Robinhood, Melvin, and Citadel execs expected to testify on GameStop before C...
The price of GME has fallen almost 90% since lawmakers first called for a hearing. Executives from companies involved in the recent controversy between hedge funds and retail investors from Reddit may be testifying at a House Financial Services Committee hearing next week.According to a Reuters report, two people familiar with the matter said executives from trading app Robinhood, investment manager Melvin Capital, and hedge fund Citadel are expected to testify in a congressional hearing scheduled for Feb. 18. Bloomberg reported that Citadel founder Ken Griffin is likely to be in....
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The trading platform's decision to shut Redditors out from buying GameStop continues to raise eyebrows. The connections between trading app Robinhood, Citadel hedge fund, Melvin Capital, and GameStop are becoming clearer as the Internet burns with outrage over allegations of market manipulation.Melvin Capital was one of the biggest players short-selling GameStop stock, or GME. When a number of Redditors — and gamers — on the r/Wallstreetbets subreddit pushed back against institutions trying to financially destroy the popular brick and mortar video game store, the price of GameStop shares....
The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services hearing will investigate issues around the recent trading surge for shares of GameStop and other companies.
A Melvin Capital client claims that the firm has "massively de-risked" its investment portfolio following the controversy involving short-selling GameStop stocks. Melvin Capital started 2021 with $12.5 billion in assets before retail investors from Reddit caused the firm to lose billions on its GameStop short positions.According to a Wall Street Journal report, the hedge fund has a little more than $8 billion in assets at the end of January, which includes a $2.75 billion investment from Citadel and Point72 Asset Management earlier this month. This represents a 53% loss, according to....
Regulators want to know the details of the GameStop short squeeze. Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev will reportedly testify before the United States House Financial Services Committee over the firm’s role in the volatile trading of GameStop and other volatile stocks.According to a report by the American political publication Politico, Tenev is expected to participate in a virtual hearing headed by Representative Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) on Feb. 18. Politico’s report cited anonymous people familiar with the matter.Waters officially announced the Financial Services Committee’s plans to hold a....
The Justice Department joins CFTC and SEC probes into wild markets facilitated by Robinhood and other apps for retail traders. The Department of Justice is reportedly the latest to turn up the heat on last month's crazed markets.Citing unnamed sources, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that the DoJ's fraud division and the San Francisco district attorney's office had launched probes into the brokers (read: Robinhood) and social-media platforms (read: Reddit) who were at the center of wild bull markets on stocks like GameStop and AMC weeks ago. A number of agencies have announced....