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Game Stocks Bloodied in Market Meltdown
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Posted by Donster on: 2008-10-10 16:58:41 441
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Activision falls 28%, THQ sheds 39%, EA slides 37%, and Take-Two loses 40% during four-week roller-coaster ride on Wall Street, capped by today's sixth-straight triple-digit Dow Jones drop.
By Tor Thorsen, GameSpot
Unless you've been in a darkened room playing Spore with the TV off for the past month, you're probably aware that the US is in the midst of a dire financial crisis. That fact was underlined today when the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 679 points to end the day at 8,579, or down 7.33 percent. That's the first time since 2003 that the index has closed below 9,000, and was the sixth triple-digit single-day loss in a row.
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