Good point, Scarychips. Good thing you were credited for that link that she posted in the article in an edit...after her unconvincing attempt to backtrack on the previous point. "Well this isn't surprising" doesn't say to me "I don't mean any causation, just a funny coincidence." It says "one would expect this result…

too bad no actual research was done and she just blindly posted thinking it must be so!.....

Of course it does not mean causation. I didn't mean to suggest that I know for certain that it is because of the conference, but with the timing being accurate down to the minute, I'd say it's extremely likely.

I don't really understand how a microsoft confrence could hike sony's stock up by fucking 2$

Oh, I'm sorry, did you expect kotaku to actually do research on how businesses and the stock market interact before publishing their completely bias confirming speculative bs?

Are you certain of that? Could it not be the other way around? Or that both contributed substantially.

Their stock rose because of this here: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-2…

Not at all related to Microsoft's reveal. Though this is a pretty funny coincidence.