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Welcome to the Daily Briefing. It's Monday, January 25th. I'm going to be joined shortly by our managing editor Ed Harrison, but first with the day's

stories, Haley Drasnan. Equities were mixed on Monday with the NASDAQ outperforming amidst some concerns that additional

stimulus would be delayed.

We've seen this pattern before that his worries grow about the length of the pandemic.

The NASDAQ and those stay-at-home tech stocks tend to outperform.

GameStop, though, the video game retailer is really making me scratch my head today. The stock

surge nearly 145% to a record intrad day high of around a hundred and fifty nine

dollars per share. This was before circuit breakers halted trading several times due to volatility.

When trading resumed, share prices fell to around $80. The story begins with the fundamentals surrounding Game Stop, one of the last vestiges of this

bygone era of brick and mortar retailers. Sophisticated investors have taken short positions on GameStop as the brick and mortar

approach to selling video games is rapidly getting displaced by digital e-commerce, especially during a pandemic when these non-essential

retail stores like GameStop are forced to close. As such, GameStop is on

the verge of bankruptcy, but enter

Reddit's Wall Street Betts Forum,

subscribed by millions of these so-called Robin Hurters,

you know, these tech savvy millennials

who in this case find strength in numbers call it collusion or simply a white night

rush to save a dying video game retailer but it seems like the popular threads on Wall Street Betts lately have been to encourage getting

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