THE glove sector has undoubtedly been in the limelight since the Covid-19 pandemic broke out. However, of late, there has been much discourse on the sector, with one party, comprising mainly retail investors, making bullish bets, and another, the institutional investors, having a less sanguine view. This has been further fuelled by the GameStop frenzy in the US, where a “battle” broke out between a group of amateur investors on Reddit — who were buying shares of the video game retailer, leading to phenomenal gains in its share price — and a multibillion-dollar hedge fund, which was betting against the stock. In a bid to emulate the GameStop saga and mounting a challenge to short-sellers, a new forum on Reddit dubbed “BursaBets” was created by Malaysian investors on Jan 28 to buy up shares in rubber glove companies, in particular Top Glove Corp Bhd. The forum even has its own Telegram group dedicated to discussing the stock.