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Investment history is being made on a wild Reddit page

Aaron PatrickSenior correspondent

Jan 28, 2021 – 3.53pm

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In the US, the investing herd used to turn each morning to the Wall Street Journal’s “Heard on the Street” column for stock ideas.

Now, the herd meets on the WallStreetBets chat room on Reddit, a website that would have once been called a bulletin board.

Aaron Patrick is the senior correspondent. He writes about politics and business from the Sydney newsroom. Email Aaron at apatrick@afr.com

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