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Short Sellers Move into Avon and Bebe Stores
Sunday, April 28, 2013 - 9:46am | 983Read More...The short interest moves in troubled retail companies were mixed again during in early April. The number of shares sold short in Avon Products (NYSE: AVP), Bebe Stores (NASDAQ: BEBE), Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), GameStop (NYSE: GME), RadioShack (NYSE: RSH) and SuperValu (NYSE: SVU) increased between...
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Short Sellers Retreat from Best Buy and Rite Aid
Friday, April 12, 2013 - 12:29pm | 908Read More...The short interest moves in troubled retail companies were mixed during the latter two weeks of March. The number of shares sold short in Bebe Stores (NASDAQ: BEBE), GameStop (NYSE: GME), Office Depot (NYSE: ODP) and Pacific Sunwear (NASDAQ: PSUN) increased somewhat between the March 15 and March...
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Short Sellers Aim for Best Buy and Office Depot
Saturday, March 30, 2013 - 11:35am | 932Read More...The short interest in troubled retail companies was mixed but overall quiet during the first two weeks of March. The number of shares sold short in Bebe Stores (NASDAQ: BEBE), Bon-Ton Stores (NASDAQ: BONT), OfficeMax (NYSE: OMX) and RadioShack (NYSE: RSH) increased somewhat between the February...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of March 25
Sunday, March 24, 2013 - 3:51pm | 852Read More...Here is a quick look at what analysts expect to see from SAIC (NYSE: SAI), Mosaic (NYSE: MOS), GameStop (NYSE: GME) and some of the other most prominent quarterly reports scheduled for this week. Accenture Second-quarter fiscal 2013 earnings from Dublin-based Accenture (NYSE: ACN) are expected to...
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The Top 10 Shorted Stocks for February
Friday, March 15, 2013 - 9:41am | 641Read More...The results are in. Here are the top 10 shorted stocks for the month of February. Short interest is represented as a percentage of float. If you thought a market that doesn’t want to fall would cause the shorts to pile in as they wait for the pullback, there is no evidence of that just yet....
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Office Supply Merger Brings Out the Short Sellers (ODP, OMX, AVP)
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 1:29pm | 858Read More...By and large, the short interest in troubled retail companies increased during the final two weeks of February. The number of shares sold short in Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), Bebe Stores (NASDAQ: BEBE), GameStop (NYSE: GME), J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP), RadioShack (NYSE: RSH), Rite Aid (NYSE: RAD...
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Short Interest in Struggling Retail Stocks Declines (AVP, BEBE, SVU)
Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 5:43pm | 858Read More...By and large, the short interest in troubled retail companies declined during the first two weeks of February. However, the number of shares sold short in Avon Products (NYSE: AVP), Bebe Stores (NASDAQ: BEBE), GameStop (NYSE: GME) and Pacific Sunwear (NASDAQ: PSUN) increased between the January 31...
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Is It Time to Trade in Call of Duty for Scrabble?
Monday, February 4, 2013 - 11:28am | 666Read More...According to a study conducted by Brad Bushman, Professor of Psychology at Ohio State University, there may be evidence that playing violent video games leads to aggressive behavior. The study also demonstrated that those who played nonviolent games showed no significant changes in aggression...
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GameStop Sales Plummet, Can the Video Game Retailer Survive?
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 - 10:44am | 546Read More...Despite a plethora of positive hype leading up to the holiday shopping season, GameStop (NYSE: GME) has announced that its comparable store sales decreased 4.4 percent worldwide. In America, GameStop endured a comparable store sales decrease of 3.5 percent. The losses were even greater overseas,...
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GameStop to be Flooded with Used Wii U Games
Tuesday, November 20, 2012 - 12:19pm | 642Read More...On November 24, hundreds of used Wii U games could be dumped onto unsuspecting GameStop (NYSE: GME) locations all over the country. The dumping may be caused by a deal between Old Navy and Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY). The Gap-owned (NYSE: GPS) specialty retailer is giving away free copies of New Super...
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GameStop Denies Rumor It Will End Midnight Launches
Monday, November 19, 2012 - 3:20pm | 771Read More...Midnight launches might be a thing of the past for GameStop (NYSE: GME). A person familiar with the video game retailer told Benzinga that it might cut back or end its midnight game and console launches in 2013. A company spokesperson adamantly denied the claim. GameStop recently promoted the...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of November 12
Sunday, November 11, 2012 - 7:08pm | 869Read More...While the consensus forecasts call for year-over-year earnings growth from the likes of Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), J.M. Smucker (NYSE: SJM) and Viacom (NASDAQ: VIAB) -- as well as lower per-share earnings from Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) -- when they share their most recent quarterly results this week,...
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Barron's Recap: The 25 Best Dividend Funds
Sunday, November 4, 2012 - 3:09pm | 820Read More...This weekend in Barron's online: the top dividend funds, investing in Brazil, the prospects for Bank of New York Mellon, Radian Group and Callaway Golf, as well as the momentum favors Romney. Cover Story "Top Dividend Funds" by Steve Garmhausen. Over the past few years, the search for income and...
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Sony Announces New PlayStation Hardware
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - 2:21pm | 376Read More...Sony (NYSE: SNE) has announced plans to release a slimmer and more expensive version of its six-year-old PlayStation 3 gaming console. According to Ars Technica and a number of other publications, Sony unveiled the new hardware -- being referred to as a "Super Slim" edition -- during an event in...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of August 13
Monday, August 13, 2012 - 6:33am | 938Read More...Retail earnings season got off to a start last week when drug store chain CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) and department store operators Kohl's (NYSE: KSS), Macy's (NYSE: M) and Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN) bested second-quarter earnings estimates, while JCPenney (NYSE: JCP) reported a net loss. Many more...















