{"id":13096,"date":"2025-02-14T13:01:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T13:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=13096"},"modified":"2025-02-14T13:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T13:01:39","slug":"gamestop-stock-surges-over-8-in-friday-pre-market-whats-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=13096","title":{"rendered":"GameStop Stock Surges Over 8% In Friday Pre-Market: What&#8217;s Going On?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>GameStop Corp.<\/strong>\u00a0(NYSE:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/GME#NYSE\">GME<\/a>), the renowned video game retailer is trading 8.6% higher in Friday pre-market amid reports of investments in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: GameStop is exploring the possibility of diversifying its investments into\u00a0alternative asset classes, such as cryptocurrencies, with a particular focus on bitcoin (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>),<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/general\/gaming\/25\/02\/43715293\/gamestop-stock-jumps-on-report-its-considering-bitcoin-crypto-investments\"> indicated a\u00a0CNBC report. <\/a>This news triggered a surge in GameStop\u2019s shares, which skyrocketed by up to 20% in extended trading.<\/p>\n<p>However, the company may decide against proceeding with these investments as it is still assessing whether such a move aligns with its business strategy, as revealed by an insider.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s noteworthy that GameStop had previously launched crypto wallets in 2022, enabling users &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/02\/43727179\/gamestop-stock-surges-over-8-in-pre-market-trading-on-friday-on-reports-of-cryptocurrency-investments\" alt=\"GameStop\" stock surges over in friday pre-market: what going on>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GameStop Corp.\u00a0(NYSE:GME), the renowned video game retailer is trading 8.6% higher in Friday pre-market amid reports of investments in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. What Happened: GameStop is exploring the possibility of diversifying its investments into\u00a0alternative asset classes, such as cryptocurrencies, with a particular focus on bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), indicated a\u00a0CNBC report. This news triggered a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-13096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}