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Scheduled quarterly reports from General Mills (NYSE: GIS), Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU), Monsanto (NYSE: MON), Nike (NYSE: NKE) and Walgreen (NYSE: WAG) will be among the highlights this coming week on the earnings front. Consensus forecasts call for year-over-year revenue gains from all...

U.S. stocks finished the week on a positive note despite a sell-off in the afternoon. One possible reason for the sell-off is that investors are adjusting their portfolios for the end of the quarter on Monday. Major indices rallied off the opening bell with the Dow Jones Industrial Average...

U.S. stocks were slightly lower as positive labor market data clashed with fourth quarter GDP estimates that showed the economic expanded less than economists had expected. Major indices finished slightly lower as the Nasdaq index continues to see its losses fall sharper compared to the Dow and...

While investors watch the ongoing standoff between the West and Russia, and hope for fresh signs of economic growth in the GDP and PMI numbers, more off-season quarterly reports will roll out this week. Highlights will include earnings results from BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) and Walgreen (NYSE:...

U.S. stocks finished the day near session lows as investors found little reason to be bullish. Housing data came in poor and failed to rally the bulls. Several Fed members raised the idea of a rate hike but “participants agreed that, with the unemployment rate approaching 6.5 percent, it would...

On the earnings front, things will start out slow this week, but then FedEx (NASDAQ: FDX), Nike (NYSE: NKE), Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), Walgreen (NYSE: WAG) and others will take their turns in the earnings spotlight. Below is a quick look at what analysts expect from some of this week's most prominent...

Despite a shorter-than-usual holiday season this year, industry observers expect up to 140 million people do do their holiday shopping, both in-person and on-line, during the upcoming, four-day-long Thanksgiving break. A preliminary shopping survey by the National Retail Federation notes that...

Highlights on the earnings front this week will include the reports from Nike (NYSE: NKE) and BlackBerry (NYSE: BBRY). Analysts are looking for solid year-over-year revenue growth from both, as well as earnings growth from the former and a narrowed net loss from the latter. Others on deck to share...

A new Oppenheimer research report focuses on the information technology (IT) services industry, with its positive earnings and increasing domestic and global demand. The report also cited positive and rising alphas as a reason for its optimism. The analysts' top IT services picks include Alliance...

Here is a quick look at what analysts expect to see from SAIC (NYSE: SAI), Mosaic (NYSE: MOS), GameStop (NYSE: GME) and some of the other most prominent quarterly reports scheduled for this week. Accenture Second-quarter fiscal 2013 earnings from Dublin-based Accenture (NYSE: ACN) are expected to...

The middle of the week will bring a cluster of quarterly reports ahead of the Christmas break. Foremost among them are results from economic bellwether FedEx (NYSE: FDX), which is expected to post lower earnings, Nike (NYSE: NKE), whose EPS are forecast to be the same as a year ago, and Oracle (...

As the month and the calendar quarter winds down this week, highlights on the earnings front include reports from Nike (NYSE: NKE), Walgreen (NYSE: WAG), Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS), Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) and Carnival (NYSE: CCL). Analysts by and large anticipate per-share...

Sears Holding (NASDAQ: SHLD) is to be booted from the S&P 500 because it no longer considered representative of the index, according to Standard & Poor's. That is, Sears has too few shares available for trading to be representative of one of the world's top 500 companies. For investors who...