Tag: Investing
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Yesterday, high profile hedge fund White Square Capital announced plans to close down after big losses in GameStop. New York-based Mudrick Capital just took a massive loss on AMC. Melvin Capital is down by nearly half as AMC, GameStop and others continue to move against them. These are not isolated…
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It’s no secret that AMC is going vertical lately: But this and other meme stocks may be even hotter than they appear based on prices in public markets like the New York Stock Exchange. The reason is a quirk in how retail orders are handled: The prices of so-called meme…
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Several hedge funds that lost a fortune shorting GameStop in January have sustained further losses betting against meme stocks like AMC: Melvin Capital and Light Street Capital, two US hedge funds hard hit by the January rally in stocks popular with retail investors, suffered further losses in May. Hedge fund…
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Despite losses of over $1 billion last month, short sellers remain attracted to AMC like moths to a flame: Investors shorting “meme stock” AMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC.N) are estimated to have lost about $512 million on Monday after a rally that sent the cinema operator’s shares up more than 15%,…
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On glamorous Madison Avenue in midtown Manhattan, as most people were heading home for the day, the top executives of a powerful hedge fund filed into a conference room. The fate of this multibillion dollar institution could be at stake. This is Mudrick Capital Mangement, L.P. With offices in New…
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March 25, 2020: COVID is sweeping the globe, causing shutdowns worldwide. One casualty: all 1,000 theaters of 100 year old AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. Like many businesses, its ability to remain solvent was in serious doubt. Under these cirumstances, a lot of CEOs arrange a golden parachute for themselves and…
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Shares of Wendy’s exploded today as Reddit’s merry band of traders piled in: 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…
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It’s not just about the Bay Area anymore. Indian startups have raised venture funding at a record pace this year, on track to double from 2020: Startups raised total investments of $7.8 billion in the first four months of this calendar year, which is almost 70% of the overall corpus…
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There have been a lot of winners in GameStop’s dizzying, over tenfold rise in the last year. An unlikely one is the Mormon Church, which made over $8 million on GameStop shares through its investment arm: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ play for stock in GameStop paid…
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+ Business+ Gamestop, GME, Invest, Investing, LDS, Meme stocks, Money, Mormon, Personal finance, Stock Market, Stocks, Utah+
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