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GameStop CEO's CNBC Interview Raises More Questions Than Answers On eBay Bid Summary: GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen Can't Explain Basic Deal Math To CNBC Host  eBay Confirms Receipt of Unsolicited Proposal from GameStop GameStop CEO Tells CNBC: We Haven't Heard Anything Yet From eBay Wall Street analysts "skeptical" about the GameStop Takeover of eBay GameStop CEO Reveals Unsolicited Offer to Buy eBay GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen Joins CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin For Interview CNBC's Andrew Sorkin interviewed GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen earlier this morning about GameStop's bid for eBay. Sorkin asked Cohen about "how does the math work for you? Given...

CIA Distances Itself From Trump's Iran War With Media Leak It seems that CIA and other US intelligence officials hope to distance themselves from Trump's Iran war, now with the US-initiated conflict having dragged on for nearly five months (with no end in sight), after White House officials had in the opening days touted a swift, limited military excursion.  They are leaking intelligence to the press which shows they have assessed that current American strikes on Iran are unlikely to change Iran's negotiating position. With tankers in Hormuz on fire and...

Micron Rises After Strong Revenue Guidance Offsets Slight Margin Miss The highly anticipated Micron earnings (since memory is the one place in the sector in the market where all those massive new bond sales are funding) are finally out and they painted a solid, if slightly mixed, picture compared to buyside bogeys. As we said in our preview, what would matter today is not what the company did in Q4, but how it guided to Fiscal Q1 (ending next calendar quarter), and sure enough Q3 was solid across the board: Adjusted EPS...