Meet the ‘finfluencers’: The Wall Street novices shaking up the financial world
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By Tara Siegel Bernard
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In March 2020, Kiersten Crum was a stock market novice. The pandemic had forced her college classes online, her father’s bar was temporarily closed and she started working at a grocery store to earn extra cash. With $US500 ($641), she bought shares of the Carnival cruise line, her first foray into stocks.
Now she has a five-figure stock portfolio, she is in the middle of a gap year to focus exclusively on trading and her online presence — be it on Twitter or TikTok — is fully turned over to what she calls her stock market obsession.