The shares of the metallurgical company Tubacex have risen by 8.27% on 1 January in the Spanish Stock Exchange, to EUR 1.43. According to EiTB, citizenship has been organized into a "channel that looks like a subforum" of the Reddit social network, which last week influenced the price of GameStop shares. According to information from EiTB, this channel is called Ws Bets Español and a member of it has announced at noon on 1 January its intention to invest in Tubacex as of 3 February, claiming that it is a company "excessively punished by the pandemic, of cyclical value and leader of the sector". An hour later, the shares increased by 16%, from 1.31 euros to 1.31 euros at 11:00 hours, to 1.52 at noon. Finally, it closed the sitting with a growth of 8% compared to 28 January.
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