7:35am ET
Investing
Private Equity Value for Best Buy (BBY, GME, WMT, AMZN)
After losing about a third of its value in the last year, Best Buy Co. (NYSE: BBY) may start to be thrown around as a private equity takeover name. A report from…
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6:05am ET
Media
Media Digest (11/18/2011) Reuters,WSJ, NYT, FT
Greek citizens stage large protests. (Reuters) Citigroup (NYSE: C), Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) could be affected when S&P updates its credit ratings on the world’s 30 largest…
4:11pm ET
Investing
24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (CHK, ENB, LULU, NTAP, QCOM, CSUN, DCI, GME, HP, SJM, SHLD, DLTR, ZOLL, ANGI, RMBS, VIAS, DQ)
Traders started off this morning on a bit of a selling spree, but for most of the morning the indexes were roughly flat. In the afternoon, however, selling picked up and all…
6:08am ET
Media
Media Digest (10/31/2011) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg
Japan acts to lower the yen before the upcoming G20 meeting. (Reuters) Beacon Power (NASDAQ: BCON), backed by U.S. funds, goes bankrupt. (Reuters) Young and well-educated Greeks begin to leave the country.…
8:26am ET
Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ATVI, AMR, AMD, AWK, CAH, DISCA, GME, HRBN, IVZ, JBLU, PHG, LM, MA, OXY, RCL, V, DIS, WWW, WYNN)
Jon OggThese are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) Started as Outperform at Baird.…
4:58pm ET
Media
Sony Playstation Soon to be Free? (SNE, MSFT, ATVI, TTWO, GME, AAPL, NOK, MMI, GOOG, NTDOY, SSNLF)
Game consoles and handheld game players took another shot to the chin today as Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) dropped the price of its Playstation 3 console by $50 on both the $299…
2:26pm ET
Investing
Top Earnings Previews For The Week Ahead (DDS, LDK, LOW, ADI, DELL, HD, TJX, WMT, DE, DRYS, JDSU, NTAP, SPLS, TGT, BRCD, GME, GPS, HPQ, CRM, SHLD)
The coming week has many key earnings reports, some tech and some retail. We have tracked the major reports by day, shown Thomson Reuters estimates, as well as given price action, and…
9:54am ET
Investing
Ten Companies That Can Greatly Increase Buybacks to Stop Share Slide (CSCO, WMT, KSS, HD, LOW, GME, DELL, COP, GD, GE, PKW)
Although stock buybacks have never been among our most preferred methods of returning capital to investors, stock repurchase plans can indicate to investors that a company’s management believes the ship is not…
8:40am ET
Investing
The Week’s Largest Stock Market Losers: GameStop Corp, Monster Worldwide Inc, And Capital One Financial Corp
The S&P 500 stocks which lost the most were mostly from the tech sector. Microchip Technology Inc (NASDAQ: MCHP) was down almost 16%. The company cut it earnings guidance which was done…
12:01pm ET
Investing
Best Ideas List For The Second Half (ANF, AWK, BKS, CMG, GME, HSY, IPSU, MED, RVBD, SEIC, PRTS)
Many research firms and brokerage firms maintain a list of best ideas for the year, and these often get updated quarterly or as companies reach a target or as they fall out…
4:49pm ET
Media
Why the Zynga IPO Matters, If It Files (ATVI, ERTS, GME, LNKD)
ZyngaCNBC got the ball rolling today on yet another bubbly internet social media IPO coming down the pipe via Zynga with an IPO filing as soon as Wednesday. Now the WSJ is…
11:18am ET
Media
Before E3, Activision Blizzard Still Stuck in the Mud (ATVI, ERTS, SNE, GME)
Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) is probably looking for anything it can find to drive its share price higher. Whether it is social gaming or more MMORPG platform games, The $13+ billion…
2:19pm ET
Media
Zynga IPO Ambitions Could Matter For Many Private & Public Companies (LNKD, ATVI, ERTS, GME, COOL)
ZyngaLinkedIn Corporation (NYSE: LNKD) came public and shares opened at a high enough premium that Jim Cramer called it a sham. There was one obvious issue that came up from this, and…
2:54pm ET
Retail
Top Retail Earnings For This Week (URBN, HD, SKS, TJX, WMT, BJ, DDS, SPLS, TGT, DLTR, GME, SHLD)
We have already seen earnings come in as a disappointment from Lowe’s Companies today. We still have quite a few retailers on deck to report earnings this week. We compiled a more…
2:01pm ET
Retail
Top Earnings Previews For The Week Ahead (JCP, LOW, URBN, DELL, HD, SKS, TJX, TSL, WMT, ALKS, BJ, DE, DDS, HPQ, PAAS, SPLS, TGT, ADSK, DLTR, GME, MPEL, CRM, SHLD, YGE)
It may seem like corporate earnings season is just about over, but next week we have a flurry of reports with some tech and a monster amount of retail companies. We have…