Take-Two

Even as investors reel from the stock-market roller coaster this week, Wall Street is moving on, with plenty of news on the way. Next week will bring headlines about retail and gaming earnings, as well as quarterly reports from News Corp., SodaStream and some newly public Chinese firms.

MoveOn.org plans to escalate its ongoing protest against Target, America's second-largest retailer. Still unclear: Is the protest about Target's decision to make any political donations, or the specific politics of the donation recipients?

Ryan Jacob was arguably the most popular mutual fund manager a decade ago when, while still in his 20s, he ran one of the few funds focused on internet stocks. Kinetics Asset Management's Internet Fund was the best performing U.S. equity fund in 1998, enjoying a 198 percent return. It rose over 500...