Dozens of people gathered at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday to protest investment in Robinhood apps and Wall Street badger traders amid the chaos of GameStop stocks.
Some of the protesters were seen leaving the building and shouting “Shame!” and “Eat the rich.”
“How much money do you make?” one of the protesters repeatedly asked.
Two other people were seen walking into the Trump building across the street to avoid the crowd.
The group picked up signs that read “Wall Street Tax Transactions” and chanted “I want my money. I want her now. “
“We want a free market,” they chanted.
The cries of “F – k Robinhood” and “Robinhood must leave” also came after the stock trading app restricted the purchase of GameStop and other companies earlier Thursday, triggering a class action lawsuit and calling for an investigation. from parliamentarians.
Robinhood later said it would allow “limited purchases” of those securities starting Friday.
Small investors, backed by the Reddit / r / wallstreetbets page, have raised the price of several cheap stocks, such as GameStop, by buying it in bulk after learning that hedge funds have “shortened” the stock or bet on it to fail.
The saga, which pits start-up investors against the Wall Street institution, has raised concerns from lawmakers, and both houses of Congress are set to hold hearings at a later date.
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