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Meme stocks extend short-squeeze rally to massive 100%+ gains with GameStop and AMC leading the way
"All this feels like an echo of early 2021, when this account helped fuel a vicious short squeeze i…
Matthew Fox
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GameStop stock tanks 24% as weak earnings trump Roaring Kitty's planned livestream
GameStop reversed its nearly 40% rise in premarket trading on Friday as earnings disappointment off…
Theron Mohamed
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Inside Roaring Kitty's 3 insane weeks of hyperactive social media posting that sparked a feeding frenzy for GameStop stocks
Keith Gill, better known as Roaring Kitty, reignited the craze for GameStop shares after he started…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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GameStop's 118% spike is its biggest in 3-plus years after Roaring Kitty returns with a meme
Short-sellers betting against GameStop lost more than $1 billion on Monday.
Matthew Fox
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GameStop's meme-stock run makes no sense and GameStop may turn it into a $3 billion windfall
GameStop is a troubled company that may be $3 billion richer very soon. It makes no sense and plent…
Peter Kafka
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An inside look at the weekend the GameStop frenzy began on WallStreetBets
Journalist Nathaniel Popper recounts the inner workings of the subreddit WallStreetBets and how it …
Nathaniel Popper
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The hedge fund blown up by its bad GameStop bet aims to scale down assets to renew outperformance
Gabe Plotkin's Melvin Capital suffered a 39% loss in 2021, and was down another 21% in the first qu…
Matthew Fox
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WallStreetBets users plan to publish a book of memes documenting the GameStop saga — and it already has $24,000 in backing on Kickstarter
The goal of the project is to "capture the moments in time when GameStop was all anyone was thinkin…
Phil Rosen
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Roaring Kitty is back on social media and meme stock GameStop is soaring
Keith Gill just posted on X for the first time in nearly three years, sending meme stock GameStop s…
George Glover
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The SEC says positive sentiment from Reddit day traders, not short covering, was the biggest driver of GameStop's wild stock surge. Here are the 5 main takeaways from the report.
"It was the positive sentiment, not the buying-to-cover, that sustained the weeks-long price apprec…
Shalini Nagarajan
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GameStop surges to the top of Wall Street Bets discussions as the stock sees its biggest jump in 10 weeks
GameStop was the most discussed stock on Reddit's Wall Street Bets, mentioned 830 times in the last…
Isabelle Lee
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Practices that enable short-selling could become more transparent under a new SEC rule in response to GameStop mania
Securities lenders would have to report material information on loans within 15 minutes of the tran…
Natasha Dailey
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'Big Short' investor Michael Burry questions Elon Musk's space ambitions and pokes fun at GameStop's stock split
Burry suggested Musk's hubris could be his undoing, and joked that GameStop should enact a 40-for-1…
Theron Mohamed
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GameStop jumps as it taps billionaire activist investor Ryan Cohen as CEO for zero salary
The iconic meme stock climbed early Thursday after the leadership announcement. Cohen agreed to not…
Phil Rosen
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Reddit traders are waxing nostalgic over the pre-short squeeze days of GameStop — from $13 a year ago to $200 today, many are holding on for more gains ahead
"One year ago today GME closed at $13.90. Today GME closed at $213.90," one Redditor said of the Ga…
Natasha Dailey
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SmileDirectClub soars 33% in 3 days as retail traders on social media hope for a short squeeze
The stock has a 34% short-interest rate with less than two days to cover, Fintel.io data show.
Natasha Dailey
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Melvin Capital to shut down one year after GameStop short-squeeze caused billions in losses for the hedge fund
"The past 17 months has been an incredibly trying time for the firm and you, our investors," Plotki…
Matthew Fox
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A group of Wall Street Bets traders is laying new plans for a 'gamma squeeze' on GameStop stock
A user posting as "KitrosReddit" garnered over 25,000 upvotes for their post on a potential "mother…
Will Daniel
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'Dumb Money,' the movie based on the 2021 GameStop trading frenzy, comes up short
"Dumb Money," starring Paul Dano, Nick Offerman, and Seth Rogen, depicts the Reddit-fueled 2021 tra…
Dan DeFrancesco
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2 of the biggest hedge fund victims of GameStop's short-squeeze suffered more losses in May, report says
Total hedge fund losses from betting against popular meme-stocks amount to $6 billion since the sta…