LONDON (Reuters) - Short-sellers are estimated to have lost $818 million on Wednesday from their bearish bets on videogame maker Gamestop, data from financial analytics firm Ortex showed.
GameStop’s shares shot up higher again on Thursday a day after doubling in value, sparking a fresh retail trading frenzy in the stock that had been at the center of a historic short squeeze in January.
Reporting by Thyagaraju Adinarayan; editing by Sujata Rao
Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.