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‘Significant doubt’ over GameStop’s future in Ireland as accumulated losses top €40m

Company has been loss-making for years and directors said ‘uncertainty’ existed over the future funding of the business
  • Donal MacNamee
  • July 28, 2022

GameStop Ireland cut workforce by 33% after Covid ‘raised questions’ over future

High-profile gaming outlet says Covid accelerated shift to online sales but still posts €5m loss
  • Donal MacNamee
  • December 22, 2021

Are we facing another dotcom crash?

Buoyed by a surge in retail traders, tech stocks boomed. Then the crash came, wiping out investors and entire businesses. Now, decades later, tech stock fever is again in full swing. Will today’s boom will be a rerun of the 2001 dotcom bust?
  • Jason Walsh
  • April 25, 2021

Comment: Putting brakes on stock trading would make GameStop-type events worse

Slowing or staunching trades through a transaction tax as is proposed in the US would prolong the time it takes for a meteoric price rise to correct itself
  • Todd G Buchholz
  • February 23, 2021

Trading places: the rise of the citizen investor

In the gamification of the stock market, increasing numbers of Irish people are playing the markets alone on free apps or in large groups inside private chat rooms such as Discord
  • Rosanna Cooney
  • February 7, 2021

Comment: GameStop saga highlights problem of boards’ reliance on stock prices

A new model of corporate governance that depends on human, board-level judgement is clearly needed
  • Faith Stevelmanand
  • Sarah C Haan
  • February 2, 2021

Aidan Regan: Wall Street’s aristocrats prepare to head off barbarians at the gate

Last week proved that Reddit’s 'degenerates’ can beat professional investors at their own game. But for how long?
  • Aidan Regan
  • January 31, 2021

Platoons of investors beat hedge funds at their own game – for now

It can be seen as the moment when populism stormed the citadels of high finance, but there are likely to be few winners when the GameStop trading episode is over
  • Vincent Boland
  • January 31, 2021

Analysis: Making sense of the GameStop surge

The wild ride of retailer’s share price has naturally led to much head scratching from those unfamiliar with the drama or the idea of a short squeeze, so what does it all mean and what might the repercussions be?
  • Emmet Ryan
  • January 29, 2021

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