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Forget GameStop; AMC’s insane surge sets new meme-stock tests

Shares in movie chain AMC doubled on Wednesday night in a GameStop-like rally. But this time the retail army faces two fascinating tests. 

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The best thing about a late stage bull market – and that’s surely what we’re in right now – is that there’s always something crazier just around the corner.

And so it proved on Wednesday night, when a struggling US movie theatre company called AMC saw its stock surge 95 per cent in a single day’s trade on Wall Street, to take its year-to-date gains to a mind-boggling 3011.9 per cent.

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James Thomson is senior Chanticleer columnist based in Melbourne. He was the Companies editor and editor of BRW Magazine. Connect with James on Twitter. Email James at j.thomson@afr.com

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