Six Flags sees drop in attendance in Q4 on higher ticket prices

ekkawit998/iStock via Getty Images Six Flags Entertainment Corporation (NYSE:SIX) reported a 12% drop in fourth-quarter revenue to $280 million. Attendance was down 30% during the quarter, which the theme party operator said was due to an increase in ticket prices, the removal of free tickets and deeply discounted pass products, and fewer days of operation. … Read more

Cramer sees ‘good opportunity’ Salesforce’s Benioff to announce succession plans soon

Jim Cramer suggested on Saturday that plans for a leadership change at Club holding Salesforce (CRM), run by co-founder Marc Benioff for more than two decades, may be revealed in the near future. “There will be many possibilities that Marc [soon] announce a successor or Marc will announce that he will [only] to be president,” … Read more

Why a strategist sees a real risk of World War 3.1, whose battlefield will be microchips

Welcome back from a three-day recess in honor of America’s founding father, which a congresswoman decided to celebrate by proposing a national divorce. Would a split between blue and red states be good for stocks? It’s probably bad for defense contractors, but it would open up whole new asset classes, so who knows. After all, … Read more