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By J. Mintzmyer:THQ (THQI) announced Thursday that it was offering a pack of games and soundtracks via Humble Bundle for any price gamers wish to offer (minimum $1). The pack consists of 3 Company of Heroes games, Darksiders, and Metro: 2033 for pc as well as 3 soundtracks.

ByVinayak Maheswaran:I have been analyzing big oil stocks that offer a good return on investment for a value investor. My analysis here is based on the profitability ratios in the financial statements of BP PLC (BP) over the last 5 years.

Ed. note: Cross-posted from ITA's Tradeology blog by Michael Masserman and Ashley Zuelke of the the Office of  Export Policy, Promotion & StrategyHere’s a fact:  the 100 largest metro areas in our country make up just 12 percent of land area—but they make up 65 percent of our population and 75 percent of our nation’s GDP. So when it comes to export growth, it should come as no surprise that metro areas are leading the way.What may surprise you, is that thirteen smaller metropolitan areas across the U.S.—from Asheville, N.C., to Green Bay, Wisc., to Yakima, Wash.— for the first time joined the club of metropolitan markets that exported more than $1 billion in merchandise to the world. These metro areas exported U.S. goods such as machinery, transportation equipment, and computer and electronic products which are in great demand all over the world.The achievement of these thirteen metropolitan areas and recently released national data for 2011 metropolitan exports confirms the historic progress we are making toward reaching the President’s National Export Initiative (NEI) goal of doubling U.S. exports by the end of 2014.

Hedge funds that control large chunks of the studio's debt are ignoring a 2-month-old acquisition offer from Time Warner and a restructuring plan to raise $1 billion in new capital.

Ross cites a tight production schedule for 'Catching Fire' — Lionsgate wants to start filming it in August — for his decision.In just a few months, actress Jennifer Lawrence will return to the arena to fight for her life again as Katniss Everdeen in "Catching Fire," the sequel to "The Hunger Games." But her director and off-screen mentor, Gary Ross, will not be joining the fight.

We last left off with Christopher Robin in 1928, when A.A. Milne ended his second and final book about the boy and his friend Winnie the Pooh in an enchanted forest. What ever happened to the friends after Christopher went off to school? Did they diss Eeyore and Piglet and Tigger after making friends with the Heathers? Did Winnie and Christopher ever fight over a girl? Did the bees mysteriously die off in the Hundred Acre Wood like they did everywhere else?

By ZetaKap:To anyone who has watched the numbers climb higher as you fill up the gas tank, it is not surprising that some oil and gas companies are pulling in exceptional profits. While these prices are a financial drain for consumers, from an investment perspective, finding oil and gas companies that have honed in on profitability makes sense. With this in mind, we ran a scan to find oil and gas stocks that not only have strong earnings, but have steadily increased their profitability.

THQ, once one of the largest publishers of games for kids, plans to focus on hard-core titles such as Saints Row: The Third.THQ Inc., once one of the largest publishers of video games for children, said it will no longer produce licensed kids titles for traditional game consoles.