{"id":22963,"date":"2026-05-05T07:37:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/gamestop-shares-fall-10-after-ceo-skirts-questions-over-ebay-acquisition-details\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T07:37:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:37:32","slug":"gamestop-shares-fall-10-after-ceo-skirts-questions-over-ebay-acquisition-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/gamestop-shares-fall-10-after-ceo-skirts-questions-over-ebay-acquisition-details\/","title":{"rendered":"GameStop shares fall 10% after CEO skirts questions over eBay acquisition details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Cohen said he didn\u2019t understand questions about how the video games retailer could afford its $55.5bn bid<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/gamestop\">GameStop<\/a>\u2019s shares fell more than 10% on Monday as questions emerged about how the company would finance its surprise $55.5bn bid for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ebay\">eBay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Bmj2PaxX24E\">interview with CNBC<\/a>, Ryan Cohen, GameStop\u2019s CEO, skirted repeated inquiries about how the video games retailer could afford the deal, saying he didn\u2019t understand the questions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/04\/gamestop-ceo-ebay-acquisition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/42890248ceb5f5e8ae3c908c39ccd0687e0003cd\/217_0_5033_4024\/master\/5033.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a376f0099f21805ab5dfbc05b658838d\" title=\"GameStop shares fall 10% after CEO skirts questions over eBay acquisition details\" \/>Ryan Cohen said he didn\u2019t understand questions about how the video games retailer could afford its $55.5bn bid<br \/>\nSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<br \/>\nGameStop\u2019s shares fell more than 10% on Monday as questions emerged about how the company would finance its surprise $55.5bn bid for eBay.<br \/>\nIn an interview with CNBC, Ryan Cohen, GameStop\u2019s CEO, skirted repeated inquiries about how the video games retailer could afford the deal, saying he didn\u2019t understand the questions. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Cohen said he didn\u2019t understand questions about how the video games retailer could afford its $55.5bn bid Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email GameStop\u2019s shares fell more than 10% on Monday as questions emerged about how the company would finance its surprise $55.5bn bid for eBay. In an interview with CNBC, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/gamestop-shares-fall-10-after-ceo-skirts-questions-over-ebay-acquisition-details\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GameStop shares fall 10% after CEO skirts questions over eBay acquisition details<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22963"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}