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How lockdown boredom broke the stock market

Reddit users have confounded Wall Street by sending GameStop stocks into orbit.

Companies that sell physical copies of computer games in shopping malls do not usually expect their share price to increase by several thousand per cent in the digital and e-commerce era. They are doubly not supposed to when a pandemic is either forcing shopping malls to close or is keeping fearful consumers at home.

But that’s exactly what has happened to US videogame retailer GameStop.

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