Take Two Interactive's Bioshock 2 Tops Software Sales for February 2010 -44 minutes agoby Perry H. Rod

Take Two (NASDAQ:TTWO)'s Bioshock 2 on the Xbox 360 barely beat out Wii's popular New Super Mario Brothers for the month of February, according to NPD.  Activision's November release, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was at number 3 and 6 of the top 10.  Electronic Arts hit the next three spots.  Sony's Heavy Rain comes in tenth.  On the...

How David Einhorn and Dan Loeb along with Goldman Sachs Brought Their... -03/04/10 at 12:49 PM PSTby Mark Mitchell

You don’t hear much about it, but the March 2007 bankruptcy of a company called New Century Financial was arguably one of the most important events leading up to the financial crisis that nearly caused a second Great Depression. It was the demise of New Century, then the nation’s second largest mortgage lender, that triggered the collapse of t...

Cataloging Sears Holdings Corporation Stock Manipulation -02/22/10 at 10:24 AM PSTby Judd Bagley

Most of the examinations of stock manipulation published here on deepcapture.com take place after the fact, the damage being done. However, we’ve became aware of instances of apparently illegal, manipulative trading in several companies’ stocks, happening right now, which we have the ability to monitor and report on in nearly real time. I&rsqu...

Sears Holdings Corporation Short Selling Stock Delivery Failure Analy... -02/17/10 at 12:05 PM PSTby Judd Bagley

I’ve got everything ready to go for my next article, save one thing: the most current stock delivery failures data, corresponding to the second half of January, which the SEC was supposed to have made available yesterday. I’m particularly eager to get that batch, because it has the capacity to confirm or rule-out my ability to predict the futu...

Fed Exit Strategy? Preparing For Inflation: SPDR Gold Trust et al. Pa... -02/16/10 at 1:44 PM PSTby Brian Benton

In late July of last year, I provided an analysis of the tools the Federal Reserve was proposing it might use to facilitate an exit from the substantial amount of bank reserve creation (and resultant balance sheet expansion) since September 2008 (Fed Exit Strategy?). Also discussed were some of the problems I felt the Fed would encounter when attempting t...

TheStreet.com's Barry Ritholtz and a Tale of Two Media -02/11/10 at 11:43 AM PSTby Judd Bagley

This is a transcript of the Deep Capture podcast episode published on February 10, 2010. You may: Download the episode in mp3 format. Subscribe to the podcast’s RSS feed. Download in iTunes. listen to the episode right here in this handy audio player:  Barry Ritholtz and a tale of two media. [12:35m]: Hide Player | Play in Popup   It...

Kilroy Realty Corp Misses Guidance Estimate -01/26/10 at 11:11 AM PSTby Peter York

During their mid trading day conference call, Kilroy Realy Corporation (NYSE:KRC) reported FFO guidance of $2.10-$2.30. An average of 11 analysts had expected FFO of $2.23.  Shares slipped slightly as a result of the miss.  After the markets had closed yesterday, Kilroy reported FFO earnings of .39 which was a penny less than analysts had expect...

John Paulson's "Greatest Trade Ever" - Something of a Scam -01/20/10 at 8:34 PM PSTby Mark Mitchell

By now, everybody knows that the market for collateralized debt obligations was riddled with fraud in the lead-up to the financial crisis. What is less known is the fact that hedge fund managers helped create and inflate the market for these toxic securities specifically so that they could bet against them and profit from the inevitable collapse. An examp...

The Coming Oil Conflict In Iran -01/19/10 at 10:12 AM PSTby Reggie Abaca

Newsmakers and even the oil markets (USO, X, USL) have learned to get used to tensions between the West and Iran.  Last week, an Iranian physics professor linked to the country’s nuclear program was assassinated.  Iran blamed Israel and the United States for the remote control bombing of the man’s car.  Iran, for once, was proba...

New Evidence Raises Questions About Kingsford Capital - Links To TheS... -01/07/10 at 3:20 PM PSTby Mark Mitchell

A blog published by the University of North Carolina School of Journalism reported recently that Steve Cohen of hedge fund SAC Capital managed to kill a story by Reuters reporter Matt Goldstein. It seems that Goldstein was going to shed some light on allegations that Cohen engaged in insider trading. Cohen didn’t like that, and got in touch with Gol...

GameStop Technical Analysis Shows a Possible Significant Trend Reversal -01/05/10 at 9:10 PM PSTby Martin Sambusini

Check out this mid-term view of Gamestop (NYSE:GME).  As you can see below, the stock has moved above its rising trendline which began in November 2008. This is bullish because it initially broke below the trendline but instead of continuing to decline, it very recently reversed course and moved up.    Here is a closer look at last 3 month...