The pending Coinbase direct listing is exciting a broad base of the investment community outside the usual cryptocurrency crowd.

Reddit's WallStreetBets forum has garnered a reputation for being a meme-fueled casino where members push risky investment ideas and bet their life savings away, but real-world data suggests the users of the forum post serious due diligence reports and are actually quite skilled, according to a new research study.

Shares of Blackberry slipped 9% Wednesday after the communications software firm revealed fourth-quarter revenues that missed expectations even on improved QNX car software sales amid a global chip shortage.

A raft of seemingly unrelated incidents and developments have shaken up global markets. But there are two things that connect them. Archegos Capital management, Gamespot, Greensill and others.

Robinhood Markets Inc is building a platform to "democratize" initial public offerings (IPOs), including its own, that would allow users of its trading app to snap up shares alongside Wall Street funds, according to people familiar with the matter.

A year after the pandemic plunged the U.S. economy into it worst crisis since the Great Depression, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is largely satisfied with the central bank's rapid-fire response.

Robinhood has filed confidential paperwork to pursue an initial public offering (IPO), a source familiar with the matter told CNBC on Tuesday.

Investors put a record $68.3 billion into equity funds in the week to March 17, even as a spike in government bond yields sent the high-flying Nasdaq index reeling, BofA data showed on Friday.

Wall Street Bets users on Reddit now have a new target after taking on hedge funds: gorillas. Since Saturday, users have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars adopting apes through the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. And, in return, the homepage of the Atlanta-based Fund's website now features the subreddit's motto: "apes together strong."

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The U.S. securities regulator on Friday suspended trading in the securities of 15 companies because of "questionable trading and social media activity," the latest in a string of temporary trading halts amid volatile trading in so-called "meme stocks."

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Apple Inc is planning to increase dividend according to Chief Executive Tim Cook, CNBC reported on Tuesday, citing the shareholder meeting. The company's shareholders also approved compensation for Apple executives for fiscal 2020, the report said.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, Robinhood co-CEO Vlad Tenev, and Keith Gill (aka Roaring Kitty) are all on the witness list for an upcoming hearing before the House Financial Services Committee, according to a release from Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA). The hearing, to be conducted virtually, will probe the recent volatility in shares of GameStop following a rally fueled by a group of day traders active on the r/WallStreetBets Reddit board.

Someone was always going to be left holding the bag. That’s the way it works. After weeks of magnificent highs, GameStop’s stock is plummeting. As of this writing it’s at $57, down from last week’s high of more than $400. As the stock falls, investors are selling off, which only increases the fall. The destitute players who held on to the stock too long are now gathering online to commiserate and return to the activity that started it all—posting.

Hedge fund Melvin Capital Management lost 53% in January amid a record rally in GameStop and other stocks the fund was betting against, a source familiar with the matter told CNBC.

The world is watching U.S. markets with great interest, and more than a little FOMO, as Reddit investors continue to test their might against Wall Street. It all started when retail investors on the Reddit community wallstreetbets began pumping the price of U.S. video game retailer GameStop’s (GME) stock to counter Wall Street hedge funds...

Billionaire “Bond King” Jeffrey Gundlach is the latest to blame government stimulus cheques for the massive surges in stocks like GameStop that’ve caused Wall Street firms huge losses. “In this case thanks to primarily government policy there’s wherewithal among investors, if you want to call them that, with government money being sprayed all over the place, with checks to people, that they have the wherewithal to put it together into a real capital base,” told Fox Business on Friday.

The new clearing requirements were one of the more widely applauded features of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act. With good reason. Prior to the Great Recession, most derivatives transactions were unregulated and undisclosed. Under the Dodd-Frank Act, clearinghouses now guaranty many swaps by serving as a buyer to every seller and a seller to every buyer. If one of these buyers or sellers fails, the clearinghouse can step into the gap, thus limiting the risk that the failure will interfere with the financial markets.

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