Circuit City Plays Coy at Annual Meeting

Forbes has the skinny on Circuit City’s annual meeting. Everyone wants to know if the company will be sold or not. But little information came out. Circuit City Stores Inc. stayed mum on Tuesday about whether a buyout is in the future for the consumer electronics retailer, but an activist investor expects an announcement of a possible sale within the next month. Mark J. Wattles, whose investment firm holds a 6.5 percent stake in Circuit City, said three companies are in the late stages of con