A few dozen people gathered Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange to protest investment in Robinhood apps and Wall Street weavers amid the chaos of GameStop stocks.
Several of the protesters were seen in line queuing out of the building and shouting “Shame!” and “Eat the Rich.”
“How much money do you make?” asked one of the protesters repeatedly.
Two more people were seen clinging to the Trump building across the street to avoid the crowd.
The group held posters that read “Tax Wall Street Trades” and sang “I want my money. I want it now.”
“We want a free market,” they chanted.
The cries of “Fk Robinhood” and “Robinhood Must Go” also sounded after the stock trading app restricted the purchase of shares of GameStop and other companies early Thursday, sparking a lawsuit. collective and calling for an investigation by legislators.
Robinhood later said it would allow “limited purchases” of those stocks starting Friday.
Short-term investors, bolstered by the Reddit / r / wallstreetbets page, have skyrocketed the price of several cheap stocks like GameStop by buying them en masse after hedge funds were “short-circuiting” stocks or betting on them to fail. .
The saga, which pits novice investors against the establishment of Wall Street, has aroused the concern of lawmakers, and both houses of Congress are scheduled to hold hearings at a later date.
With publishing cables