American International Group

October's jobs numbers are due at the end of the week, but before then there are plenty more earnings reports on the docket. Analysts are looking for year-on-year earnings growth from the likes of: Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI), American International Group Inc (NYSE: AIG...

On Wednesday morning, the People’s Bank of China announced that it was planning to keep monetary policy steady throughout 2014, despite conflicting reports from the nation’s finance ministry. The ministry reported that, total fiscal spending in May increased to 1.3 trillion yuan,...

U.S. stocks were higher on Friday, marking the third consecutive week of gains. Investors cheered May's job report which showed a slow and steady improvement in the labor market. Continuing the trend set in recent trading sessions, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 index...

This weekend in Barron's online: the Barron's Big Money poll, as well as the prospects for AIG, Pfizer, Tullow, Trinity Biotech and more. Cover Story "U.S. Money Managers Are Cautiously Optimistic" by Jack Willoughby. Barron's Big Money poll reveals that fewer money managers are bullish. But...

American International Group (NYSE: AIG) is up less than one percent in after hours trading after the company announced its fourth quarter results. The company reported a Q4 EPS of $1.15 versus the Street estimate of $0.96. Earnings per share were up 475 percent from the year-ago period. "AIG's...

The earnings season is winding down. Most of the S&P 500 have reported fourth-quarter results, and the good news is that earnings beats have outnumbered earnings misses. Here is a quick rundown of what analysts expect from some of this week's most prominent quarterly reports. America Movil...

Major indices continued to plummet on Friday with no economic data released that could rejuvenate the market. Investors remain worried about a Chinese slowdown, a mixed-bag of corporate results on Wall Street and possible further tapering just around the corner as the Fed meets again next...

In a move described as the largest in nearly a decade, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Alcoa (NYSE: AA), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) would be dropped from the Dow Industrials at the close of trading September 20. Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), Nike (...

The oil and gas industry will be well represented on this week's earnings stage, with reports due from supermajors Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) and Chevron (NYSE: CVX), and many others in the field. Viacom (NYSE: VIAB) and Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) will be the highlights among the various media companies...

After taking a look at the prospects for higher interest rates and how investor sentiment might be affected by them, analysts at UBS (NYSE: UBS) have recommended three financial stocks that stand to benefit most from rising rates over the short term. They are insurers Lincoln National (NYSE: LNC...

This past weekend in Barron's online: the results of the autumn Big Money Poll, the prospects for General Mills, Hyster-Yale Materials Handling and Barnes & Noble, as well as what President Obama does and does not know about American business. Cover Story "Bye-Bye Bull?" by Jacqueline...

Recent earnings disappointments from tech giants like Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), as well as industrials such as Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) and DuPont (NYSE: DD), have taken their toll. The S&P 500 is down about three percent in the past three weeks....

This weekend in Barron's online: 10 top Chinese brands, a look at Sears, GameStop, and Reading International, and how to play American exceptionalism. Cover Story "10 Chinese Brands You Must Know" by Kopin Tan. The Chinese government would like nothing more than for its 1.4 billion citizens to "...

Most of the companies that compose the S&P 500 have reported second-quarter results already. According to Bloomberg, some 72 percent of S&P 500 companies that have reported quarterly results so far have exceeded analysts' estimates. But the earnings season is not over quite yet. Among the...