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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.

GameStop asked its shareholders to approve an increase in its share count. The video game retailer made the request in a Friday letter to shareholders, in which the company's board also proposed giving its chief executive, Ryan Cohen, a 100% performance-based option award. "A reserve of authorized shares ensures GameStop can act decisively when the right opportunity arises," the company said in the letter.

Investing.com -- GameStop has increased its stake in eBay to approximately 6.6% from around 5%, according to a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday.

GameStop has increased its stake in eBay to ‌about 6.55%, the videogame retailer ‌disclosed in a filing on Tuesday, days ​after the e-commerce company rejected its $56 billion takeover bid. GameStop previously owned around a 5% stake in eBay and ‌some analysts said ⁠its CEO Ryan Cohen could eventually push for a ⁠special shareholder meeting or seek board representation more supportive of his ​proposal. In an ​interview with journalist ​Piers Morgan last ‌week, Cohen had said eBay's board had a responsibility to engage with his offer in the best interests of shareholders, adding that "we'll do ‌whatever we need to ​do" if it failed ​to ​do so.

GameStop said in a filing last night that it now controls the equivalent of 6.55% of the company’s outstanding shares, up from around 5%, as it keeps trying to take over the e-commerce business. Shares in both GameStop and eBay are little changed in premarket trading.

Disgruntled millennial Ryan Cohen has had an interesting week.

TELUS (NYSE:TU) reported first-quarter 2026 results marked by continued customer additions, stable profitability and higher free cash flow, while management emphasized cost controls, asset monetization and growth in health, digital and artificial intelligence-related businesses. On the company’s ea

When eBay roundly rejected a takeover approach from GameStop on Tuesday, one reason was its suitor’s governance. True, it was the sixth reason...

When eBay roundly rejected a takeover approach from GameStop on Tuesday, one reason was its suitor’s governance. True, it was the sixth reason...

Semis took a breather, and so did stocks. A reversal for the semiconductor sector brought the market to a standstill. The S&P 500 fell 0.2%, and the Nasdaq composite dropped 0.7%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added just 56 points, or 0.

What Happened in Markets Today Semis took a breather, and so did stocks. A reversal for the semiconductor sector brought the market to a standstill. The S&P 500 fell 0.2%, and the Nasdaq composite dropped 0.

All three major US stock indexes were down in late-morning trading after April inflation data came i