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Hertz, Chesapeake Energy Leading The 'Bankruptcy Bubble'

Stocks that have declared bankruptcy or are on the brink of bankruptcy have been among the best market performers in the past week. In his daily newsletter on Tuesday, Whitney Tilson warned investors of the seemingly obvious danger of buying shares of bankrupt companies.A Bankruptcy Example: While a handful of bankrupt companies maintain some level of equity value for investors, the vast majority of bankrupt stocks ultimately go to $0. Auto, airline and other stocks have gone through bankruptcies in the past and still hold equity value today. However, part of their bankruptcy reorganization included delisting their previous stock and ultimately relisting news shares of the restructured company.For example, General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) filed for bankruptcy in 2009 and today has a $42 billion market cap. The old GM shares were delisted, renamed Motor Liquidation Company, and the ticker was changed to MTLQQ. In March 2011, MTLQQ stock was canceled...

Nano-Cap Drugmaker Surges 1,000% as Retail Enthusiasm Spreads

(Bloomberg) -- Nano-cap Immuron Ltd. saw shares surge more than ten-fold on Tuesday afternoon as euphoria for retail traders took to the biopharmaceutical industry.The Australia-based company, which was valued at roughly $9 million coming into Tuesday’s session, saw its American depository receipts change hands at a record clip as retail investors cheered and Twitter users were left confused. More than 74 million shares were traded Tuesday which compares to a one-year average volume of less than 100 thousand.The biopharmaceutical company disclosed earlier that the Naval Medical Research Center, its partner, requested a regulatory meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration so it could test its drug for the prevention of acute infectious diarrhea. The pair will plan to start a pair of mid-stage trials sometime in the first half of next year if all goes well with regulators.Tuesday’s 850% gain marked the firm’s best single session since going public in...