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GameStop and other heavily shorted stocks have made enormous gains recently.
Two elements fueling GameStop s rise were huge short bets against the stock and a turnaround case for its business.
Wells Fargo s Christopher Harvey published a list of buy-rated stocks that Wall Street is shorting.
If you ve been away from the stock market a week or so, here s what you missed: There are no stocks anymore. They re called stonks now, and they always go up.
All right, you missed more than that. But that s one takeaway from the megarallies in heavily shorted stocks like GameStop, Bed Bath & Beyond, and AMC Entertainment. There are also lessons about understanding risk, social media, market dynamics, the technical aspects of stocks, and the rules of the road for giant, average, and small-money investors.
they don t have to have any policy thingsreinstate the sales tax. that is intimidation, i think, frankly. it definitely is. look at the stock market. i might be a blip but the president knows his words or tweets can move the stock market. he knows pretty soon he ll be able to move ships with random tweets about iran and forth korea. also, no, he doesn t like bazos because of the washington post but he s a fragile man. this is a long-standing beat. he s been going after companies basically people have been shorting stock ahead of him attacking companies. that s well-known. the at&t merger is really unusual and actually at&t going after the doj and accusing trump of being, having his hands in it is really unusual as is, you know, he is literally now, you know, any bit of descent against
tax. that is intimidation, i think, frankly. it definitely is. look at the stock market. i might be a blip but the president knows his words or tweets can move the stock market. he knows pretty soon he ll be able to move ships with random tweets about iran and forth korea. also, no, he doesn t like bazos because of the washington post but he s a fragile man. this is a long-standing beat. he s been going after companies basically people have been shorting stock ahead of him attacking companies. that s well-known. the at&t merger is really unusual and actually at&t going after the doj and accusing trump of being, having his hands in it is really unusual as is, you know, he is literally now, you know, any bit of descent against him he does try to silence.
that happened with the facebook ipo was particularly related to nasdaq and the insane amounts of volume that are being driven through there through high frequency trains and guys who are shorting stock that they don t really own that s really doing some guesses on whether these guys really have the right to short things. i would say that the ipo process worked a whole lot better when everybody sort of collectively created a price that kind of worked. now it s this whirlwind mechanized, high frequency trade monster. particularly in a stock this large it s a mess. what did morgan stanley know and when did they know it? they have an sbe mat knowledge of the business. they ll say we did everything to