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☆ Meme stocks extend short-squeeze rally to massive 100%+ gains with GameStop and AMC leading the way
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Matthew Fox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

GameStop and AMC Entertainment extended their gains on Tuesday to more than 100%. AMC Entertainment took advantage of the massive rally by selling shares to raise capital. AdvertisementWhat began with a Sunday evening tweet from Keith Gill, AKA Roaring Kitty, has materialized into a massive short-squeeze rally that has taken shares of GameStop and AMC Entertainment up 74% and 78% on Monday alone. Before the opening bell, shares of GameStop and AMC soared as much as 158% and 132%, respectively. The rallies have pushed a massive short-squeeze in the stocks, not unlike the 2021 rally that caught Wall Street short sellers off guard and sank a prominent hedge fund.

Persons: Keith Gill, —, Wall, DataTrek, Nicholas Colas, Colas Organizations: GameStop, AMC Entertainment, Service, AMC

☆ ‘Frankly stupid’: Fund manager weighs in on reignited meme stock frenzy as GameStop soars
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Vicky Mckeever | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Fund manager Cole Smead has described the meme stock craze as "frankly stupid," as day traders once again pile into GameStop and AMC . The jump was seemingly prompted by a post on social media platform X by "Roaring Kitty," who in 2021 encouraged an army of day traders to pile into GameStop. In premarket trading on Tuesday, shares in GameStop and AMC were up 47% and 51% respectively at 6 a.m. E.T. Quoting "the late, great Charlie Munger," Smead said the day traders were "just taking in rat poison." Munger, who passed away last year, was the vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and famously described cryptocurrency as "rat poison."

Persons: Cole Smead, You've, Roaring, Kitty, Keith Gill, E.T, Charlie Munger, Smead, Munger, Berkshire Hathaway, Yun Li, Fred Imbert Organizations: GameStop, AMC, Smead Capital Management, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, Berkshire

☆ GameStop, AMC shares jump another 40% in premarket trading as meme stock craze returns
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Sam Meredith | In Samuelmeredith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Shares of GameStop and AMC jumped around 40% in premarket trading on Tuesday, on track to extend gains after "Roaring Kitty," the man at the center of the meme stock craze, posted online for the first time in roughly three years. Shares of video game retailer GameStop traded 40% higher at 4:50 a.m. GameStop on Monday climbed a whopping 74.4%, while AMC soared 78.4% in the previous trading session. Roaring Kitty, whose legal name is Keith Gill, is a former marketer for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance. Also known as DeepF------Value on Reddit, Gill drew an army of day traders who cheered each other on and piled into the brick-and-mortar video game stock and in GameStop call options between 2020 and 2021.

Persons: Kitty, Keith Gill, Gill, Yun Li, Fred Imbert Organizations: GameStop, AMC, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Locations: New York

☆ Revival of Meme Stock Mania Continues for GameStop and AMC
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Bernhard Warner | More About Bernhard Warner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Wall Street is feeling meme stock déjà vu. The shares of the movie theater chain AMC Entertainment were similarly buoyant, and obscure cryptocurrencies named after Roaring Kitty and GameStop posted huge gains. Retail traders have been spurred on by the return of Roaring Kitty to social media after a three-year hiatus. Aside from Roaring Kitty’s return to social media, the rally was not driven by any evident news about GameStop or AMC. “Given my past experience in analyzing the periodic bouts of meme stock activity, consider me suspicious,” Sosnick wrote in a research note.

Persons: Keith Gill, Roaring, Gill, Steve Sosnick, ” Sosnick Organizations: GameStop, Netflix, AMC Entertainment, Retail, AMC, Interactive

☆ GameStop is surging for a second day — but one market guru calls the Reddit-fueled rally a 'speculation orgy'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( George Glover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

GameStop shares soared once again ahead of Tuesday's opening bell. Other meme stocks like AMC and BlackBerry have also racked up big gains this week. Market gurus like Jim Chanos and Larry McDonald aren't convinced by the Reddit-fueled rally, though. AdvertisementGameStop and other big-name "meme stocks" kept rising ahead of Tuesday's opening bell — but some of the best-known voices in the market are highly skeptical about the rally. AMC, BlackBerry, and several other meme stocks — notable for their popularity on retail investing forums such as Reddit's r/WallStreetBets — also racked up major gains in early-morning trading.

Persons: Jim Chanos, Larry McDonald aren't, —, Keith Gill's, Gill, Kitty, Keith Gill, Roaring, Lol, Ferris, Larry McDonald, Jerome, Powell's Organizations: GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry, Service, Pirates

☆ GameStop, AMC attracting a fraction of retail trader interest seen during 2021's meme mania
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

GameStop and AMC are seeing big buying from mom-and-pop investors, but the purchases pale in comparison to the meme stock explosion seen three years ago. The video game seller and movie theater chain saw more than $15.8 million and $37.5 million, respectively, in net retail trader inflows on Monday, data from Vanda Research shows. But that is dwarfed by peak daily inflows of about $87.5 million for GameStop and $170 million for AMC seen in late January 2021. AMC and GameStop, along with other names associated with 2021's blitz including BlackBerry and Koss , were well off session highs in Tuesday afternoon trading. Still, GameStop and AMC on Tuesday were up more than 55% and 40%, respectively, as of 2:15 p.m.

Persons: Keith Gill Organizations: GameStop, AMC, Vanda Research

☆ Recent college grads are doing shockingly well. Can it last?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

And recent grads aren’t just finding any job, they’re finding good jobs. Not all is well: The EPI study found that racial and gender wage gaps still remain large among recent grads. GameStop shares tripped multiple circuit breakers — a temporary and mandated halt in trading to let investors cool off for a bit. Robinhood denied claims on social media on Monday that it had once again halted GameStop stock purchases on its platform. Robinhood has not shut down the purchase of Gamestop shares,” Robinhood spokesperson Anupriya Ghate said in a statement to CNN.

Persons: it’s, —, Katherine deCourcy, Elise Gould, “, Z, Z’ers, Krystal Hur, Keith Gill, Roaring Kitty, Gill, Robinhood, ”, Anupriya Ghate, ” Shein, Shein, CNN Shein Organizations: CNN Business, Bell, New York CNN, Economic Policy Institute, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Employers, GameStop, AMC, Partners, AMC Entertainment, Gamestop, CNN, Workers, Public, Public Eye Locations: New York, Black, Swiss, Guangzhou, China

☆ Trump Media has reawakened the meme stock monster as GameStop surges
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —We in the financial press tend to talk about the meme stock revolution (or craze, or frenzy, or mass delusion) in the past tense. Another meme stock, Trump Media and Technology Group, the Donald Trump-owned media company that controls Truth Social, brought back memories of the 2021 GameStop bonanza. With Trump Media, Trump supporters and other speculative traders pumped up the stock not for its (extraordinarily lousy) fundamentals, but more as a vote of support for the former president’s campaign and even a barometer of his winning chances. We’re not quite as exuberant today as we were then, but we’re still within spitting distance of all-time highs on major stock indices, Sosnick notes. In some ways, the arrival in the spring of Donald Trump’s media company reawakened the meme stock monster.

Persons: CNN Business ’, Wall, Keith Gill, Kitty, DeepF, Steve Sosnick, who’ve, Gill, Donald Trump, Donald Trump’s, DJT, ” Sosnick, Michael Pachter, David, Melvin Capital, Gabe Plotkin’s, ”, Plotkin, “ Organizations: CNN Business, New York CNN, GameStop, Interactive Brokers, Trump Media, Technology Group, AMC, Trump, Wedbush Securities Locations: New York

☆ Reddit shares close near record after two-day rally driven by meme stocks
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Ashley Capoot | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Traders work as Reddit's logo is displayed, at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., March 21, 2024. Reddit shares popped 7% on Tuesday, climbing for a second straight day after retail traders kicked off a buying frenzy of so-called meme stocks. The stock closed at $62.34, Reddit's second-highest close since its IPO in March. The rally began Monday when "Roaring Kitty," aka Keith Gill, the man who inspired meme stock mania in 2021, resurfaced online, sending shares of GameStop and AMC soaring. Other stocks that have been bunched in with the meme group rose, including BlackBerry , Koss and SunPower .

Persons: Reddit's, Keith Gill, Gill, Reddit Organizations: New York Stock Exchange, GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry Locations: New York City, U.S

☆ AMC's meme stock windfall may help it pay down a massive debt load
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Cars drive near an AMC Theater in New York City on March 29, 2023. The stock, alongside GameStop , surged this week after "Roaring Kitty," the man who inspired the massive short squeeze of 2021, posted online for the first time in nearly three years. The return of Roaring Kitty, whose legal name is Keith Gill, has led AMC shares to more than double since Friday's close. The last time these retail investors rallied around AMC and its stock surged, the movie theater chain was able to avoid bankruptcy. While the acquisitions bolstered the size AMC's theater network, they also levered the company's balance sheet, Handler said.

Persons: Roaring Kitty, Keith Gill, Adam Aron, Eric Handler, Roth, Handler Organizations: AMC, GameStop Locations: New York City

☆ Stock market today: Indexes edge up as traders digest wholesale inflation data
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Filip De Mott | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Major indexes were slightly higher after the data as investors assessed the impact on rate cut outlooks. April's producer price index data beat estimates, gaining 0.5% for the month against 0.3% consensus estimates. The PPI data comes a day before Wednesday's consumer price index and will give investors a broader frame of reference. If CPI data is equally hot, the stuttering stock rally could face even more negative consequences. The 10-year Treasury briefly topped 4.5% after the PPI data before slipping by about one basis point to 4.465.

Persons: Jerome Powell, —, Chris Zaccarelli, Keith Gill Organizations: Service, PPI, Independent, Federal, GameStop, AMC, Treasury, Here's

GameStop shares rallied more than 40% in premarket trading Monday after "Roaring Kitty," the man who inspired the epic short squeeze of 2021, posted online for the first time in roughly three years. Roaring Kitty, whose legal name is Keith Gill, is a former marketer for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance. Currently, the short position in GameStop shares amounts to more than 24% of all its shares that are freely-available to trade, also known as the float. In response, one Robinhood user filed a class-action lawsuit following the app's decision to restrict GameStop trading on its platform. Another class-action lawsuit brought against Gill alleged that he pretended to be a novice trader despite being a licensed professional.

Persons: Roaring Kitty, Keith Gill, Gill, Capital, Ken Griffin's, Robinhood, Melvin Capital, Paul Dano Organizations: GameStop, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, Ken Griffin's Citadel, Citadel Locations: Reddit

☆ GameStop's 118% spike is its biggest in 3-plus years after Roaring Kitty returns with a meme
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Matthew Fox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

GameStop stock soared as much as 118% on Monday, representing its biggest intraday gain in more than three years. The stock soared after Keith Gill, aka "RoaringKitty," posted on social media for the first time in years. AdvertisementGameStop stock soared as much as 118% on Monday, representing its biggest intra-day gain in over three years. The stock soared after Keith Gill, also known as "Roaring Kitty" and "DeepF---ingValue" posted to X for the first time in three years. GameStop stock isn't the only meme stock soaring on Monday.

Persons: Keith Gill, —, Gill Organizations: GameStop, Service, S3 Partners, AMC Entertainment

☆ A flood of crypto tokens with names referencing GameStop and famed trader Roaring Kitty have been created in the last 24 hours as developers try to ride a meme-coin resurgence
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Matthew Fox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The social media return of Keith Gill, aka "Roaring Kitty," has sparked a flood of crypto meme tokens. Microcap meme tokens with names like "GME" and "Roar" have soared more than 1,000%. Most of the tokens were created in the past 24 hours as developers try to capitalize on the spike of interest. Another meme token created on the Solana network is "GIL", which was created early Monday morning and soared more than 4,000% on total volume of about $7 million. "ROAR" is another Solana-based meme token that was created Sunday evening and is trading up 1,856% on total volume of about $12 million.

Persons: Keith Gill, —, Keith Gill's, GIL, KITTY, Gill Organizations: Service, Solana, GameStop, AMC Entertainment Locations: Solana

☆ Roaring Kitty is back on social media — and meme stock GameStop is soaring
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( George Glover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Gill, better known as Roaring Kitty, was the face of GameStop's surprise surge in 2021. The meme stock skyrocketed Monday as his return sent WallStreetBets into a frenzy. Keith Gill posted on X for the first time in nearly three years on Sunday, sending the meme stock sharply higher and sparking excitement on the Wall Street Bets subreddit. AdvertisementIt's unclear exactly what is signified by Gill's cryptic X post of a sketch showing a man leaning forward in his chair. Nevertheless Gill's return still sent r/wallstreetbets, whose users piled into meme stocks like GameStop, AMC, and Bed Bath & Beyond during the pandemic, into a frenzy.

Persons: Keith Gill, Gill, Kitty, WallStreetBets, —, Paul Dano, Gill's, Paul Atreides, Vince McMahon Organizations: Service, GameStop, Financial Services Committee, AMC

☆ GameStop Shares Surge After ‘Roaring Kitty’ Re-emerges
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( J. Edward Moreno | More About J. Edward Moreno | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

GameStop’s share price skyrocketed on Monday after the man who became the face of “meme stock” mania in 2021 with his enthusiastic promotion of the struggling video game retailer emerged from a three-year hiatus. On Sunday evening, Keith Gill, the trader known on some social media platforms as Roaring Kitty, posted an illustration of a person holding a video game controller while leaning forward on a chair on X. On no other news, GameStop’s stock more than doubled in early trading, prompting several temporary volatility-related halts by the New York Stock Exchange. The company’s shares approached a two-year high, adding billions in market value in a matter of hours. But even after Monday’s surge, GameStop’s stock remained well below the heights it reached in 2021.

Persons: Keith Gill, Kitty, Gill, Ferris, Ludacris Organizations: New York Stock Exchange, GameStop, AMC Entertainment

☆ GameStop mentions surge on Reddit, surpassing Nvidia
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

GameStop has once again become a hot topic on Reddit 's famed WallStreetBets page Monday after the man who helped make it a meme stock reappeared online. GameStop was the most talked about equity on WallStreetBets by far on Monday, with more than 700 mentions in the last 24 hours. Monday's jump in discussion comes as "Roaring Kitty," the user who helped catalyze the GameStop stock craze in 2021, posted online for the first time in nearly three years. It marked his first post on Reddit or X, formerly known as Twitter, since 2021. Multiple Reddit users shared screenshots of their GameStop positions on the WallStreetBets page following the return of "Roaring Kitty," though it appeared that many posts on the topic were being filtered out.

Persons: Keith Gill Organizations: Nvidia, Trust, GameStop

☆ Stock market today: Dow ends 8-day win streak as market braces for inflation data
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Matthew Fox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

US stocks were mixed on Monday, with the Nasdaq higher while the Dow ended its 8-day win streak. Investors are bracing for the release of two inflation data points this week: PPI and CPI. The inflation data will help inform investors when the Fed might cut interest rates. AdvertisementUS stocks were mixed on Monday, with the Nasdaq 100 higher while the Dow declined slightly, ending its 8-day win streak. The inflation data will help investors determine when the Federal Reserve might cut interest rates.

Persons: —, Dow, Keith Gill, Jerome Powell Organizations: Nasdaq, Dow, PPI, CPI, Service, Dow Jones, GameStop, AMC Entertainment, Federal Reserve

☆ Reddit, Robinhood shares surge as 'Roaring Kitty' return rekindles GameStop meme rally
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Jesse Pound | In Jesse-Pound | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Reddit rose more than 9%, hitting its highest level since March. Retail brokerage stock Robinhood climbed 8%, cutting some of its losses from last week. Shares of Reddit and Robinhood rose sharply on Monday as social media-fueled retail trading appeared to be making a comeback. Both Reddit and Robinhood could theoretically benefit from a return of the retail trading frenzy. Robinhood had its initial public offering in July 2021, while Reddit went public in March of this year.

Persons: Keith Gill, Gill, WallStreetBets chatroom, Robinhood, Reddit Organizations: New York Stock Exchange, GameStop, Robinhood Locations: New York City, Reddit

☆ A cartoon on X just sent GameStop shares surging 72%
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Krystal Hur | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —The surprise social media return of the trader who helped ignite the meme stock frenzy in 2021 sent GameStop shares skyrocketing Monday. The shares skyrocketed by more than 110% earlier and were halted for volatility several times on Monday morning. GameStop had posted the same cartoon in February, but with a red arrow and chair. Gill described himself as a casual daytime trader in testimony during a 2021 Congressional hearing on the GameStop mania. “The idea that I used social media to promote GameStop stock to unwitting investors is preposterous,” Gill said in written testimony.

Persons: Roaring Kitty, Keith Gill, Gill, Kitty, “ Deepf, ” Gill, “, Paul Dano Organizations: New, New York CNN, GameStop, AMC Entertainment, stoke, “ Locations: New York, GameStop’s

☆ GameStop short sellers have already lost $1 billion from Monday's monster rally
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The jaw-dropping rally in GameStop on Monday has already caused losses of $1 billion for short sellers, according to data from S3 Partners. "Expect short covering in this stock as it already had a 100/100 squeeze score prior to today's trading," said Ihor Dusaniwsky, S3 managing director of predictive analytics. Currently, the short position in GameStop shares amounts to more than 24% of all its shares that are freely available to trade, also known as the float, according to FactSet. Including Monday's losses, short sellers in GameStop have lost $1.43 billion in May alone, according to S3. "Short sellers may be in for a bumpy and bloody ride in these stocks," Dusaniwsky said.

Persons: Ihor, Roaring, Keith Gill, Dusaniwsky, Reddit, — CNBC's Scott Schnipper Organizations: GameStop, New York Stock Exchange, S3 Partners, Partners, AMC

☆ GameStop stock surges over 70%—but investors should still be wary of 'meme stocks'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Cheyenne Devon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Between 2020 and 2021, he became one of the key internet personas who encouraged an army of day traders to heavily invest in GameStop, kicking off the "meme stock" frenzy. And in 2024, it appears that meme stocks are rallying again. Short sellers are individual investors or hedge funds who believe a certain stock's price will decline. If the stock price doesn't fall the way the short sellers anticipated, they can lose money, as happened with GameStop. Investors should also be wary of chasing meme stocks with the expectation of earning a profit.

Persons: Keith Gill, he's, Gill isn't Organizations: GameStop

☆ 'Dumb Money,' the movie based on the 2021 GameStop trading frenzy, comes up short
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . I'm fascinated by Hollywood's interpretation of finance, from "The Wolf of Wall Street" and "Margin Call" to "The Big Short." The depiction of hedge fund managers Ken Griffin (Nick Offerman), Steve Cohen (Vincent D'Onofrio), and Gabe Plotkin (Seth Rogen), whose firm's GameStop short position put it in Reddit traders' crosshairs, came across as too over-the-top and cartoonish. But if satire was the direction the movie wanted — à la "The Wolf of Wall Street" — it should have pushed harder. Instead, Gill's stoner brother (Pete Davidson) has to carry the comedy load, but most of his jokes come up short.

Persons: —, Keith Gill, Paul Dano, Gill, Ken Griffin, Nick Offerman, Steve Cohen, Vincent D'Onofrio, Gabe Plotkin, Seth Rogen, Griffin, Pete Davidson Organizations: Service, GameStop, Wall

☆ Billionaire Chewy cofounder Ryan Cohen takes over as GameStop CEO
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Chris Johnston | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Ryan Cohen was announced as the new CEO of GameStop on Thursday. AdvertisementAdvertisementGameStop has a CEO once again after Ryan Cohen, the billionaire founder of Chewy, was appointed Thursday. Cohen had been executive chairman since early June after CEO Matt Furlong was shown the door. Cohen, who's the largest investor in GameStop with a 12.1% stake, sold Chewy in 2017 for $3.3 billion. Cohen first took a stake in GameStop in 2020 and joined its board in January 2021 before becoming chairman that June.

Persons: Ryan Cohen, Chewy, —, Cohen, Matt Furlong, Furlong, Keith Gill, Kitty, Paul Dano, Gill, David Organizations: GameStop, Service, Amazon, Forbes, YouTube, Sony Pictures

☆ Finding the GameStop phenomenon: 'Dumb Money' hits theaters
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailFinding the GameStop phenomenon: 'Dumb Money' hits theatersCraig Gillespie, ‘Dumb Money’ director, and the film’s writers and executive producers Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo, join 'Squawk Box' to discuss the 'Dumb Money' film, which follows the 2021 GameStop phenomenon and the story of Keith Gill, also known as Roaring Kitty, who ignited a grassroots movement challenging Wall Street and the big banks in support of a stock he loved.

Persons: Craig Gillespie, ‘, Lauren Schuker Blum, Rebecca Angelo, Keith Gill, Kitty Organizations: GameStop

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