Janet Yellen calls meeting with financial regulators over GameStop frenzy
Posted on AllSides February 3rd, 2021
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will meet with top financial regulators to discuss the recent stock market frenzy propelled by a mass movement of retail investors on Reddit targeting GameStop and other heavily shorted stocks.
Yellen will meet this week, as soon as Thursday, with the heads of Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Reserve, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Treasury said on Tuesday.
“Secretary Yellen believes the integrity of markets is important and has asked for a discussion of recent volatility...