Investing Playbook

Here are some alternative Robinhood trading app options.

Robinhood on Friday plans to resume limited buys of the casino like securities roiling markets.

Robinhood, founded in 2013 by Vladimir Tenev and Baiju Bhatt, is a financial services company whose mission is to "democratize finance for all" by offering commission-free trading on individual companies, options and ETFs. In addition, the company also offers cash management accounts and cryptocurrency trading. 

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced she is looking into recent activity on Robinhood after the trading platform restricted trading of certain securities Thursday, resulting in multiple lawsuits against the company. 

Jaime Rogozinski never imagined the Reddit community he created in 2012 would morph into a force so powerful that it would send GameStop Corp. shares into overdrive, nearly topple a hedge fund and leave professional money managers around the country staring at Twitter with their mouths agape.

Billionaire Ken Griffin's hedge fund Citadel LLC and the market maker Citadel Securities say they had nothing to do with the app Robinhood suspending some trading in stocks that have recently experienced a surge in volatility.

Two Robinhood users filed separate lawsuits against the brokerage app Thursday after it and other apps restricted trading of certain securities.

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy went on a tirade Thursday against Robinhood after the mobile brokerage app restricted trades of some volatile stocks.

A surge of trading volume in shares of GameStop has stunned Wall Street firms betting that those stocks would fall.

FOX Business’ Stuart Varney argues in his latest "My Take" that Democrats will use the GameStop story to "regulate and beat up" Wall Street, the rich and hedge funds.

FOX Business host Charles Payne on Wednesday condemned Wall Street's "whining" about a market frenzy tied to heavy trading and short-selling in shares of AMC Entertainment, GameStop and BlackBerry.

Obviously, this level of volatility is highly unusual. The recent price action in GameStop and several other stocks can be attributed to a phenomenon known as a short squeeze. Here's a closer look at what that means, how it works, and why it can cause massive spikes in stock prices like we've seen this week.

The losses at Point72, which manages nearly $19 billion in assets, came in part from its investment in hedge fund Melvin Capital Management

Discord, a platform that allows users to communicate over voice and texts, banned the WallStreetBets server Wednesday amid Gamestop stock's recent surge driven by retail investors, but a company spokesperson said they removed the server "for continuing to allow hateful and discriminatory content after repeated warnings."

Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone analyzes the gaming retailer's surge in the markets and gives an economic outlook for the future.

The SEC and the White House are weighing in on the extreme market volatility in select stocks.

The Biden administration said they will be monitoring the rapid rise in GameStop stocks after the seemingly failing retailer shocked the market with recent spikes.

FOX Business' Stuart Varney in his latest "My Take" argues GameStop's stock surge has "everything to do with the little guy going up against the big guys of Wall Street."

Share price has jumped by 700% over the past two weeks

Private equity giant Blackstone Group Inc. has agreed to buy Allstate Life Insurance Co. from Allstate Corp. for $2.8 billion, the latest in a slew of deals between financial firms and life insurance businesses.