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Fool Video: A Halo Effect for Microsoft and Video Game Stocks?

By Mac Greer – Updated Apr 5, 2017 at 5:32PM

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Will Halo produce heavenly returns for investors?

Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Halo 3 has officially arrived. What will it mean for Microsoft investors? What will it mean for video-game makers such as Activision (NASDAQ:ATVI), Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS), and Take-Two (NASDAQ:TTWO)? Will there be a halo effect for retailers such as GameStop (NYSE:GME), Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), and Target (NYSE:TGT)? In this installment of "Fool Video," Managing Editor LouAnn DiCosmo talks Halo with Halo-playing Motley Fool analyst Seth Jayson.

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Stocks Mentioned

Walmart

WMT

$131.31 (0.96%) $1.25

Electronic Arts Inc.

$114.82 (-0.71%) $0.82

Target Corporation

TGT

$148.71 (-2.56%) $-3.90

Microsoft Corporation

MSFT

$237.45 (-0.20%) $0.47

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.

TTWO

$109.57 (-0.72%) $0.79

GameStop Corp.

GME

$24.48 (-2.24%) $0.56

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