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GameStop Extends Meteoric Stock Surge on Boost From Musk Tweet

GameStop Corp. store in the Herald Square area of New York, U.S. Photographer: Gabriela Bhaskar/Bloomberg

(Bloomberg) -- GameStop Corp. continued its skyward march in U.S. premarket trading after an Elon Musk tweet fanned the flames of the stock’s jaw-dropping rally that has sent the company’s market value surging beyond $10 billion.

By Paul Jarvis

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The stock rose as high as $260, up 76% from the last close of $147.98. That followed Tuesday’s 93% surge, which meant GameStop has risen more than eightfold this month in a dizzying rally fueled by Reddit-charged day traders.

Following a frenzied session on Tuesday, the stock’s gains reached new extremes outside regular hours after Tesla Inc. chief Musk tweeted a link to a Reddit thread about the company. Famed fund manager Michael Burry warned that the manic rally has gotten out of hand, calling the stock’s rise “unnatural, insane, and dangerous.”

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GameStop’s surge has captivated Wall Street and stymied short sellers including Gabe Plotkin’s Melvin Capital and Andrew Left’s Citron Research. It has also spurred calls for a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, though experts say it’s difficult to prove chat-room posts are part of an illicit scheme to manipulate the market.

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