I'm Scott Wopner and you're listening to

C. NBC's halftime report, The Podcast, The Most Profitable Hour of the

Trading Day. We record this live weekdays at 12 Eastern, listen in.

Welcome to the halftime report.

I'm Scott Wopner, front and center of this hour.

A mania like we've rarely seen in the stock market.

The Reddit induced short squeeze pushing some names to meteoric rises in a matter of days, in some cases minutes.

Game Stop, obviously at the forefront, not the only one though.

We've got the latest on what's going on and why and what it means to your money. We also have the huge

week ahead for earnings. 13 Dow components, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, all reporting

in the coming days. We'll get you all set up for that too with the investment

committee Joe turnover here Steve Weiss is here Pete Nigerian and Bryn

Talkington is the managing partner at requisite capital management we begin begin though with GameStop, the phenomenon we all have been witnessing as you look at the

major averages there, GameStop all the way on the left.

Yeah, 54% looks pretty good.

Until you consider that the stock was up better than 100 percent at one point today

and maybe about an hour or so ago.

So that stock remains very much in focus.

Steve Weiss, you've seen a lot of markets,

you've seen a lot of crazy things within crazy markets.

I'm wondering how you're viewing this

and what do you think investors should be thinking about

...