What's Happening with GameStop—and with AMC and BlackBerry—is a Really Big Deal.
A timeline of the troll-y war that Reddit, TikTok, and YouTube waged on Wall Street's hedge funds through 'Gamestonk'—and what we can learn from it.
At the beginning of 2021, one share of GameStop stock ($GME) traded for around $17. Last week, that number began to climb. On Friday, Jan. 22, the price surged more than 70%, triggering a halt in trading. On Monday, Jan. 25, the price again soared so high it prompted the New York Stock Exchange to halt trading 9 times. By this morning, GME had climbed t…