Campbell Soup (CPB) reported its fiscal first quarter results Tuesday morning, and the stock was trading lower after the company's quarterly earnings came in under expectations.

Headed into this earnings report, analysts had been expecting to see the company report $0.83 per share, but the Campbell's came up a little short, reporting actual earnings of $0.82.

The holiday sales push is on. The November-December period can account for more than 50% of retailers' sales. CNNMoney reports that Walmart (WMT) is trying to stay ahead of the pack by offering free online shipping on 60,000 items through December 20.

Steve Nave, general manager of Walmart.com said: "Customers are doing all they can to save money this holiday, so we're excited to offer free shipping to home, with no minimum purchase requirement as an early Christmas present to them."

I was reading a rather interesting article in The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) about the potential for a holiday toy war between Target (TGT) and Walmart (WMT). The price war centers on toys because "parents will buy stuff for their kids even when the economy is awful."

The article adds that shoppers have attempted to buy the "biggest toy bargains" while "ignor[ing] stores' other offerings." However, the article is quick to point out improving economic conditions suggest that retailers have a reason to believe the shoppers will look around the store a bit more and be quicker to part with some cash. Is this a safe assumption? Yes, I think that it is. However, I have a couple of reservations.

Trading volume is brisk and share price is up, just hours ahead of today's Q3 earnings release expected from eBay (EBAY). The earnings call is scheduled for just after today's close, with company guidance suggesting a result of 37 cents per share on revenue of $2.18 billion. Those numbers are slightly off previous year Q3 results of 38 cents per share on revenue of $2.24 billion.

My question is, will eBay still be a buy after the coming earnings release? My answer is, absolutely.

"Focus Media Holdings (FMCN), our latest featured stock, is a leader in the advertising sector in in China; this stock is a great way to play the broad consumer market in China as that country's middle class continues to grow," says Paul Goodwin.

The editor of Cabot China & Emerging Markets Report explains, "In 2002, the company's founder, Jason Jiang, was standing in a crowd of bored office workers in Shanghai, waiting for one of the office block's infamously slow elevators to arrive.

"Then it hit him. If he could just put a little fl‚at-panel TV on the wall by the elevators, he could sell space on the screen to advertisers, translating all those increasingly affluent eyes into money.

Fashion firm Gap (GPS) has had its fair share of struggles recently -- what with the economic crisis and all, not many people want to dish out a lot of money for khakis and tight sweaters. In recent months, Gap has seen sales cool and reported that same-store sales dropped 4% during the second quarter.

So, what do you do with the holiday shopping season approaching and sales slumping? Do you drop prices across the board to try and attract more shoppers? Do you advertise these new prices so cash-strapped college kids know they can now get their khakis and button-ups cheaper? No. The brand geniuses over at the Gap decide this is time to replace the companies iconic blue box logo with something a bit more modern.

Starting next month you will be able to buy gold at an ATM machine. Can that be true? Yes, CNNMoney's story on Gold to go's owner Thomas Geissler says he plans to launch two such ATMs in Las Vegas and Florida. Plans are to expand the Gold to go ATMs in New York, Dallas, Los Angeles and Minnesota.

The machines will offer gold coins and bars weighing up to 8 ounces. Prices are updated every ten minutes based on spot gold prices.

Apple, Inc. (AAPL) only entered the mobile advertising market a few months ago, but the company has already been successful at taking away crucial mobile advertising revenue from giants such as Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) and Google, Inc. (GOOG).

Apple was definitely a late comer to the mobile advertising party, but it has nonetheless made a quick impact. According to a report from Bloomberg Businessweek today, Apple could end the year with a nice 21% share of the market.

Anheuser Busch's (BUD) Budweiser brand's sales have fallen 9% last year. Many beer drinkers of the 30-year-old-and-under crowd have switched to more exotic beers, leaving Budweiser to catch up.Budweiser's rank fell to from 16th in 2003 to 220th in 2010, as reported in USAToday. This is as close to a marketshare disaster as you can get.

Budweiser is trying to sharpen its image to focus on the younger crowd. It plans to kick off a new campaign on September 29. Budweiser has dubbed that day, "Budweiser National Happy Hour." On that day Budweiser will offer free beer to those over age 21. The samples will range from 6 to 12 ounces depending on state and local laws.

Ruthless corporate raider Gordon Gekko returns to the silver screen next week in Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Gekko was introduced in 1987's Wall Street, and his greed-is-good philosophy made the character a cultural icon and cult hero, as well as won Michael Douglas an Academy Award. The questions is, will Gekko hold up in the new millennium? We'll soon find out.

In the meantime, here's a glance at some of the best of Wall Street movies thus far. Are your favorites on the list?

• Pi (1998). A thriller about a paranoid mathematical genius on the run because he might just have discovered a way to accurately predict the behavior of the stock market. A Sundance Festival award winner. See trailer.

One of the hottest categories in tech is location-based services (LBS). Essentially, this means using your smartphone's GPS capability to show friends your current location. One of the early leaders in the space is Foursquare, which recently snagged a large amount of venture capital. But other players are diving in. For example, Shopkick recently rolled out a pilot of its LBS platform to allow shoppers at Best Buy (BBY) to get discounts. And of course, Facebook recently launched its Places capability.

In fact, now AT&T (T) is getting into the game. The telecom giant has teamed up with an LBS startup, SCVNGR, which has a rewards system for the iPhone and Android. It will be in 50 AT&T stores throughout the Midwest as a trial program.

I remember six years ago when the Beastie Boys released their newest album. It dealt with New York City and what it meant to the group -- hence the title, "To the 5 Boroughs." It seems that athletic shoe and apparel giant Nike (NKE) also will attempt to capitalize on the pride generated in each of the city's five boroughs, as it will release a limited edition line of shoes celebrating each of the boroughs.

These shoes will only be sold in New York, with select stores in each borough receiving the corresponding shoe. These shoes were produced for the inaugural World Basketball Festival that will take place from August 12 through August 15. The selected stores in Brooklyn will receive shoes with a black, plum, and white color scheme; a logo for the borough; and laces that identify the shoes as the Brooklyn edition.