a memestock rally heated up in afternoon trading monday leading to a brief volatilityrelated halt in shares of amc entertainment holdings inc amc amc shares were halted at 328 pm eastern time monday before trading resumed at 333 pm shares were recently up 14 though they were up as much as 204 earlier monday shares of fellow meme stock gamestop inc gme were enjoying a sharp move higher as well in monday’s action up nearly 8 shortly before the close of trading after surging as much as 118 earlier in the trading day those gains paled in comparison to bed bath  beyond inc’s bbby 91 rally in monday afternoon action that stock was halted twice and achieved intraday gains of as much as 130 amc shares are up 69 so far in 2023 while gamestop’s stock has increased 30 and bed bath’s has risen 143