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GameStop stock sank on Monday as the company announced plans for a private exchange of $1.4 billion of its debt for common stock.

Investing.com - U.S. stock index futures advanced on Monday after President Donald Trump said negotiations with Iran were set to begin this week, easing geopolitical concerns that had rattled markets in recent weeks, while technology stocks attempted to extend their recovery following July’s sharp pullback.

XPLR Infrastructure (NYSE:XIFR) said it continued to simplify its capital structure and advance its repowering and energy-storage development plans during the second quarter of 2026, while reaffirming its full-year financial outlook. President and Chief Executive Officer Alan Liu said the company c

GameStop chief executive Ryan Cohen is pressing ahead with a long-shot pursuit of eBay despite Wall Street scepticism, quietly amassing a nearly...

Videogame retailer GameStop owns nearly 10% ‌of e-commerce company eBay, the ‌company said in a regulatory filing ​late on Friday, nearly three months after making an unsolicited offer to buy eBay ‌for roughly $56 ⁠billion. GameStop said it owns 43.4 million outstanding shares ⁠of eBay, or 9.8%, marking a dramatic increase in ownership ​from early ​May ​when GameStop CEO ‌Ryan Cohen told eBay's board chairman "we have accumulated a 5% economic stake" through derivatives and beneficial ownership. GameStop bought 3.5 million ‌eBay shares for ​roughly $381 million last ​month ​and said it settled ‌39 million eBay ​shares from ​put/call pairs on Friday.

Investing.com -- GameStop Corp. Chief Executive Officer Ryan Cohen said he will not back down from his pursuit of eBay Inc., despite the online auction company's rejection of his $56 billion takeover bid.

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GameStop shareholders approved a routine-sounding item on Tuesday: more authorized Class A shares. The timing complicates that read. Six days earlier, Sony confirmed it will stop manufacturing physical PlayStation game discs starting in January 2028, closing the book on the exact product category ...

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Investors approved all proposals at the annual meeting, giving the videogame retailer greater flexibility for future strategic transactions.

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Jack in the Box stock shot up more than 20% this week. The stock also faces 40% short interest, according to MarketSurge.

Investing.com -- Sony Interactive Entertainment dealt the physical gaming market a landmark blow on Wednesday, announcing that disc production for all new PlayStation games will cease in January 2028, a watershed moment for console gaming. The company's own data shows that nearly four in five full-game purchases on PS4 and PS5 were made digitally over the past year, providing the commercial rationale for a policy that applies to every publisher, not just Sony's first-party titles.

Jack in the Box stock shot up more than 20% on Monday. The stock also faces 40% short interest, according to MarketSurge.

GameStop (NYSE:GME) shares rose 1. 4% in premarket trading to $22.

GameStop (GME) tried to buy eBay once already, and the answer was no. That rejection would have ended most takeover attempts. Cohen is not backing down. Instead, GameStop spent the following weeks building a bigger position and a stronger balance sheet, the opposite of what a retreat looks like. In ...

GameStop pledged on Friday to pursue its proposed ‌takeover of eBay, even after ‌the e-commerce firm rejected an unsolicited cash-and-stock offer ​of about $56 billion from the videogame retailer. GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen had surprised Wall Street with the offer to ‌buy eBay ⁠in May to turn it into a bigger competitor to ⁠Amazon. GameStop also expects to generate adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation ​and amortization ​of more than $600 ​million in fiscal ‌2026, compared with $345.4 million reported in fiscal 2025, it said in a regulatory filing.

Wendy’s shares are surging another 10% this morning, in what appears to be a short squeeze of the restaurant chain’s stock. The premarket rally stands to build on Wendy’s 26% jump yesterday. The moves have all the hallmarks of the kind of short squeeze that made headlines in 2021, when retail investors banded together online to send shares of companies like GameStop and AMC Entertainment soaring—and inflict painful losses on hedge funds that had placed short bets on the stocks.

Owning shares in a floundering company is psychological torture. The person answering them might be a superstar CEO like Steve Jobs or a takeover artist like Carl Icahn. GameStop had the same gain in six weeks that Apple did in the first 10 years with Jobs back at the helm.

Wendy’s shares soared more than 20% today as the restaurant chain got attention from retail investors, who rallied behind the stock on social media. Users poured into a Reddit forum called “WallStreetBets”–known for sparking huge rallies of other so-called meme-stock trades like GameStop–yesterday evening with messages like, “We need to save Wendy’s before it’s too late.

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The proposed CEO Performance Award was a large stock option package for Ryan Cohen that GameStop’s board approved in January 2026.

The athletic retailer’s performance business needs to grow up to 25% to hit guidance, according to analysts, while the game company reported the highest quarterly net income in its history.

Yahoo Finance's Julie Hyman takes a closer look at two of Wednesday's trending stories. GameStop (GME) reported first quarter earnings, posting its highest profit ever and growing revenue. IREN (IREN) stock is in focus after the company signed a deal to support an artificial intelligence (AI) data center campus in Australia.

On this episode of Stock Movers with John Tucker: - Macy's (M) shares are on the move after it lifted its sales outlook for the year, a sign that the company's focus on growing its luxury business and improving its assortment is paying off. - GameStop (GME) shares are climbing after the video-game retailer reported a record quarterly profit driven by its collectibles business. Sales overall climbed 14% to $835.3 million. Net income of $389.6 million was the highest ever for a quarter in the company's history, GameStop said in a regulatory filing Tuesday. - Palo Alto (PANW) shares are dropping as the security software company reported results following a 61% year-to-date rally. The company reported third-quarter results that beat the average analyst expectation and raised its full-year forecast for key metrics, but failed to meet elevated buyside expectations.

Net income climbed to $389.6m from $44.8m, boosted in part by an unrealised gain on derivative asset of $268.4m, reflecting put and call option transactions linked to eBay common stock.

June S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESM26) are trending down -0.05% this morning as oil prices and bond yields climbed after the U.S. and Iran exchanged heavy fire in the Persian Gulf.

Japan’s Nikkei 225 index topped 68,000 for the first time on Wednesday after U.S. stocks pushed further into record territory. The dollar briefly surpassed 160 Japanese yen before slipping back slightly. Buying of technology shares linked to the boom in artificial intelligence has been driving rallies worldwide.

GameStop may not have successfully courted eBay but the retailer reported its biggest quarter on record. GameStop on Tuesday reported net income of $389.6 million, with operating income up to $143.3 million. The company said that’s the highest quarterly net income on record and its highest operating income in a first-quarter.

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen shared few details when he said he would do "whatever we need to do" to buy eBay after the e-commerce company rejected his $56 billion unsolicited takeover bid as "neither credible nor attractive." In early May, Cohen offered eBay's board $125 a share as well as his services as CEO. Half the offer was in cash and half in stock, with the cash portion ‌coming from GameStop's $9.4 billion in cash reserves.