** Shares of blank-check company Aurora Technology
Acquisition Corp ATAK.O rally 128.4% premarket
** The highly volatile stock rose as much as over 1000% to
$125 in early session before easing to $24.0
** ATAK had a market cap of $112.04 mln as of Thursday
close, and of the nearly 10.7 million shares outstanding, only
5.11 million are traded on free-float basis, as per LSEG data
** Low free-float could make the stock vulnerable to
outsized moves
** Other SPACs such as Sportsmap Tech Acquisition SMAP.O
and Brilliant Acquisition BRLI.O up 37% and 47%, respectively,
before the bell
** BRLI and SMAP trending as #6 and #14 tickers on
Stocktwits, a website popular with amateur traders
(Reporting by Sruthi Shankar in Bengaluru)
((sruthi.shankar@thomsonreuters.com;))