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Moment of weakness : Amateur investors left counting GameStop losses
6 Feb, 2021 09:49 PM
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Some short-term traders were left out of pocket as popular stocks fell after frenzy. Photo / AP
Some short-term traders were left out of pocket as popular stocks fell after frenzy. Photo / AP
Financial Times
By: Madison Darbyshire, Robin Wigglesworth, Alice Kantor and Aziza Kasumov
Retail investors who piggybacked on a rally in a clutch of stocks including GameStop are nursing heavy losses as shares have come crashing back to earth. What began as a planned so-called short squeeze on the consoles retailer, orchestrated by traders on the Reddit message board r/WallStreetBets, quickly spiralled into a frenzied rally in a number of shares that stung hedge funds betting on declines. Billionaires such as Chamath Palihapitiya, Mark Cuban and Elon Musk all weighed in on the fervour.
A family campervan holiday to Northland
12 Sep, 2020 09:30 PM
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A campervan holiday with family. Photo / 123rf
Setting out
There is a moment two hours into every family road trip when this all suddenly feels like a very bad idea.
The young ones are restless. Driving is boring (it s hard to argue with them on long stretches of motorway leading out of the city centres). Your destination is too far, your lofty ambitions of showing them the country too high.
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But most of the fun of campervans is in using your vehicle as a home, and not in using your home as a vehicle. By which I mean: campervans aren t that great to drive, but they are a lot of fun to live in. For that reason, plan short spurts of driving from the get-go. An hour here, a quick leg stretch there. Another hour on the road, then the long-promised icecream at the next dairy you pass.
The writer, a Chevening scholar, studied International Journalism at the University of Sussex.In the event of an electoral defeat, the losing political parties generally use the post-election time.