The Daily Universe
A customer checks on his cellphone as he walks to a GameStop store in Vernon Hills, Ill., Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. The online trading platform Robinhood is moving to restrict trading in GameStop and other stocks that have soared recently due to rabid buying by smaller investors. GameStop stock has rocketed from below $20 to around $350 this month as a volunteer army of investors on social media challenged big institutions who has placed market bets that the stock would fall. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
The last week of January finished with an unexpected stock market mania many are calling the viral “GameStop Saga.”