Dennis Dick

During one of the most intense earnings weeks of the season, all of Wall Street and most of America has been focused on another incredible investing drama unfolding on an hour-by-hour basis. The WallStreetBets Reddit community sent shares of stocks like GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) and AMC...

The S&P 500 dropped 1.3% on Wednesday morning, while shares of video game retailer GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) and other highly shorted stocks once again skyrocketed. Broken Pricing Mechanism: On Wednesday morning’s Benzinga PreMarket Prep show, co-host Dennis Dick discussed the crazy...

A handful of heavily shorted stocks experienced extremely volatile trading on Monday morning, leading some experts to speculate the 2021 short squeeze trade may have finally run out of steam. The poster child of the short squeeze trade, video game retailer GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME), traded as high...

GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) shares soared another 40% on Friday to a new all-time high, and a spat between GameStop short seller Citron Research and an army of speculative online GameStop traders appears to have gotten personal. Left’s Allegations: On Friday, Citron editor Andrew Left tweeted...

It's been an unimaginably strange year across the board.  At PreMarket Prep, we decided to look back at some of our best moments of the year. From a once-in-a-lifetime prediction on XpresSpa Group Inc (NASDAQ: XSPA) by our CEO, to the first mention of the SPAC that would become Nikola...

Traders will be looking out for some major volatility in the markets in the coming days as part of significant rebalancing in both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100. What Is Rebalancing? S&P Global and Nasdaq Inc (NASDAQ: NDAQ) adjust the constituents of their popular S&P 500 and Nasdaq...

Apartment Investment and Management Co (NYSE: AIV) shares traded lower by 85.7% on Tuesday ahead of the stock being kicked from the S&P 500 and replaced by Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) next Monday. But while it may seem at first glance that institutional investors are dumping the stock in droves,...

One of the most highly anticipated IPOs of 2020 hit the ground running Wednesday, but DoorDash's eye-popping valuation out of the gate is already raising some eyebrows. What Happened? Food delivery service DoorDash Inc (NYSE: DASH) priced its IPO shares at $102 on Tuesday night, above the...

Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: KODK) shares skyrocketed 222% on Tuesday after the company announced it's pivoting to drug ingredient development and announced a large government loan. Benzinga's PreMarket Prep co-host Dennis Dick said on Tuesday morning’s show that he noticed some...

Stock market fragmentation is a hot topic of debate on Wall Street, but Benzinga’s PreMarket Prep co-host Dennis Dick said Friday that he’s getting increasingly frustrated with trading in such a fragmented market. Fragmentation refers to the fact that there are 13 exchanges and more...

Benzinga's PreMarket Prep airs every morning from 8-9 a.m. ET. During that fast-paced, highly informative hour, traders and investors tune in to get the major news of the day, the catalysts behind those moves and the corresponding price action for the upcoming session. On any given...

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) has become the latest Wall Street mania stock, making huge moves on a daily basis despite a lack of any meaningful fundamental news from the company. Tesla seems to be trading mostly on momentum and technicals these days, and Benzinga’s PreMarket Prep co-host Dennis...

On Friday, July 10, Benzinga's founder and CEO Jason Raznick analyzed on Benzinga's PreMarket Prep trading show potential buying opportunities in Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA), given the recent run-up and existing market dynamics. Raznick told listeners he received a message from...

Many tech stocks have been incredibly strong this past couple of months, and PreMarket Prep co-host Dennis Dick isn't confident enough to chase any of them. Except, that is, for Shopify Inc (NYSE: SHOP). The Canadian e-commerce platform surged 140% from April to early May, making it one of...

The New York Stock Exchange and its owner Intercontinental Exchange Inc (NYSE: ICE) are opening the NYSE trading floor back up to traders Tuesday for the first time in over two months. The NYSE is taking substantial precautions to ensure it is complying with social distancing requirements and...