GameStop Stock Had Its Best Day Since 2021. Surprise Earnings Squeezed Shorts.

GameStop's Earnings Surprise Is Squeezing Shorts. Meme Stocks Are Rallying.

GameStop ‘s first profitable quarter since January 2021 sent the stock surging. GameStop stock (ticker: GME) rose 35% to $23.87 on Wednesday. Shares traded at $27 earlier in the session. The gain was GameStop’s largest percentage increase since March 25, 2021, when it rose 53%, according to Dow Jones Market Data. On Tuesday evening, the … Read more

First Republic Bank Explores Options, Including Sale. The Stock Is Up.

First Republic Stock Falls Despite $30 Billion Big Banks Rescue Package

The bank has hired advisors Lazard (ticker: LAZ) and McKinsey & Co. as it explores options including a sale or trimming assets, a person familiar with the matter told Barron’s. News of Lazard’s involvement was reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal. Wall Street CEOs and U.S. officials are exploring the possibility of government backing … Read more

GameStop’s Earnings Surprise Is Squeezing Shorts. Meme Stocks Are Rallying.

GameStop's Earnings Surprise Is Squeezing Shorts. Meme Stocks Are Rallying.

GameStop ‘s first profitable quarter since January 2021 sent the stock surging. The move is squeezing short sellers and lifting AMC Entertainment and Bed Bath & Beyond shares, too. GameStop stock (ticker: GME) was up 33%, at $23.56, in recent trading, paring some gains seen in premarket trading. On Tuesday evening, the company reported earnings … Read more

Credit Suisse, UBS, First Republic, New York Community, PacWest, and More Movers

Credit Suisse, UBS, First Republic, New York Community, PacWest, and More Movers

American depositary receipts of Swiss bank Credit Suisse (ticker: CS) plunged more than 47% to about 83 cents after larger rival UBS (UBS) agreed to buy Credit Suisse in a deal valued at about $3.2 billion. The merger of Switzerland’s two largest banks—engineered over the weekend by Swiss authorities—comes against a backdrop of industry turmoil. U.S.-listed shares … Read more

First Republic Stock Falls Despite $30 Billion Big Banks Rescue Package

First Republic Stock Falls Despite $30 Billion Big Banks Rescue Package

Regional bank stocks fell Friday even after the country’s biggest lenders agreed to inject $30 billion in uninsured deposits into First Republic Bank . The rescue plan, involving many of America’s largest banks, including Bank of America (ticker: BAC), Citigroup (C), and JPMorgan Chase (JPM), initially brought some relief to shares of regional banks but … Read more