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Stocktake: Bitcoin ‘fanatics’ attack Jeremy Grantham
- Personal Finance
- March 2, 2021, 00:00
Veteran investor Jeremy Grantham received a torrent of online abuse recently after dismissing the investment appeal of bitcoin. That abuse, says Grant(...)

GameStop's Frankfurt shares nearly triple in catch-up trade to Wall Street
- Retail & Services
- February 25, 2021, 08:20
GameStop Frankfurt-listed shares surged 180 per cent in pre-market trading on Thursday after the videogame retailer’s US stock more than doubled in la(...)

Stocktake: Elon Musk’s market-moving tweets
- Personal Finance
- February 16, 2021, 05:40
More than 46 million people follow Elon Musk on Twitter and many, it seems, have trading accounts. “I kinda love Etsy,” tweeted Musk a few weeks ago:(...)

Stocktake: FOMO blinds traders to risks
- Personal Finance
- February 16, 2021, 05:00
In Jason Zweig’s Devil’s Financial Dictionary, risk-averse is defined as “not willing to take more risk – yet. When assets double or triple in price, (...)

Tokyo 2021 could yet thrill the world with a female face presiding over it
- Other Sports
- February 13, 2021, 06:00
Every so often Japan reminds the world that it is a crazy, beautiful, lucky-dip of contradictions. On the face of things, the resignation of an elder(...)

Elon Musk’s effect on crypto world shows how irrational markets are
- Markets
- February 10, 2021, 13:01
Elon Musk is the world’s greatest gift to cryptocurrencies. These “coins”– really little more than lines of code – still have few real-life use cases.(...)

Stocktake: Beware the house money effect
- Personal Finance
- February 9, 2021, 05:50
GameStop bull Keith Gill – better known as Roaring Kitty on YouTube – lost more than $13 million (€10.7 million) last Tuesday. His consolation, said B(...)

Stocktake: Short sellers are not the enemy
- Personal Finance
- February 9, 2021, 05:40
Retail traders on Reddit’s WallStreetBets forum lost a bundle when the bubble burst, but they can console themselves that they succeeded in one of the(...)

Stocktake: GameStop shows real-world David does not beat Goliath
- Personal Finance
- February 9, 2021, 05:10
The war between Reddit’s GameStop enthusiasts and Wall Street hedge funds was billed a David vs Goliath struggle. Last week’s crash in GameStop shares(...)

Stocktake: Populist GameStop narrative is simplistic
- Personal Finance
- February 9, 2021, 05:00
Prior to last week’s crash, the popular narrative around GameStop centred on righteous and principled Redditors screwing dastardly Wall Street types, (...)