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Investors weathering a storm of financial uncertainty

MORGANTOWN -- While the drama surrounding the Trump administration’s tariff-backed economic strategy plays out daily on a global scale, the palpitations caused by the resulting market volatility are far more personal. Edward Jones financial adviser Brian Kurcaba said that uncertainty is ...

How does the stock market work?

Recently, Reddit made national news. A group of Redditors got together and decided they would buy stocks from GameStop, a company that sells things related to video games. The stock prices skyrocketed. The buyers made a lot of money, enough, according to one Redditor, to pay off a majority of ...

1800GAMBLER hotline sees uptick in calls related to day trading

Newsroom@DominionPost.com  The news has been filled lately with stories about the rogue group that caused chaos on Wall Street with its  buying frenzy of stock in companies like GameStop or AMC Theatres, which had been losing value. These stocks saw their value briefly ...

Angry traders target wrong Robin Hood

by Wes Moore My Twitter mentions were the first sign anything was amiss. “Any one hot @iamwesmoore address?” one tweet asked. “Corporate scum. Someone’s gonna find you,” another tweet said. “I would never do such a thing but if I’m thinking it, at least 3.5 million ...

Feb. 7 letters to the editor

Objection to review board disappointing I was saddened to learn from the article “Council forwards draft to Morrisey” (DP-02-03-21) that the Mon-Preston Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) conveyed, through a letter from their lawyer to Morgantown City Council, their plans to sue the city ...

GameStop short-sale highlights stock market problem

A West Virginia University financial expert said recent surges of traditionally undervalued stocks like GameStop, AMC Entertainment and Blackberry damage market confidence that could ultimately have a negative impact on the economy. “All of these companies had weak financial results, low ...

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