AMC Stock Falls After CEO Warns Company Could Be Forced to Sell More ‘APEs’

AMC Entertainment stock closed down sharply Wednesday in the wake of comments from the CEO that the firm may be forced to sell more stock for less money if shareholders don’t approve measures that all...

Founder of WallStreetBets, Which Ignited Meme Stock Frenzy, Is Suing Reddit

The founder of online community WallStreetBets is suing Reddit, the social media platform from which it inspired the meme stock frenzy of 2021.  Jaime Rogozinski, who created the popular Reddit forum ...

The Meme Stock Frenzy Is Back. A Brokerage Chairman Says They’re ‘Horrendous.’

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Bed Bath & Beyond Warned of Bankruptcy. Then Its Stock Soared 166%.

Bed Bath & Beyond shareholders face a growing risk that they could be wiped out in bankruptcy, but you wouldn’t know that by looking at the retailer’s stock this week. Bed Bath stock (ticker: BBBY...

AMC Entertainment Stock Fell Again. 2022 Has Been Rough for Meme Stocks.

AMC Entertainment Holdings stock tumbled this week after the theater chain announced plans to sell stock to a private investment firm. The move extended pain amid what has been a brutal year for meme ...

The U.S. Dollar Is Superstrong. 8 Ways to Invest Abroad.

The U.S. dollar got a brief, welcome walloping this past week, falling 1.5% on Tuesday alone against a basket of six major currencies. It remains up a hefty 17% for the year, and close to its stronges...

Top Meme Stocks And Meme Stock Rallies

Meme stocks, rallies. Getty Images Key Takeaways Many experts thought the meme stock movement would be limited to the pandemic when people were bored at home and looking to stir the pot. However, meme...

AMC Stock Is Out of Whack With APE Shares. Jim Chanos Is Taking Advantage.

Text size AMC’s market capitalization is higher than it was before the pandemic slammed the theater industry. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Legendary stock bear Jim Chanos has an arbitrage idea f...

Meme Stocks And Their Revealing Price Charts

Bed Bath and Beyond store facade in red getty Bed, Bath & Beyond is a meme stock now that identifiable madness is apparent in the recent price action. The stock joins others in that “gotta-be-kidd...

Regal Owner Cineworld Nears Bankruptcy as Theater Comeback Lags

Cineworld Group PLC, the owner of Regal Cinemas, is preparing to file for bankruptcy within weeks after struggling to rebuild movie-theater attendance from pandemic lows, according to people familiar ...

What Investors Need to Know About AMC’s APE Units: A Stock ‘Split on Steroids’

Updated Aug. 17, 2022 4:35 pm ET Listen to article (1 minute) AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. outlined plans this month to issue a special dividend, sending its shares soaring and stoking enthusiasm a...

Coinbase Stock Is Looking Like a Meme Stock. Watch Out, Shorts.

Text size Coinbase is in a tug of war between crypto bulls and bears. Samyukta Lakshmi/Bloomberg Coinbase Global trades like a side bet on Bitcoin. Lately, though, shares of the crypto brokerage have ...

Meme-Stock Investors Are Back! Sort of, Anyway

Individual investors have waded back into the stock market after laying low through the worst of this year’s selloff. But don’t call it a comeback yet.  So-called retail investors in the last two week...

Coinbase Is Looking Like a Meme Stock. Watch Out, Shorts.

Text size Coinbase is in a tug of war between crypto bulls and bears. Samyukta Lakshmi/Bloomberg Coinbase Global trades like a side bet on Bitcoin. Lately, though, shares of the crypto brokerage have ...

GameStop, AMC, EV Startups, and Others Are Among the Most Shorted Stocks

Text size Lordstown Motors is on a list of squeezable stocks. Courtesy Lordstown Motors Investors who have bet against the electric-vehicle industry should take note. Five of 25 U.S. companies that th...

Canoo, Lordstown, Other EV Startups Are at Risk of a ‘Short Squeeze’. Beware.

Text size Lordstown Motors is on a list of squeezable stocks. Courtesy Lordstown Motors Investors who have bet against the electric-vehicle industry should take note. Five of 25 U.S. companies that th...

Switzerland’s Central Bank Bought Apple, AMC, Tesla, and Rivian Stock

Text size Apple stock is holding up better than the broader market. Gabby Jones/Bloomberg The central bank of Switzerland increased positions in some of its largest U.S.-traded equity investments in t...

Largest U.S. Pension Bought AMC, AMD, and Block Stock. It Sold Netflix.

Text size An AMC box office. Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg The largest public pension in America loaded up a high-profile meme stock, and tech stocks, and cut back on a streaming giant before the shares went ...

Market’s 2022 Slide Has Already Changed Investor Behavior

The 2022 pullback in U.S. stocks intensified last week, with stocks on Thursday staging their largest single-day decline since the onset of the pandemic. The plunge came just a day after Federal Reser...

Big Investor Sold AMC and Apple Stock. It Bought PayPal and Pfizer.

Text size An AMC theater Dreamstime A large European asset manager slashed its investment in the volatile shares of a movie-theater chain, and made other changes in its U.S.-traded stock portfolio. DN...

Missed the Dip in Stocks? Where to Find Yields of 3% to 6%.

I sneezed, and missed the buying opportunity in stocks. The S&P 500 was down 13% at one point this year. It ended the first quarter with a loss of just 4.6%, including dividends. But all of the ba...

A New Meme-Stock Frenzy Led AMC to Gold Mine Stake

Day traders looking to capitalize on commodity price volatility catalyzed a chain reaction that ended with movie theater giant AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc.’s unusual deal to take a stake in a gold-...

Hedge Fund Melvin Lost $6.8 Billion in a Month. Winning It Back Is Taking a Lot Longer.

Gabe Plotkin wasn’t sleeping. His bets against meme stocks such as GameStop Corp. GME 4.69% were backfiring, and losses at his $12.5 billion hedge fund were mounting. Strangers angry about his wagers ...

Where Six Meme Stock Investors Are Now

Some regret their exuberance. Others value the lessons they learned. Still others are convinced big profits lie ahead. Months after interviewing them in 2021, we checked back in with some of the inves...

Big Investor Tripled Its AMC Stake and Bought Apple, NIO, and Nikola Stock

Text size DNB Asset Management materially raised investments in some of the most volatile stocks, including AMC Entertainment, Apple, NIO, and Nikola. Ethan Miller/Getty Images A large European asset ...