Trading under the ticker "NMAX," the shares surged more than 720% to close at $82.25 each by the time trading ended at 4 p.m. The right-leaning news company, which began in 1998 as a digital news ...

Conservative news company Newsmax (NMAX) only just went public on Monday, and already, its stock has been halted due to extreme volatility. The response to its shares hitting the public market was ...