Small groups of investors protested outside the New York Stock Exchange and at the Menlo Park, California, headquarters of Robinhood, a company that popularised the notion of commission-free trading
A shopper carrying purchases from a nearby GameStop store waits for a bus in Manhattan on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. GameStop shares doubled in premarket trading on Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, the latest turn in a week of wild price swings in companies that have been bid up in a frenzy of activity by small investors.
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