NEW YORK – Interested in trading some of the stocks that have rocked Wall Street recently fueled by social media buzz?
Has the craziness of the comments talking up the so-called meme stocks on Reddit and other sites kept you away? Well, the financial industry has something for you.
On Thursday, investment firm VanEck expects to list an exchange-traded fund called the VanEck Vectors Social Sentiment ETF under the ticker symbol “BUZZ.” It will track an index of U.S.
stocks getting mentioned often in investment-related posts on social media, news articles and online discussion forums. Such stocks have forced Wall Street to pay much more attention to what smaller investors are doing, as they communicate with each on the internet and pitch