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Now, after a wild January featuring a 1,625% rise, comes the hard part, deciding when to sell.

Before he became the Reddit user behind the GameStop surge, Keith Gill was a college track star. Injuries ended his dreams--and he traded running for investing.

Frenzied trading in GameStop and other stocks highlighted the crucial role clearinghouses play in the functioning of markets.

What we "Know" is the politicians and regulators are getting involved, technicals are driving markets more than fundamentals, and wallstreetbets was moving stocks long before the recent group attracted attention - none o...

Researchers have examined short squeezes over recent years. This shows how GameStop's squeeze is increasingly different.

The Obama-era focus on financial stability is giving way to concerns about racial equity and climate change in regulatory efforts.

State and local governments are turning to a financially dicey borrowing tactic to support their budgets as the coronavirus recession wears on with no direct aid from Congress.

From the "Double Spend" scare of January 20, 2021 to the flight to the safety of cryptocurrency's decentralized trading platform on January 30, 2021, a ten day window in the life of Bitcoin illustrates the power of fixed...

One of the biggest risks you'll face as an investor is the temptation to listen to people at the extremes.

Businesses bought a record amount of clean energy in 2020, despite the massive disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, global recession and political upheavals that created uncertainty about energy policies, includin...

Kuaishou Technology, which operates one of China's most popular short-video apps, met with strong investor demand as the company targets the world's largest float since late 2019, set to value it around $60 billion.

Individual traders banded together this past week to move markets like never before. But the build-up to this remarkable moment has been happening for decades.

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The SEC generally encourages greater involvement of retail investors. But as more individuals become short-term speculators, the agency could come in for blame when bubbles burst and investors are saddled with losses.

How traders online drove the videogame retailer's stock to new highs and caused a crazy week in markets.

"The market is not broken, but recent events have revealed some cracks," one expert says.