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Best Buy tries used video games: Look out GameStop?	Filed under: Products and services, Competitive strategy, Best Buy (BBY)The Wall Street Journal reports that Best Buy (NASDAQ: BBY) is test piloting the sale of used video games at its Canadian stores, with an eye toward expanding the program into the United States. While the company says it's too early to say whether the plan will take off, Best Buy's head of international relations said on a conference call that "We're very, very, very hopeful that this will be another avenue of increasing our...	June 18, 2008
Video Game Software Sales Up 41% In May, NPD Says	The latest data on video game software sales from market research firm NPD shows continued robust demand. In May, video game software sales rose 41% on a year-over-year basis. Pacific Crest’s Evan Wilson, in his review of the data, noted that console hardware sales saw little benefit from the launch of Take-Two’s (TTWO) Grand Theft Auto IV. He also noted that third-party titles continue to find it difficult to gain any traction on the Nintendo Wii. He notes that 10 of the top 15 tile...	June 13, 2008
Unusual Option Move: GameStop Strangle (GME)	GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) is typically a stock that isn’t highly active in stock options. An options strangle trade, holding different options strike prices at the same maturity date, was made in GameStop today. Below you can see the trades with the comparison to the open interest: OPTION CONTRACT Volume OpInt JAN09-$55 CALLS 4,581 4,895 JAN09-$45 CALLS 4,198 5,165 Based upon the open interest being only a bit above ea...	June 13, 2008
"Fast Money" for Wednesday	WEDNESDAY'S PICKSJeff Macke likes Disney (DIS) $33.83 and thinks it could go to $40 by this time next year.Guy Adami prefers Deere (DE) $81.66 Karen Finerman recommends buying puts on the SPDR S&P Metals and Mining (XME) $89.1 Tim Seymour suggests being a seller of Tenaris (TS) $63.23TUESDAY'S RESULTSJeff Macke recommends Pier One (PIR) $5.26 as a bounce back play. close $5.83 GAINTim Seymour prefers Tata Motors (TTM) $12.17 as a stock that’s been unfairly beaten up. Close $12.02 LOSSPete N...	June 10, 2008
"Fast Money" for Tuesday	TUESDAY'S PICKSJeff Macke recommends Pier One (PIR) $5.26 as a bounce back play.Tim Seymour prefers Tata Motors (TTM) $12.17 as a stock that’s been unfairly beaten up.Pete Najarian thinks GameStop (GME) $45.83 is a buy.MONDAY'S RESULTSNone2008 Records:Brian Schaeffer= 0-1Carter Worth= 1-1Jon Najarian= 4-3Jeff Macke= 44-37-1Tim Seymore= 17-14Guy Adami= 48-37Pete Najarian= 43-39Karen Finerman= 42-33-1Joe Terrenova= 1-32007 Results (Since 6/21):Guy Adami= 58-46 = 56%Jeff Macke= 60-40 = 60%Pete ...	June 09, 2008
Fast Money Recap	Word ON The Street WORD VIDEO HERE Bank Trade The traders talked about the prospects of a bottom in the financial sector. Jon Najarian said that put selling in Lehman Brothers (LEH) makes him believe that the stock could be near a bottom. However, he said he put activity on MBIA (MBI), Wachovia (WB) and Washington Mutual (WM) are suggesting to him these stocks are going lower. He said he is short both names. Multinational Trade The traders discussed some multinational stock plays. Macke said loo...	June 09, 2008
Video Games…Get Ready for ‘Girls Gone Wild’ with Nintendo (NTDOY)	Gaming has been ALL about boys…until NOW. The Wii has changed things and not in some ‘itsy bitsy’ couple year trend kind of thing, but in a big ball busting trend kind of way. I have seen the future and the future is…Rachel fighting Max for the Wii. With Nintendo (NTDOY), the boys and ‘man boys’ markets are a LOCK. If you buy the stock today you need another catalyst…I mean the cats out of the bag no? They don’t do their own retail like Appl...	June 01, 2008
Jim Cramer’s Mad Mail	Martin writes, “When the 3G iPhone comes out. Is that when it is announced on June 9 or when it actually hits the market? I realize this is one of those buy on the rumor and sell on the news plays, but how is that actually done? Do we sell the day of, day after or before?” Cramer told the viewer to scale out of Apple by selling 25% of his position the day before the announcement, 25% the morning of the announcement and then 25% that afternoon. He would hold the remaining 25% to see w...	May 27, 2008
GameStop throws in the towel on Microsoft's Zune	Filed under: Competitive strategy, Microsoft (MSFT), Apple Inc (AAPL)In case more evidence was needed that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)'s Zune is a bust, GameStop (NASDAQ: GME) has decided to stop selling the MP3 player, citing the fact the product "didn't have the appeal" that it had hoped it would. GameStop has pulled the inventory from its stores and will offer the Zunes on its website until it has cleared out the entire inventory.In response, Microsoft told the Wall Street Journal that the Zune ...	May 27, 2008
If You Could Hate One Stock…	I hate a few. You know them if you read this blog. 1. Best Buy (BBY) 2. Verizon (VZ) 3. Harley Davidson (HOG) 4. Capital One Financial (COF) 5. Gamestop (GME) I hate them for different reasons…Verizon because I am a customer, Best Buy for their pathetic bait and switch financing tactics and financial engineering, Harley…because they are loud, stupid and not made for jewish hips, yet riden by too many 40 plus year old jews, Gamestop because it’s the only store in the mal...	May 27, 2008

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