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Gamestop, an ordinary video game company in the United States, shook the global financial markets last week.

The stock price fluctuated sharply as individual investors intensively bought against the short selling force that expected the company's stock price to fall, but it plummeted two days after the other and eventually fell to the level at the end of last month.

In addition, in the United States, the price of silver fluctuated as individual investors bought silver-related products, but a similar phenomenon occurred in some domestic stocks.



Reporter Kim Jung-woo pointed out whether this movement of individual investors, who said they would no longer be faced by the sideways movement of large financial institutions, could be said to have paid off.



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stock price of GameStop, which was close to $350 per share, has plummeted to $90 in two days.



The war between ant investors and hedge funds has ended as the so-called short squeeze, in which individuals buy stocks to prevent their losses from increasing before the stock price rises further, has been resolved.



Hedge funds lost close to 15 trillion won and some even declared surrender to the intensive buying of individuals armed with abundant funds, knowledge and social media.



[Andrew Left/Citron Research Representative: From today, Citron Research (hedge fund) will not release any reports related to short selling.]



[Hyo-Seok Lee/SK Securities Research Fellow:'Polarization has intensified' or some kind of anger towards Wall Street. There is a possibility that parts such as distrust will continue as a social phenomenon for the time being.]



There are also situations of concern.



The recent trading of game stop stocks by domestic investors is KRW 1.7 trillion.



With the stock price falling more than 70% in the new two days, investors who jumped in late are likely to have suffered a lot.



[Hwang Se-woon/Capital Market Research Institute Research Fellow: When the price increase flow greatly deviates from the company's intrinsic value, the stock price inevitably converges to the intrinsic value of the company.]



An opportunity to newly confirm the power of individuals through collective investment It has been evaluated that it has become, but in the end, it was confirmed again that the stock value has no choice but to follow the intrinsic value of the company.



(Video coverage: Kim Heung-sik, video editing: Lee Seung-yeol)  



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