bets lingo is like, this stock is going to go up and up and up. On Jan. 28, 2021, almost exactly one month later, one share of GameStop stock reached a high of $483, a … GameStop shares have soared 1,700 percent as millions of small investors, egged on by social media, employ a classic Wall … The message was we determine the value, not you guys in suits, with your business school degrees. There are some people who are investing in this as a protest movement, and they don’t care if they lose their money. Well, in very real terms, some of these hedge funds were losing billions of dollars, with a B. Daily chart Day traders have sent GameStop’s share price sky-high. And on Tuesday, it was $80. Tell us what you were observing in the weeks leading up to this becoming a huge national story. All of this is completely jarring to Wall Street, to policymakers. Oh, the truth is this is not about profits and losses. I’m all for GME.” Then he goes on to say, “You can control the power. Well, forgive this question, but what if they all just get out of this stock right now? Wednesday is when things went bananas. We want to hear from you. The Discord server for “WallStreetBets” (WSB), the group of retail investors who sent Gamestop’s stock price skyrocketing, has been taken down. It was edited by Dave Shaw and Lisa Tobin and engineered by Chris Wood. This is Daily. You better get on board now. So Wall Street Bets is this place where the incentives of stock trading and incentives of the internet overlap and meet. Two weeks later, GameStop’s … But if you read between the lines, it was very clear that the company was truly on the precipice. We are dedicated to providing unique and informative daily content across all facets of the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry whether it be news, opinion pieces, technical analysis, reviews, … And there’s one in particular, called Wall Street Bets, that has a pretty notorious culture on Reddit. So Redditors discovered that a bunch of big hedge funds were betting against GameStop. And if enough people on the internet get together and collectively agree that something is worth a billion dollars, who’s to say that it’s not? So first, by January 15, it was $35. GameStop stock is up 1,700% since January 1 in run that hurt short sellers Hedge funds Citron and Melvin Capital likely lost billions as the shares rose But GameStop… What’s supposed to happen here? It’s also about maybe having a viral moment, or launching an online campaign, or shaping culture somehow with your trades. Switch. Andrew, I want to pick up where we left off with our colleague, Taylor Lorenz, which is this moment of comeuppance for Wall Street. It’s like if the normal world of stock trading took a bunch of shrooms and started livestreaming itself. Right. Mhm. And so it’s a very mixed group that’s involved in this quote, unquote “trade,” but if there’s anything beyond this trade, the trade is for trust. The losses are the work of an irreverent Reddit subforum, Wall Street Bets. She doesn’t like this either. Wealth Daily editor Jason Williams discusses one of … And then people being like, let’s get it to $100. Lost over $3 billion and needed to be bailed out by other hedge funds. We appreciate it. I’m mindful that a big motivating factor here, Taylor, was proving Wall Street wrong when it comes to GameStop. It was like, I’m buying in at $350, and I’m holding the line. And I think more and more people in the subreddit started to see that he might have a point about this company. But the users The Daily Beast spoke to said they didn’t feel worried so much as vindicated. So that night, I ended up interviewing the C.E.O. Five of the lawyers who planned to represent former President Trump during next week’s Senate impeachment trial have left his legal team. Should something happen when you see what is clearly manipulation of some sort? They’re kind of hyping things up. And it was hard not to cheer for that. View all results for Deal of the Day Deal of the Day. Two months after a market phenomenon took shares of GameStop to the moon, the video game retailer said Monday that it will sell up to 3.5 million of its shares. As noted by The Wall Street Journal on Thursday morning, GameStop “retailer shares soared last month to above $480, from $18.84 at the start of 2021. It’s an American story of distrust that we’re all struggling with in so many parts of society. In response, Russia’s government unleashed a wide-ranging crackdown, including mass arrests, the closure of transportation systems and brutal confrontations with demonstrators. It sounds to me though that you’re suggesting that there was a liquidity problem inside the firm. I want to bring in the C.E.O. But last week, it was dragged back into the zeitgeist when it became the center of an online war between members of an irreverent Reddit subforum and hedge funds — one that left Wall Street billions of dollars out of pocket.Today, we look at how and why the GameStop surge happened, as well as how it can be viewed as the story of our time. The company said the shares will be sold through an "at-the-market" offering, which lets a publicly traded company raise capital over time. Search our huge selection of new and used Deal of the Day Deal of the Day at fantastic prices at GameStop. Collectibles. And to be clear, this was done preemptively. Look, we’ve seen other examples of manipulated schemes like this over the years — just never at this scale. People thought the regulators must have secretly called and told them they had to shut this down. It’ll become funny, or it’ll become a meme, and everyone will talk about it for a while, and then they kind of fade away. Robinhood is a stock investing app. And so it kind of galvanized everyone. GameStop can feel like retailer from a bygone era. So Andrew, the people are crushing the establishment. No, no. In one case, Melvin Capital, which had been one of the more prominent firms out there that had shorted or bet against GameStop, literally was on the verge of bankruptcy. Watch Doug Henwood talk with the Daily Show’s Trevor Noah about GameStop, the lies companies like Robinhood tell about their “democratic” empowerment of small investors, and why the absurdities and inefficiencies of Wall Street are a “racket.”. You paste-eating, rocket-posting children. If it does eventually land on $5, you’ve made $5 cash. GameStop trading draws attention from state regulator, the global economy is improving, acting Capitol Hill police chief apologizes for security lapses, and other news to start your day. So framed this way, by this online community, what ends up happening? Like many UT students, advertising sophomore Dominguez tracks the stock market each day from open to close. Xbox One. They call winnings or gains “tendies.” It’s a play off “tender,” you know, sort of tender, money. And finally, the people are getting the recognition they deserve. Tune in, and tell us what you think. Subscribe to CheckpointXP Daily Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts. GameStop’s modernizing stores, partnering with vendors and offering experiential products. How is that working? Season 26 E 49 • 01/28/2021. The Daily is made by Theo Balcomb, Andy Mills, Lisa Tobin, Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Annie Brown, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett, Michael Simon Johnson, Brad Fisher, Larissa Anderson, Wendy Dorr, Chris Wood, Jessica Cheung, Stella Tan, Alexandra Leigh Young, Lisa Chow, Eric Krupke, Marc Georges, Luke Vander Ploeg, Sindhu Gnanasambandan, M.J. Davis Lin, Austin Mitchell, Neena Pathak, Dan Powell, Dave Shaw, Sydney Harper, Daniel Guillemette, Hans Buetow, Robert Jimison, Mike Benoist, Bianca Giaever, Liz O. Baylen, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Rachelle Bonja, Alix Spiegel, Diana Nguyen, Marion Lozano and Soraya Shockley. It must be time to change the rules, right? Its members were discontented by large hedge funds shorting stock in the company and, more generally, Wall Streets’s ability to manipulate the markets. Overnight, the stock price had gone up to $342. We have lots of financial requirements, including SEC net capital requirements, and —. So they started making memes encouraging each other to punish the serious people by buying worthless GameStop stocks. Three weeks ago, this stock was less than $20. I imagine that she has the same concerns that I do and others do, which is that along the way, there are going to be people who are going to get hurt and lose money. The truth is, it was complicated, but so much more complicated than the speculation, and in many cases, worse than the speculation. It has been a weird time in the stock market, where a video game retailer has suddenly become the center of attention. Andrew, thank you very much. And whether the professionals who are — by the way, who are also now in this stock too, trying to ride this in all sorts of directions — may ultimately take advantage of them and win. And I’m sure you saw this too over the past week or so, that a fair number of regular investors ended up making a lot of money off this. The two join forces to help GameStop further expand its physical and digital video game offerings. Some of these big hedge funds are seeing the actual flows of trading. Email us at thedaily@nytimes.com. The company had sort of made a case that it could pivot to an e-commerce retailer. People were dancing on Wall Street’s grave. All right. View daily, weekly or monthly format back to when GameStop Corporation stock was issued. How much distrust exists in the American public. Robinhood’s whole goal is to democratize investing. So this is all wreaking a certain amount of havoc on Wall Street, on hedge funds, on trading platforms. You know the players in that world really well. Here are four things you need to know about the GameStop insanity. Now it’s worth almost $350. And in this case, I am sure that the looters and opportunists have also arrived. Amateur investors chatting it up on a Reddit thread have managed to drive GameStop’s stock up more than 600% over the course of the week. 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