GameStop shares jump 13% premarket as stock looks poised for another day of high-volume activity

GameStop Corp. shares
GME,
+18.56%
rose 13% in premarket trade Friday, and looked poised for another day of high-volume activity. The videogame retailer’s stock is on track for gains of 168% on the week after a move that began late Wednesday and continued through Thursday. In the absence of market-moving news, the move is again being attributed to activity on Reddit’s WallStreetBets forum. Other meme stocks that were swept up in a trading frenzy in January were also active. AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc.
AMC,
-8.80%
was down 0.2%, BlackBerry Ltd.
BB,
-6.54%
was down 2.4%, Naked Brand Group Ltd.
NAKD,
-15.56%
was down 4% and Koss Corp.
KOSS,
+16.76%
was down 8%. Year-to-date, GameStop has gained 477%, while AMC is up 291%, after investors on that Reddit forum sought to create a short squeeze in both stocks in January. The unusual moves led to a congressional committee hearing last week at which executives from Reddit, the trading app Robinhood, Citadel and Melvin Capital answered questions, alongside individual investor Keith Gill – aka ‘Roaring Kitty