The short squeeze for GameStop happened in the same way anyshort squeeze does. Most, if not all, stocks on the stock market have investors who hold a short position against the stock. This means they are making a calculated bet that the stock price will decline over time. Shorting a stoc...
which has a thriving membership on the popular social-media discussion forum site Reddit, was especially buoyant about GameStop’s fortunes, which helped push its share price higher during the final quarter of 2020. By the end of the year, the company’s stock was trading at almost $20. Th...
It looks like it is not game over forGameStop(NYSE:GME). Shares of the popular stock closed higher Wednesday by more than 100%, and are adding another 20% in after-hours trading. So what is behind the spike in GME stock? And what else do you need to know? Source: TY Lim /...
GameStop Corp. shares have risen by more than 1,900% since Jan. 8, hurting market short-sellers. Shares soared from $17.08 a few weeks ago to $347.51 at Tuesday's close. Here's how it happened.FILE - An exterior view of a GameStop store on July 21, 2020 in Pembroke Pines, ...
Jan 28, 2021 Stock Market Show Transcript Jeff Bakalar talks to CBS News Business Analyst Jill Schlesinger about GameStop's wild stock ride and how a subreddit helped kick off its meteoric rise in the face of the financial institutions that had been shorting it....
A brigade of amateur stock traders and populist avengers is behind the sudden surge in the stock prices of companies that have struggled during the pandemic. The rebellion began withGameStop, the near-bankrupt video game chain retailer and has moved on to other consumer stocks as the Redditors...
Why did Robinhood stop users from buying GameStop shares? On Jan. 29, Robinhood postedanother blogabout what happened. The company explained it was required to keep a substantial amount of money on hand in order to process all the trades happening through its clearinghouse, which is the part ...
Roaring Kitty is Keith Gill who was also on Reddit as u/deepF...Value and active on the subreddit r/wallstreetbets. GME is squeezed again GameStop shares drifted steadily lower after the initial meme stock craze, settling at around $10 a share by the spring of 2024. ...
Some Reddit users got involved to punish hedge funds that were seeking to profit from a company’s troubles – but others simply wanted to make money themselves. What happened next? Gamestop’s soared by 408%, from $96.80 (£70.83) to $492.02 (£358.44), between Tuesday and Thursday ...
What we are going to talk about is everything that happened to the stock throughout January. To make sure that we are all on the same page, GameStop stock had a pretty wild ride throughout the month. GameStop’s share price opened the year at $19, but soared to a high of $483 ...