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Some not-insignificant part of me had, I guess, assumed that first-THQ-then-Crytek-now-Deep Silver’s Homefront: The Revolution was a strictly-singleplayer affair. I don’t knowwhy I assumed this, exactly. Maybe one part “They’d only showed us singleplayer” and another part “Most B-tier shooters die on the vine.” Suffice it to say, I was pretty surprised when Deep Silver reached out to show me more of this new Homefront last week and I was told we’d be seeing multiplayer. Four-person cooperative multiplayer, to be exact. You say you want a revolution Conceptually, it makes sense. Homefront: The Revolution is all about a homegrown guerrilla…

Apple has a chance to broaden the iPhone’s reach in emerging markets and improve the device’s functionality, but the company’s best-selling product faces near-term headwinds, UBS analyst Steven Milunovich said Tuesday. “I think it’s going to be a little bit rough here for next one to two quarters. We’re looking for pretty flat to down in the March quarter shipments,” he told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” Google search traffic for the iPhone is declining in the United States, and growth in searches has fallen sharply in China — from 80 percent growth to 15 percent, Milunovich said. He attributed the drop…

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+ This winter’s warm weather is a threat to commodity prices — but some more than others, Goldman Sachs said in a report on Tuesday. The weather in both Europe and the U.S. has been much warmer than average in November and December and Asia has been hot and dry over the last few months, analysts at the investment bank said. This in part because of El Nino, the wild weather phenomenon that is forecast to be particularly strong this winter and is caused by the warming of certain parts of the Pacific Ocean. Goldman Sachs said that El Nino…

ew share listings in the United States has their worst year since 2009, Thomson Reuters data showed on Tuesday, as a number of deals were pulled or priced below their initial range. Global listings were down 26 percent compared with 2014, at $185.9 billion. The worst hit market was the United States, which has booked $28.7 billion in initial public offerings activity so far this year, down 48 percent on 2014. Asia also suffered, with listings down 36 percent at $65 billion, but Europe was up 2 percent at $69.1 billion. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Traders work at the post…

While the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones industrial average are on pace to finish relatively flat for the year, investors should take away this silver lining, Paul Hickey, co-founder of Bespoke Investment Group, said Monday. “What is good to be said about this year, is the market has done nothing. You’ve allowed for some consolidation,” Hickey told CNBC’s “Power Lunch.” He also said flatness in the market one year is a good sign moving forward. “These dull years have typically been followed by some nice gains later on.” S&P 500 this year U.S. equities have had to contend with…

Shares of NetApp sank after the data storage equipment maker said it would buy SolidFire, a flash-storage systems maker, for $870 million in cash. The deal is expected to close in the fiscal fourth quarter, the company said on Monday. Shares of NetApp were down 3 percent in premarket trading following the announcement. (Get the latest quote here.) —CNBC contributed to this report. RELATED SECURITIES Symbol Price Change %Change NTAP 22.64 0.06 0.27% by Taboola MORE FROM CNBC Airline founder opens store selling food at 36¢ Cramer Remix: Don’t be stupid—buy this stock Mark Grant: US recession looms—and here’s why…

rader disclosure: On December 21, 2015, the following stocks and commodities mentioned or intended to be mentioned on CNBC’s “Fast Money” were owned by the “Fast Money” traders: Tim Seymour is long AAPL, BAC, BX, CLF, DIS, F, FCX, GE, GM, GOOGL, INTC, JCP, JPM, KO, LGF, RL, T, TWTR, VRX. Tim’s firm is long BABA, BIDU, MCD, NKE, SBUX, YHOO. Dan Nathan is long PFE buy-write, Long TWTR March Risk Reversal, long IWM Dec Put Spread, Long UUP call spread, Long XLU Feb Call, Long PYPL Jan Risk Reversal, Long M Jan16 52.50 / 62.50 call spread, Long INTC…

After the vicious sell-off last week, Jim Cramer wanted to know how much more pain the S&P 500 has to endure before it finally bottoms. And what he discovered could be significant. To answer this important question, he enlisted the help of Carolyn Boroden, a technician who runs FibonacciQueen.com and a colleague of Cramer’s at RealMoney.com. The reason Cramer turned to Boroden is she previously nailed calling the peak of the S&P. When Cramer last checked in with her in June, she said it was time to get cautious about the S&P. In June, she thought the rally for the…

Fears of slow global economic growth and a glut in the oil market have ignited debates about whether there’s a recession ahead, but some think that the market, which started the year with a drop, will bounce back later this year. “The China fears will dissipate as they have for the last several years every time we have another China spike,” Paul Christopher, head global market strategist at the Wells Fargo Investment Institute, told CNBC on Tuesday. Despite headwinds ahead, the strategist targets the S&P 500 at about 2,330 for the end of the year, forecasting a recovery in oil…