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Defiant amateur investors on Reddit say they are not backing down on their investments in GameStop — and even took out billboards in Times Square and across the country urging the faithful to continue holding the line.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will have a difficult time proving market manipulation is behind the recent trading frenzy.

Short interest in GameStop Corp, whose shares have skyrocketed this week, is at $11.2 billion, making it the third most shorted stock by value, although the number of shares shorted has declined, analytics firm S3 Partners said.

A 10-year-old San Antonio boy made a killing by selling GameStop stock he was gifted more than a year ago.

Texas' top prosecutor said he was launching an investigation into the GameStop market surge Friday, accusing Wall Street "elites" of rigging the markets and corruption.

Government stimulus checks fueled GameStop stock surge, according to bond fund manager Jeffrey Gundlach.

U.S. equity markets were lower Friday as a wild week of trading on Wall Street draws to a close.

Andrew Bonfield, Caterpillar's financial chief, said in an interview that while a rebound in home construction was boosting purchases for some machinery, spending cuts by local and state governments were weighing on road construction.

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.

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc took down a popular Wall Street discussion group, Robinhood Stock Traders, in a move that its founder on Thursday described as backlash for conversations buoying shares of GameStop Corp and other companies this week.

On the fourth day of an epic short squeeze that began with GameStop and spread to other heavily shorted stocks, the surge finally seemed to be falling apart today.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

U.S. equity markets were under pressure Wednesday after the Federal Reserve kept policy on hold and investors grappled with the ongoing short squeeze in a number of companies' shares. 

This week is set to be the busiest for quarterly earnings reports this season.