** Shares of a few "meme stocks" seeing some of the highest
trading volumes on U.S. exchanges on Monday, with Marin Software
MRIN.O leading the charge with a 33.3% gain and more than 9
mln shares changing hands in premarket trading
** Shares of Sundial Growers Inc SNDL.O and ContextLogic
Inc WISH.O log share volumes of 1.1 mln - 1.2 mln by 8:27 a.m.
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** Shares of all three companies have swung last week in
moves characteristic of the Reddit-inspired rally, with MRIN up
132% last week, WISH up 23%, and SNDL up 5%
** A meme stock rally in January where individual investors
bid up shares of heavily shorted companies triggered a short
squeeze in some stocks such as GameStop Corp GME.N
(Reporting by Shreyashi Sanyal in Bengaluru)
((Shreyashi.Sanyal@thomsonreuters.com;))