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GameStop shares lost 60 percent of their value on February 2, closing below $100 for the first time in a week. [ 65 ] [ 66 ] Reports estimated that about $27 billion in value had been erased. [ 66 ] [ 67 ] Other assets affected by the short squeeze and put under company trading restrictions, such as AMC and Blackberry shares, also declined in ...
In early 2021 the fund lost over 30% due to numerous short bets that went awry, including GameStop. [23] Users of the subreddit r/WallStreetBets made widespread bets believing that GameStop's stock would increase in value. [24] In January, Citadel and Point72 invested $2.75 billion in Melvin in exchange for non-controlling revenue shares of the ...
Dumb Money is a 2023 American biographical comedy-drama film, directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo. It is based on the 2021 book The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich and chronicles the GameStop short squeeze of January 2021.
“Dumb Money” whisks us back to a time in American history, the year 2020, when Keith Gill, a Reddit and YouTube demi-celebrity, cranked up the poor little GameStop stock to improbable heights.
NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday released a report examining the frenzied trading in shares of retailer GameStop Corp, and other 'meme' stocks, in January ...
In January 2021, Cohen's hedge fund Point72 joined Ken Griffin's Citadel in putting $2.75 billion into Melvin Capital, the hedge fund of former Cohen protege Gabe Plotkin, as a result of the GameStop short squeeze. [27] [28] Cohen denied that his involvement with the short squeeze would affect his willingness to spend money on the New York Mets ...
GameStop's first quarter came in worse than Wall Street had hoped, with revenue of $1.24 billion coming in short of analysts expectations for $1.34 billion. Shares of GameStop fell nearly 20% at ...
However, his compensation decreased in 2021, due to the impact of the GameStop short squeeze on the fund. [9] Despite receiving $2 billion from Kenneth C. Griffin and $750 million from Steve Cohen, on May 18, 2021, Bloomberg announced Melvin Capital went defunct shorting GameStop and Gabe Plotkin would be shutting down his firm. [10]