The Reddit army bailout
MONEYWEB app instead? By Davide Scigliuzzo and Katherine Doherty, Bloomberg 1 Feb 2021 07:31 Image: Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg Itâs the kind of rescue that the most indebted companies in America can only dream of: a fresh injection of cash that doesnât hurt their already depressed stock price or load even more costly debt onto their balance sheet. Yet thanks to the army of day traders who use Reddit to tout and bid up out-of-favour stocks and squeeze short sellers, firms such as American Airlines Group Inc. and AMC Entertainment Holdings have found themselves on the recei...