Inflation data, consumer confidence: What to know this week. Investors this week are poised to receive several key economic data reports offering the latest look at the state of inflation in the U.S., with investors and consumers alike jittery at the prospects of rising prices during the post-pandemic recovery. Heading into this week's PCE report, several other inflation prints have also exceeded expectations, pointing to an increase in both consumer and producer prices. Government data showed that headline consumer prices surged by a faster than expected 4.2% last month. Excluding food and energy, prices jumped 0.9% in April and were up 3.0% over the year. And producer prices also came in higher than expected, with core producer prices rising 4.1% in April over last year versus the 3.8% increase expected. These stronger-than-expected increases could portend some upside risk to this week's PCE print, some economists suggested.

Investors shorting meme stocks GameStop and AMC Entertainment are estimated to have lost $754 million on Tuesday alone as the shares rallied, data from financial analytics firm Ortex shows.

Shares in GameStop, which was at the heart of the so-called "stonks" retail trading mania earlier this year, rose 8% to nearly $225 in U.S. premarket trading on Wednesday, a day after rising 18%. Shares in cinema operator AMC soared 39%. Short interest in AMC is currently estimated to be 21% of free-float and in GME it is estimated at 17% of free-float, according to Refinitiv data. The meme stock mothership is blasting off again.

Shares in videogame retailer GameStop GME, +16.34% were on a tear Tuesday, rising 16% and breaking above $200 a share for the first time since mid-March in a move that prompted retail investors who like the stock to rejoice at yet another surge for the heavily-shorted stock.

AMC Entertainment AMC, +19.96% had an even stronger day, climbing almost 20% and adding to its staggering gains in May.

Meme stocks have been showing signs of life in recent weeks with GameStop up more than 25% in May and AMC Entertainment soaring more than 60% in the same period as both companies have leveraged their massive and loyal social media following to execute new equity offerings and pay down huge debt loads.

Tuesday’s major gains came despite all three major indices DJIA, -0.24% SPX, -0.21% COMP, -0.03% ending down slightly for the day.

For GameStop, Tuesday’s breakout comes after weeks of concerted effort on message boards to get GME’s Reddit army back on the march against hedge funds who they believe are still shorting the stock. Just last week, rumblings of another short squeeze on both GME and AMC were percolating almost everywhere on social media.

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