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A GameStop store in 2014. GameStop, an American chain of brick-and-mortar video game stores, had struggled in the years leading up to the short squeeze due to competition from digital distribution services, as well as the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which reduced the number of people who shopped in-person.
The uptick rule is a trading restriction that states that short selling a stock is allowed only on an uptick. For the rule to be satisfied, the short must be either at a price above the last traded price of the security, or at the last traded price when the most recent movement between traded prices was upward (i.e. the security has traded below the last-traded price more recently than above ...
A used game rack for GameCube games at a GameStop in San Bruno, California GameStop provides its customers either cash or trade credit in exchange for customers' unwanted video games, accessories, and tech. [ 213 ] The used video game trade-ins have twice the gross margins of new video game sales. [ 214 ]
GameStop (stock ticker symbol GME), an American video game retailer; General Microelectronics, a defunct American semiconductor manufacturer; General Motors Egypt; General Motors Europe; Green Mountain Energy, American company; Guardian Media Entertainment, collaboration between the National Hockey League and comics creator Stan Lee
Short selling is a form of speculation that allows a trader to take a "negative position" in a stock of a company. Such a trader first borrows shares of that stock from their owner (the lender), typically via a bank or a prime broker under the condition that they will return it on demand. Next, the trader sells the borrowed shares and delivers ...
Both of the reasons mentioned above are "regulatory" trading halts and are implemented on many major stock exchanges (for example, the NYSE American, NASDAQ, and New York Stock Exchange). When a United States exchange enacts a regulatory halt for a security, other U.S. exchanges that also trade the security will honor the halt. [1]
Interest in meme stocks started in 2020, [4] in what the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has called a "meme stock phenomenon". [12] The stock of American video game retailer GameStop has been one of the most popular meme stocks, [13] [14] with mass purchases of the stock leading to a short squeeze on GameStop in early 2021. [5]
This is a list of companies having stocks that are included in the S&P SmallCap 600 stock market index. The index, maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices, comprises the common stocks of 600 small-cap, mostly American, companies. Although called the S&P 600, the index contains 602 stocks because it includes two share classes of stock from 2 of its ...