When Cap-Weighted Small-Cap Funds Own “Meme” Stocks
By Jeff Weniger, CFA, Head of Equity Strategy
GameStop may be out of the news cycle, but it is not out of portfolios. The stock was on offer for as little as $3.85 per share last July, before Reddit’s “Wall Street Bets” message board got its hands on the heavily shorted stock, creating a squeeze that sent its price up several hundred points. That made GameStop a sudden heavyweight in many indexes, a condition that lasts to this day.
Posting Internet memes on it and other troubled companies like AMC Entertainment, the movie theater chain, a cultural phenomenon was whipped into such a frenzy that it became the lead story in the Wall Street Journal and in Twitter finance circles. This was especially so as the phenomenon rode a wave of anti-Wall Street sentiment, bringing down an obscure hedge fund Melvin Capital that was short the shares.
Here s How a Market Can Stay Irrational Longer Than Individuals Can Stay Liquid We re witnessing thousands of investors about to take their own financial lives listening to social media. Stocks quotes in this article: GME, KOSS
If you re playing with indexes and boring names, this market probably doesn t bother you too much. If you are trader, it s become death by a thousand papercuts or as Helene Meisler said, Death by a thousand paper hands. Momentum money continues to flee in cryptocurrencies, specifically Dogecoin and Ethereum.
To some degree I understand the move into Ethereum as smart contracts are all the rage thanks to non-fungible tokens (NFTs). I d be willing to wager that many of the current buyers don t understand the risk of a move from proof of work to proof of stake in Ethereum, but when it finally comes to fruition it s anyone s guess as to how it actually plays out. That may be the reason for the biggest dis
Bankers Hours
As the pandemic passed its one year anniversary observance, a lot of entrepreneurs and business owners are learning firsthand what a personal guarantee on debt really means.
Most likely, it means that someone is demanding that you pay them money that you don’t have the means to pay. You personally promised to repay a loan to your business. But your enterprise has been either shuttered for months or operating at 50% of capacity or less; thus, there isn’t enough revenue to service the debt.
Doesn’t matter, says the lender: When you signed the docs, you affixed your signature agreeing that you’re on the hook, no matter what happens to your business.
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Wed, 27 January 2021 | Written By: Neil Wilson
Neil is chief market analyst for Markets.com and also writes for the Investors Chronicle as ‘The Trader’, with the daily market outlook published online each morning.
Something strange is happening on Wall Street
Something strange is happening on Wall Street, or at least to a number of individual stocks, which are getting caught up in a battle between a bunch of Reddit day traders and investors and Wall Street hedge funds. Shares in GameStop (GME) surged another 92% on Tuesday to almost $148, with after-hours trade pointing to shares opening up another 42% higher later today. Other companies’ shares are going through the same weird price action. Shares in AMC Entertainment rose 12% yesterday but shot 66% higher in after-hours trade. BlackBerry, Bed, Bath and Beyond and Nokia are among some of the stocks being bid up.