For once, Main Street is beating Wall Street.
In a matter of weeks, two hedge-fund legends – Steve Cohen and Dan Sundheim – have suffered bruising losses as amateur traders banded together to take on some of the world’s most sophisticated investors. In Mr Cohen’s case, he and Ken Griffin ended up rushing to the aid of a third, Gabe Plotkin, whose firm was getting beaten down.
Driven by the frenzied trading in GameStop and other stocks that hedge funds have bet against, the losses suffered over the past few days would rank among the worst in some of these money managers’ storied careers.
Elon Musk accuses Discord of going corporate after it bans Reddit group that is boosting Gamestop stock
WallStreetBets – a community of young retail investors - was purged from messaging service Discord after they were tied to price surges on Wednesday
Musk tweeted: Even Discord has gone corpo…
WallStreetBets Reddit page has seen millions of new members arriving in recent days after Musk posted a link to the group on Twitter, writing: Gamestonk!!
But such are the fears over the viral investing, Joe Biden s White House staff are monitoring the situation - as is the Securities and Exchange Commission
Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Christopher Hohn, Dan Sundheim, Mario Gabelli, David Tepper, Intel Corporation (INTC), Stamps.com Inc (STMP), and More
A billionaire hedge-fund manager is bankrolling an unprecedented campaign to force dozens of the world’s largest companies to publish carbon-emission reduction plans and put them up for shareholder vote. Frustrated by the pace at which corporations are cutting emissions, Christopher Hohn is backing a global effort to speed things up. He is working with nonprofit groups and investor organizations to get at least 100 of the companies in the S&P 500 stock index to adopt the initiative by the end of 2022 voluntarily if possible and through proxy battles at annual shareholder meetings if not.