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This week brings the first-quarter report from Alcoa (NYSE: AA), the traditional kickoff of a new earnings season. But its relevance may be diminishing, now that the company is no longer part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. With the end-of-the-week earnings reports from J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM...

Earnings highlights this week include reports from Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) and Monsanto (NYSE: MON). Apollo Education (NASDAQ: APOL) and CarMax (NYSE: KMX) are also scheduled to take their turns in the earnings spotlight this week. Below is a quick look at what analysts expect from these...

U.S. stocks rose as investors digested jobless claims data which fell to a three month low ahead of Friday's monthly employment report. The S&P 500 was lifted to a new all time high of 1,8881.94 while the Dow recorded modest gains. The Nasdaq finished in the red The Fed's Bill Dudley...

The anticipation over the Fed minutes was overdone as the markets read the statement as being a non-event. The minutes reaffirmed that committee members were still proceeding with caution and there is no preset timeline. In the wake of the minutes the Dow was down about 0.4 percent at 16,362.74...

Quarterly reports from Alcoa (NYSE: AA) have long been considered the kickoff to a new earnings season, though its role may become less relevant now that it has been dropped from the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Along with Alcoa, Micron Technologies (NYSE: MU), Monsanto (NYSE: MON), SUPERVALU (...

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...

Quarterly reports from Nike (NYSE: NKE), Walgreen (NYSE: WAG) and BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) will be among the highlights on the earnings front this week. Here is a quick look at what analysts are expecting from these and some of the week's other, most prominent earnings reports. See also:...

Quarterly reports from FedEx (NYSE: FDX), Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) and Kroger (NYSE: KR) will be among the highlights on the earnings front this week. Here is a quick look at what analysts are expecting from these and some of the week's other, most prominent earnings reports. See also: Weekly...

The new earnings season gets underway this week, with Alcoa (NYSE: AA) on deck late Monday and J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM) scheduled to report first-quarter results Friday morning. By and large, analysts expect to see a year-over-year decline in per-share earnings from the former, but EPS growth,...

This weekend in Barron's online: a profile of Howard Marks, investors return to online brokers, and the prospects for Bed Bath & Beyond, Live Nation Entertainment and Genworth Financial. Cover Story "Master of Disaster" by Jonathan R. Laing. This week's cover story is a profile of Howard...

On Tuesday, analysts upgraded some notable stocks. Below is a summary of some of those names. Bed Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ: BBBY) was upgraded from Neutral to Buy at Citigroup with a $67 price target. Reasons for the upgrade included an attractive valuation and improving differentiation. The...

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 (...

Pier 1 Imports (NYSE: PIR), which recently announced a strong start to the holiday shopping season, is scheduled to report its third-quarter fiscal 2013 results Thursday, December 13, before the markets open. Investors will be looking to see if anything has changed since the recently announced...

FedEx (NYSE: FDX), an ostensible bellwether of the global economy, is on tap to share its most recent quarterly results this week, and analysts anticipate slightly lower per-share earnings compared to the same period a year ago. However, the forecasts for tech companies Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE...