GameStop, other meme stocks surging again
Hannah Denham, The Washington Post
Feb. 25, 2021
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GameStop shares swelled 19% Thursday after surging as much as 88% in afternoon trading as retail investors returned to the shorted stock that set off a trading frenzy last month that shocked Wall Street and sparked federal scrutiny.
GameStop closed at $109.15, pushing the video game retailer s market cap past $7.6 billion, even as the broader market slumped. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 559.85 points, nearly 1.8%, to 31,402.01. The S&P 500 shed 96.09 points, or nearly 2.5%, to 3,829.34, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq tumbled 478.53 points, or 3.5%, to end at 13,119.43.
Other shorted stocks that have attracted intense interest, propelled by online investor communities such as the subreddit WallStreetBets, also advanced. Koss jumped 17%, to $21.53 per share, after soaring as much as 48%, and AMC Entertainment slid almost 9%, to $8.29, after adding 5%.
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