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This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, June 23, 2021 GameStop saves money by raising money The “meme trade” has been one of the market’s defining trades this year.  And while some investors have chosen to ignore the action we’ve seen in shares of GameStop (GME) or AMC (AMC) amid a value rotation, rising bond yields, and a booming economy, these retail-driven trading frenzies… Source link

The meme stock craze has found its latest target: video game hardware maker Corsair (CRSR). The company’s stock was up 31% when the market opened on Monday to $40.70, its highest price since late February, as mentions of the company on Wall Street Bets’ (WSB) Reddit pages have exploded. As of Monday morning, the stock was mentioned at least 1,180 times on WSB, according to Quiver Quantitative. Wallstreetbets Trackers, meanwhile, showed activity around Corsair up 17%. Corsair follows a… Source link

(Bloomberg) — After weeks of profiting from the stock and debt of AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc., hedge fund Mudrick Capital Management ended up with a 5.4% loss after a derivatives bet went haywire. The fund, which specializes in distressed debt, suffered the losses on AMC after day traders pushed the movie theater’s shares up as much as 127% on a single day, derailing call options Mudrick had sold on AMC shares to hedge exposure to the company, according to a person with knowledge of… Source link

John Chambers has pretty much seen, and done it all in corporate America.  Chambers led Cisco for two decades, surviving the dot com crash and going onto build the company into the tech powerhouse it is today through numerous acquisitions and impressive operational skill. Along the way he developed close, lasting relationships with world leaders such as France President Emmanuel Macron.  Since leaving as Cisco’s chairman in December 2017, Chambers has led his own venture capital firm (backed… Source link

Shares of Clover Health Investments, Corp. () breached their previous 52-week high of $24.93 in pre-market Wednesday morning. This added to a total increase in the stock’s value of over 110% in the past week amid a to short the stock. Following market open, its price fell just below Tuesday’s close $22.15. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Tennessee, Clover Health is a Medicare-backed insurance seller with 458 full-time employees and provides preferred provider organization and health… Source link

There is probably a lot of trash in the speculative boom currently taking hold of markets. But hidden amid the meme stocks, SPACs, and crypto coins could be some valuable businesses. “Somewhere in the hundreds of SPACs and scores of meme stocks are some decent companies and potentially even a few huge opportunities,” DataTrek’s Nicholas Colas wrote in a note this week. “For example: Hertz, which was supposed to be a retail investor graveyard, actually exited bankruptcy with its equity… Source link

The meme stock army is showing its support for the OG of the 2021 retail trading movement — GameStop (GME) — ahead of the company’s earnings on Wednesday evening. Shares of GameStop rose as much as 6% to $292 in afternoon trading on Tuesday as fast-money traders positioned themselves prior to the earnings release. GameStop was among the top five most commented stocks on social media, according to data from social monitoring service HypeEquity. Talk on social media of call options on… Source link

Beloved burger and Frosty chain Wendy’s (WEN) has won the honor of being the first fast-food stock to get roped into the red-hot meme stock trade. Shares of Wendy’s spiked 16% in early afternoon trading on Tuesday after a favorable mention by traders on Reddit. The Wendy’s ticker page was the second most trafficked on the Yahoo Finance platform, behind other meme crowd favorite Clover Health (whose stock popped 55% out of nowhere). Wendy’s stock outperformed the slight decline in meme stock… Source link

(Bloomberg) — AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. rose for a second day and Wendy’s Co., the latest addition to the retail-trader frenzy, climbed to a record amid a broader rally in meme stocks. Shares of the theater chain rose as much as 10%, adding to Monday’s 15% gain and continuing what’s been a wild ride for investors. Wendy’s jumped as much as 19% to notch a record as the fast-food restaurant operator gained traction on social media, including several touts on Reddit’s… Source link

Meme stock mania has been mighty kind to the small-cap Russell 2000 Index after its reconstitution last June.  The total market capitalization of the Russell 2000 Index surged 84% from last year’s reconstitution (or the addition and subtraction of new companies to the index) to $3.5 trillion, FTSE Russell said in weekend tweet. This year alone, the Russell 2000 is up more than 16% compared to a 12% gain for the S&P 500. “In 2020, overall capitalization for the U.S. equity market stayed… Source link