The erratic trading in shares of underdog companies like GameStop that turned markets combustible last week appears to have migrated to commodities, sending silver prices surging to an eight-year high.
Geraldine Barnuevo, , environmental strategies and sustainability senior manager at GM, spoke to Cheddar about what's in store for the automaker following its big pledge to go carbon neutral by 2040.
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Christopher Kardatzke, the chief technology officer for Quiver Quantitative, joined Cheddar to discuss how hedge funds have started inquiring about its data-scraping tech in the wake of the GameStop short squeeze.
The wave of small investors who have ballooned the price of GameStop stock in an unprecedented short squeeze are calling on each other to hold their positions even as trading platforms freeze additional sales.
Robinhood and other online trading platforms are moving to restrict trading in GameStop and other stocks that have soared recently due to rabid buying by smaller investors.
John Banovetz, chief technology officer at 3M, spoke with Cheddar about how we can better prepare for future pandemics based on lessons learned from COVID.