The biggest news from this past week has been the resurgence of the infamous meme stocks GameStop (GME) and AMC (AMC). As you may remember, back in January GameStop was made famous when the Reddit group WallStreetBets and in particular a user named Roaring Kitty, urged retail investors to buy and hold the stock because it was being short sold by big hedge funds. I went into detail about the whole situation in a previous blog post.
Prior to the stock reaching its peak price of $347.51, it was selling around $10-$15 per share. Within less than a two-week span, the stock price shot up more than 10 times its normal trading value and then came crashing back down. At the same time, AMC’s stock price was trading around $2 per share and shot up to $19.90. Both stocks have been trading higher than previously but nowhere near their all-time high prices. There was another bull run on these stocks in mid-March and then prices lowered again.
These two companies, AMC in particular, were the subject to another bull run driven by retail investors who are countering hedge funds attempting to short sell the stocks again. AMC started the week around $12 per share and is ending the week at $26. GameStop went from around $170 at the beginning of the week up to $222 to end the week. AMC’s stock price more than doubled in one week!
In other news, the crypto market has been on a downward spiral lately, and the announcement that came out on Wednesday regarding Iran banning bitcoin mining due to power outage problems didn’t help. Many large cities in Iran have been experiencing daily power outages and Iranian officials blame part of the problem on bitcoin and other cryptocurrency mining. This ban is effective immediately and will be in place until September 22nd of this year.
Do you think the crypto market will bounce back even after Iran and China have recently banned cryptocurrencies? What’s your thoughts on the rise of memes stocks like AMC and GameStop? Leave me a comment and let me know your thoughts. Don’t forget to follow me on social media, I post investment news every weekday on my Twitter.
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