The so-called “BANG” stocks, or a mixed collection of some of the more popular “meme” stocks, were mostly higher in premarket trading Monday, while futures suggest a mixed open for the broader market. Shares of BlackBerry Ltd. rose 1.9% ahead of the open, AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. rallied 2.6%, Nokia Corp. slipped 0.3% and GameStop Corp. climbed 1.1%. The moves come after the group was mostly lower on Friday, with BlackBerry pulling back 12.7% to snap a 6-day win streak, AMC dropped 6.7%, Nokia was unchanged and GameStop shed 3.8%. The gains also come while futures for the S&P 500 are slipping less than 0.1% and Dow Jones Industrial Average futures rose 44 points, or 0.1%, while Nasdaq 100 futures lost 0.1%.
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