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Daily Money: AMC investors remain confident; Amazon Prime Day scheduled

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Good morning, Daily Money friends, it's Nathan welcoming you to Wednesday!

Just like Black Friday has become more than a single day, Amazon's Prime Day is more than a day too.

Amazon announced it's set for June 21-22. The company says it will have more than 2 million deals globally for its earliest ever annual Prime Day.

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💡 INSIGHT OF THE DAY: In the latest you-read-that-right moment of the meme stock crazy, AMC Entertainment's shares are rising despite what most analysts would consider bad news. The company issued new shares to an investor that promptly sold them for a profit, reportedly viewing AMC's stock as overvalued. But for some reason, that's inspired further confidence in the shares among retail investors.

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Thanks for reading!

--@NathanBomey

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