Meme stocks rise on final day of quarter

Farmmi

30/09/2021 13:17

** Stocks popular among retail investors firmed on Thursday,
the last trading day of September and the quarter
    ** Topping the volume charts across U.S. exchanges at 7:55
a.m. ET are China-based farming co Farmmi Inc  FAMI.N , up 24%
at 42 cents, and Camber Energy  CEI.N , up 15.2% at $3.94, both
among the most touted on stocktwits.com
    ** Farmmi on Wednesday announced a deal to buy another
agriculture company and said it was expanding its health and
wellness segment, sending its stock up more than 40%
    ** FAMI shares, which hit a record low after announcing a
$81 mln stock offering in mid-Sept, are down 15% for the month
and 71% on the year  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N2QF2ZV
    ** Camber Energy has seen only four session of losses in the
20 trading days of September so far, taking its MTD gains to
581%
    ** Virgin Galactic  SPCE.N  jumps 9.3% premarket after the
regulator lifted a grounding order on its spaceflight Unity 22;
stock has halved in value this quarter  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N2QV31K
    ** Lordstown Motors  RIDE.O  climbs 6% on a report co is
near deal to sell Ohio car plant to Taiwan's Foxconn Technology
 2354.TW   urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N2QW2Z4
    ** Other meme stocks, cinema chain AMC  AMC.N , biopharma co
 OCGN.O  add 1% and 3.7%, respectively; e-commerce firm Vinco
Ventures Inc  BBIG.O  dips 0.7%

 (Reporting by Medha Singh)
 ((medha.singh@thomsonreuters.com))