Barron's Picks And Pans: Nordstrom, Pinterest, Take-Two Interactive And More

• This weekend's Barron's cover story offers reasons why investors should not panic about the trade war.
• Another featured article suggests five cheap stocks to ride out the trade war.
• Also, the prospects for a retailer, a video game maker and a social media play.

This weekend's Barron's cover story, "The Trade War Will Make Stocks Scary. 5 Reasons Not to Panic." by Reshma Kapadia, shows how much Apple Inc. AAPL, Cisco Systems, Inc. CSCO and other stocks are at risk from trade-related issues.

In "5 Cheap Stocks to Ride Out the Trade War," Jack Hough says investors shopping for stocks are better off now simply favoring cheap ones with decent long-term growth prospects, including Applied Materials, Inc. AMAT and Charles Schwab Corporation SCHW.

Andrew Bary's "Nordstrom Stock Is Now a Can't-Miss Bargain" makes a case that though Nordstrom, Inc. JWN shares have been cut in half from their 2015 peak due to investor worry about tariffs and a disappointing holiday season, those fears are baked in.

Videogame stocks have tumbled and reasons to be worried about the industry are plentiful, according to Take-Two Is Winning the Game" by Tae Kim. See why Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc TTWO is the exception.

In Al Root's "Pinterest Committed a Cardinal Sin for a Newly Public Company," discover why when Pinterest Inc PINS released its first-quarterly earnings report as a public company last week, the numbers left investors wanting.
Also in this week's Barron's:

• How trade war fears are affecting art auctions
• The Trump-country commodity hit hardest by the trade war
• What it takes these days to trigger a sell-off
• Whether Europe is now a bigger trade villain than China
• Where the next meltdown could come from