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GameStop: To the Moon and Back

The extraordinary story of GameStop and how a group of small investors tried to drive the price of the computer game company up and win a fight with Wall Street hedge funds.

James Clayton tells the extraordinary story of GameStop. In January the share price of the computer games company soared, as small investors joined together on Reddit message forums. Their aim was to try and force huge losses on big hedge funds who had bet that the share price of GameStop would fall. So who won?

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