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GameStop Trading Craze: The Week Underdog Stocks Took On Wall Street In just five days, GameStop’s shares soared up to 500%. WSJ analyzed how Reddit posts, YouTube videos and tweets by personalities including Elon Musk spread online and fueled a trading craze that turned Wall Street upside down. Photo illustration: George Downs/WSJ
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updated03/02/2021 21:02 | How Options-Trading Redditors Fed the GameStop Frenzy Wall Street is in an uproar over GameStop shares this week, after members of Reddit’s popular WallStreetBets forum encouraged bets on the video game retailer. WSJ explains how options trading is driving the action and what’s at stake.
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updated29/01/2021 13:01 | What China’s New Digital Currency Tells Us About a Cashless Future China is testing a digital yuan, aiming to accelerate the replacement of cash and increase state control in a society where digital payments via Wechat Pay and Alipay are already the norm. Here’s what Beijing’s new system looks like—and how it would work. Photo credit: Florence Lo/Reuters
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updated08/01/2021 12:01 |
What China’s New Digital Currency Tells Us About a Cashless FutureChina is testing a digital yuan, aiming to accelerate the replacement of cash and increase state control in a society where digital payments via Wechat Pay and Alipay are already the norm. Here’s what Beijing’s new system looks like—and how it would work. Photo credit: Florence Lo/Reuters
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updated08/01/2021 12:01 | Inside the Fed’s Plan to Support Minority Workers Recent changes to the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy framework could boost prospects for marginalized groups. Raphael Bostic, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, explains.
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updated17/12/2020 12:12 | How Elon Musk Found Stock Success Amid the Covid Pandemic Elon Musk’s blind optimism and affinity for grandiose claims that once undercut his credibility may now have helped propel him to become the world’s second richest person. WSJ takes a look at how he managed to succeed amid the pandemic. Photo: Britta Pedersen/Zuma Press
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updated11/12/2020 12:12 |
FTC, State Attorneys General Hit Facebook With Antitrust Lawsuit New York State Attorney General Letitia James outlined a sweeping antitrust suit against Facebook by the Federal Trade Commission and a bipartisan group of 46 state attorneys general, targeting the company’s tactics against competitors. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
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updated10/12/2020 1:12 | Options Trading Is More Popular Than Ever Despite the Risks Traders are buying and selling stock options at a record pace. WSJ explains how call and put contracts work, and why they carry hidden risks for amateur investors. Illustration: Zoe Soriano for the Wall Street Journal
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updated02/12/2020 12:12 | Dow Reaches 30K; Watch How These Stocks Defied the Pandemic The Dow Jones Industrial Average reached a milestone of 30000. WSJ’s Jason Bellini explains how we got here and what the 30000 figure tells us about the state of the stock market. Photo: NYSE
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updated24/11/2020 20:11 |
Fracking: The Unexpected Issue That Could Determine the 2020 Election In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, the debate over fracking signals the potentially decisive role Pennsylvania voters on both sides of the issue could play on Election Day. Photo: Bloomberg News
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