geesh, $3 billion on dozens of stocks? that is nothing CNBC caused that much of an increase in market cap on one stock alone when it pumped it in January 2014 - scam company MDBX AwesomePennyStocks’ messages about that firm and 38 others, sent over five years, helped fuel spikes in share prices that boosted the combined value of the stocks by as much as $3 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.