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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...
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GS
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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...
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SHLD
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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.
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SHLD
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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...
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GLD
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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...
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OSTK TSCM
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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...
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KRC
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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...
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DB UDN GS BAC
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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...
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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...
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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...
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GME
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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...
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GME
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Goldman Sachs Reiterates Buy Rating on GameStop
Corp. -12/28/09 at
11:32 AM PSTby Perry H.
Rod
After removing Gamestop Corp (NYSE:GME) from
their conviction buy list in November, sell side Goldman Sachs (GS)
analyst Robert Higginbotham today is pushing investors to buy
GameStop shares, with a price target of $29. He cites two
specific catalysts including GameStop's holiday sales report coming
on January 7th and their full earnings report in M...
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