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EA Guidance Minimizes Value and Turnaround (EA, ATVI, BBY, GME)

Posted: May 7, 2012 at 4:26 pm

Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) has released its earnings, and we forecast that this will help set the reception tone for Activision Blizzard Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) when it reports later ...
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Can Microsoft Save Cursed Barnes & Noble? No

Posted: May 1, 2012 at 6:38 am

Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) decision to invest in the e-commerce arm of Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) will do nearly nothing for the bricks-and-mortar book company. The challenge the two companies ...
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Full Earnings Preview for Amazon.com… Watch Those Margins (AMZN, BBY, RSH, BKS)

Posted: April 26, 2012 at 12:58 pm

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is set to report earnings after the close of trading today and investors who like retail and internet stocks will be paying close attention.  The company ...
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Best Buy Appoints Weak CEO Search Committee as Chairman Lurks

Posted: April 21, 2012 at 9:41 am

Best Buy's (NYSE: BBY) board selected an astonishingly weak committee to begin the search for a new CEO after former chief executive Brian Dunn made a disgraceful exit. The committee's opinion will ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (4/16/2012) Spain’s Debt Trouble, Best Buy Stores Close, Gas Stays High

Posted: April 16, 2012 at 6:34 am

The prices that Spain has to pay for debt continue to race higher. The level, now more than 6% for 10-year notes, cannot be sustained if the nation is to ...
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Media Digest (4/16/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT

Posted: April 16, 2012 at 6:34 am

Concerns about Spain and Italy renew capital markets’ rejection of area debt. (Reuters) Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) will have to bring in an outsider to change the company’s old philosophy. ...
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Best Buy Finally Closes 50 Stores

Posted: April 16, 2012 at 6:33 am

A number of cities' residents breathed a sigh of relief as they found out that they would not face a shuttering of their local Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) stores. The ...
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Media Digest (4/13/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 13, 2012 at 6:30 am

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) splits its stock in a way that will help its founders keep control, and the company also announces strong earnings. (Reuters) China’s GDP reaches a three-year low. ...
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The Growth of the Short-Selling Hedge Fund ETF (HDGE, GT, OPEN, ENR, COL, GMCR, C, ERIC, ATI, BBY, JCI)

Posted: April 12, 2012 at 11:06 am

Apparently having a short selling strategy under a hedge fund exchange-traded fund model has been working.  This week we received notice that the assets under management for AdvisorShares ActiveBear ETF (NYSE: HDGE) hit a ...
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Media Digest (4/12/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 12, 2012 at 6:31 am

Sony (NYSE: SNE) says it will eliminate 10,000 jobs and retool the company for growth. (Reuters) Exports from Japan improve. (Reuters) The Fed’s Beige Book reports concern about energy costs. (Reuters) ...
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Media Digest (4/11/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 11, 2012 at 6:37 am

Spain’s industrial production falls 5.1% on an annual basis in February. (MarketWatch) U.S. brokerage firms pay increasingly higher bonuses to get top producers. (Reuters) Alcoa (NYSE: AA) has a surprising ...
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Best Buy CEO Fired, As 24/7 Wall St. Suggested

Posted: April 10, 2012 at 9:47 am

24/7 Wall St. has said for over a year that Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) could not be turned around under incompetent CEO Brian Dunn. Clueless Best Buy founder Richard M. ...
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Another Powerful Case to Fire Best Buy CEO

Posted: April 5, 2012 at 6:54 am

Investors have plenty of reasons to want disoriented Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) CEO Brian J. Dunn to be dismissed. Dunn has lost his way as he tries to find a path to compete ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (GPS, BBY, LULU, MU, RIMM, MY, FINL, FES, DDMG, PBY, ENPH, ZAZA, LIZ)

Posted: March 30, 2012 at 4:06 pm

Markets opened higher this morning and after a decline in mid-morning moved higher and wobbled around modest gain to the beginning of the last hour of trading today. This morning’s ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (BBY, BWLD, CR, EMC, EXLP, GPS, IBN, INVN, LULU, MU, PAAS, BTU, RTN, RIMM, VVUS)

Posted: March 30, 2012 at 8:07 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday. Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) Maintained Hold at Argus. Buffalo ...
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