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by Tyler Durden Monday, Mar 15, 2021 - 05:12 AM Now that the $1.85 trillion Biden stimulus is officially being deployed with tens of millions of stimmy checks being sent out this weekend to household across the nation, BofA's Jared Woodard writes that the "most important question" in for investors in 2021 is " what will US households do with their extra money as the economy fully reopens?" or in other words, where will all those stimmy checks go. And while the consensus is that the record “savings glut” will be spent, will the consensus be wrong again? Here, BofA sees two possible outcome...

Rise of the retail army: the amateur traders transforming markets Once dismissed as a quirky sideshow, the growth of retail trading is forcing mainstream investors to take note. Many in the industry point out that the market-moving power of the amateurs is more than a fleeting fad focused on a narrow set of stocks. Katie Martin and Robin Wigglesworth Mar 10, 2021 – 11.15am Share London/Oslo | When newcomers discover Robinhood, and decide to use the zeitgeist US trading platform to punt around in stocks, many of them have questions. Chief among them, it seems, is “what is the stock market?...

And yet, none of it has been enough to rattle the retail investor. Instead, to borrow a Reddit phrase describing bullish gumption, they’ve had diamond hands. Since the market peaked a few weeks ago, retail traders have plowed cash into U.S. stocks at a rate 40% higher than they did in 2020, which was a record year. They’re opting for parts of the market that have suffered the most, doubling down in arguably risky ways with triple-leveraged tech funds and options galore. A year out from the Covid-19 stock crash, with individual traders now making up nearly a quarter of U.S. volume on an...

By Sarah Ponczek Apple Inc. has slumped 15% since late January. Tesla Inc. has lost more than a quarter-trillion dollars in market value in three weeks. And more than $1.5 trillion has been wiped off the Nasdaq 100 in less than a month. And yet, none of it has been enough to rattle the retail investor. Instead, to borrow a Reddit phrase describing bullish gumption, they’ve had diamond hands. Since the market peaked a few weeks ago, retail traders have plowed cash into U.S. stocks at a rate 40% higher than they did in 2020, which was a record year. They’re opting for parts of the market th...

Is our Democracy broken? Can it be improved or rebuilt to realize its potential in this country? Humanities Washington explores these issues in a live, statewide broadcast with Spokane Public Radio, Northwest Public Broadcasting, and KUOW on Wednesday, March 10 at 7 p.m.  Guests include WA Secretary of State Kim Wyman, WSU professor Jennifer Sherman, Eric Liu of Citizen University, and YOU!  Questions and comments previously called in will be included . Join us  .