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What's Happening with GameStop—and with AMC and BlackBerry—is a Really Big Deal.
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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.

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Jan 27, 2021
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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…

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