Video game investing has been the pits lately and a disappointment of the home-bound trade for the recession and recovery. The fun and cool games have so far not translated to major…
This weekend’s edition of The Unusual Suspects is different. While some earnings focus is made, there are several key events coming up that investors and traders alike will want to watch. Don’t…
THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) is still trying to get its ship turned around in the right direction and the company’s stock was under fire this morning, understandably if you are just a…
The cast of characters in this week’s Unusual Suspects is not any ordinary group of companies. There are many key stocks to watch for investors that have carryover issues from last week…
Many stocks are on the move this Friday morning. Active traders and day traders are likely to be watching the moves seen in Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC), Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.…
Some of the top earnings next week are Campbell Soup Co. (NYSE: CPB), Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), Trina Solar Ltd. (NYSE: TSL), TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. (NYSE: AEO),…
Lee Iacocca, Chrysler’s CEO in 1979, worked for $1 a year while his company paid back taxpayers $1.2 billion in loan guarantees. Edward Liddy, former CEO of Allstate (ALL), was paid $1…
Video game publisher Take-Two Interactive (TTWO) announced better than expected earnings today but also said it would need to cut its staff. Net revenue for the first fiscal quarter was $163.2 million,…
Douglas A. McIntyre MCV, the games business site, reports that Take-Two Interactive (NASDAQ:TTWO) will lay-off 400 people, or 20% of its work force. The company’s VP of Corporate Affairs, Alan Lewis, denied the rumor but said…
Douglas A. McIntyre Updated throughout the day Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) will get a $100 million bonus (Times of London) Morgan Stanley (NYSE::MS) will hire hundreds of traders over the next few years…
These are this morning’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Capital One Financial (NYSE: COF) Raised to Buy at SunTrust. Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) Raised to…
Each year some large retailers face the fall-out of a weak holiday season. The problem was particularly acute in 2009 because the improvement from 2008 was modest if there was any improvement…
Shares in companies including GameStop (NYSE:GME), Sony (NYSE:SNE), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), and Take-Two (NASDAQ:TTWO) will be affected by a disclosure from Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS) that it will badly miss its earnings forecasts. EA…
Reuters:  US business investment is rising. Reuters:  Another outage shut down RIM’s (NYSE:RIMM) BlackBerry network. Reuters:  Geithner said tight lending could hurt US economy. Reuters:  Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) lost an appeal over IP…
These are this Friday’s top day trader alerts in the pre-market trading. We have more details on the news but more importantly for the traders on the data and analysis from trading…
