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January Predictor makes headlines but says little about the U.S. market’s direction

Champions of GameStop’s jaw-dropping stock surge portray it as a victory by long-suffering mom-and-pop investors over nefarious Wall Street institutions, but some veteran market observers question who, exactly, is getting played.

Reddit’s WallStreetBets is really the same old story — a concerted effort of market manipulators who will get rich and surely destroy some unwitting participants in the process.

This yoga teacher is hoping to leave Colorado within the year.

GameStop short-sellers are blowing up professional investors’ funds. But the story is far different for bets against Tesla and other large-cap stocks.

Dozens of heavily shorted stocks have rocketed 50% or more during 2021.

Also, retirement destinations, clean-energy ETFs and climbing out of debt.

3 strategies to determine how much you can safely spend in retirement

Reddit’s WallStreetBets has 3.3 million members and counting, and its own language.

The financial markets have been democratized. Regulators shouldn’t make moves to inadvertently curtail that.

Levi & Strauss reported better-than-expected quarterly results this week.

Walgreens stock was up nearly 5% in Wednesday trading after the news of Brewer’s selection for the role.

Silver Lake clears a roughly $112 million profit by turning its debt holdings of AMC Entertainment into stock this week, just as a band of individual traders on Reddit and other online messaging boards drive up the struggling movie chain’s stock price.

January Predictor makes headlines but says little about the U.S. market’s direction

Former longtime “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart just joined Twitter — screen name: @jon_actual; followers: 845,800 and counting, rapidly — and is already staking out controversial ground, setting low expectations and suggesting he’s embarked on a path to the presidency.

Dallas Fed President Rob Kaplan on Friday said he was more confident that the economy will see strong growth this year, but won’t talk about possible timing of an exit from the ultra-easy monetary policy stance.