** Shares of videogame retailer GameStop surge nearly 40% to $42.44 premarket after a 74% jump on Monday when "Roaring Kitty" returned to X.com after a three-year interval
** Theater chain AMC Entertainment up 36% to $7.06 after a near 79% surge in the prior session
** Keith Gill, known as "Roaring Kitty" on YouTube and "DeepF***ingValue" on Reddit, helped spark trading frenzy in GameStop shares in 2021 with online posts
** Both GME and AMC were the top trending stocks on Stocktwits on Tuesday, a retail trader-focussed trading and social media platform
** Other highly-shorted stocks that were part of the meme stock phenomenon in previous years such as Blackberry ADRs
, Big Lots , Koss Corp up between 16%-25.6% before the bell
(Reporting by Nikhil Sharma in Bengaluru)
((Nikhil.Sharma@thomsonreuters.com))
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