There are several factors that contributed to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze. While there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock. Here is how the short squeeze works.
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When Brian Flynn took out a £1,500 loan to buy his friend’s car four years ago, he had no idea it would one day cost him his family home.
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In the first quarter of 2024, Fundsmith portfolio manager Terry Smith (aka the UK's 'Warren Buffett’) was buying this blue-chip stock. The post ‘Britain’s Warren Buffett’ just bought 262,959 shares of this magnificent stock appeared first on The Motley Fool UK.
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MSE team have explained the Santander trick which could see account holders land £600.
Thames Water’s biggest investor has slashed the value of its stake in the company to zero in a move that renders the troubled supplier effectively worthless, The Telegraph can disclose.
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If the UK stock market keeps on going up in 2024, we might soon run out of cheap value shares to buy and tuck away for the long term. The post I’m looking for the FTSE 100’s best value stocks to buy now. Have I found them? appeared first on The Motley Fool UK.
Our writer highlights two excellent UK growth stocks that he'd feel very comfortable buying today to hold for the long haul. The post 2 British growth stocks I’d stash away in an ISA for the long run appeared first on The Motley Fool UK.
DWP has explained it'll be changing the date Universal Credit payments are made as it makes a key change ahead of the late May Bank Holiday.
Bridgewater Associates bought shares of Apple, Nvidia, and Microsoft in the first quarter, and halved a stake in NIO.
“I had to look up that word . . . I will tell you, anybody who knows me, knows that I am not lackadaisical, now that I know what that word means."
London’s “socialistic” corporate governance rules have taken the “edge” off capitalism in Britain, the chief executive of Wizz Air has said.
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