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The online trading app Robinhood eased restrictions on various stocks Friday after hitting pause due to heavy volume on Thursday. Some of those stocks include GameStop, AMC Entertainment, Bed Bath & Beyond, and BlackBerry.

Keith Patrick Gill is the person behind the Roaring Kitty YouTube streams which, along with a string of posts by Reddit user DeepF***ingValue, helped attract a flood of retail cash into GameStop, burning hedge funds who had bet against the company and roiling the broader market.

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

Investors will get earnings from  a trio of Dow members: Chevron, Caterpillar and Honeywell

Robinhood stopped customers from buying a number of shares on Thursday due to large amounts of trading in those stocks, according to the company's blog post

Qualtrics shares rocketed up 50% in the first day of trading, closing at $45.50

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. 

Gary Kaltbaum and Michael Lee give an investor's outlook on jumping on the short selling movement.

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. 

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.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet Thursday that he "absolutely" supports Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's call for the House Financial Services Committee to launch an investigation into Robinhood for its stock trade restrictions. 

The struggling video game retailer's stock has been making stupefying moves this month, wild enough to raise concerns from professional investors on Wall Street to the hallways of regulators and the White House in Washington.

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

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told Sen. Ted Cruz to “sit this one out” when he said he agreed with her call for an investigation into Robinhood’s stock trade ban. 

Stocks rebounded amid heavy selling in shares of GameStop, AMC and others.

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

The trading app Robinhood is restricting trading in certain securities because of the recent volatility in a number of names.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Elizabeth Warren slammed hedge funds and investors who criticized the Reddit investors driving the astronomical GameStop rally this week

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.