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Arts and crafts retailer Michaels (NASDAQ: MIK) is set to open for trading Friday and will be scraping for demand among other new issues in the busiest IPO week for a June since 2000, according to Renaissance Capital. Michaels was taken private in 2006 by Bain Capital and Blackstone Group...

The new earnings season kicks into high gear this shortened week. Highlights will include quarterly reports from Bank of America, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, from Intel and IBM, and from Coca-Cola, which are all expected to post earnings declines, as well as from Google and Johnson & Johnson...

A new research report this past week from Bernstein Research touted private equity firms Apollo Global Management (NYSE: APO), Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX) and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (NYSE: KKR) as the best pure-play growth stocks in the financial services sector. The analysts see significant...

This past week, Credit Suisse added Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE: APC), BankUnited (NYSE: BKU), Dow Chemical (NYSE: DOW) and Superior Energy Services (NYSE: SPN) to its Top Picks list. Like other financial services firms, Credit Suisse has a list of stocks in which its analysts have complete faith....

The earnings crunch is on this week. Highlights will include reports from Amazon.com, Apple, Boeing, Comcast, Facebook, Google and Yahoo! All of them are expected to report year-over-year growth in per-share earnings. But analysts are looking for declining profits from the likes of Caterpillar,...

Among the financial stocks that analysts at Credit Suisse expect to flourish in the coming year are private equity firms Apollo Global Management (NYSE: APO) and Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX), as well as investment broker giant Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) and asset manager State Street (NYSE: STT...

It was a good week for U.S. markets, but going into the weekend, some names gave investors the gift of a compelling technical setup. To get the week started, we compiled five large cap. stocks that crossed above their 50 day moving averages. If you’re looking for some trading ideas for the week,...

It is not unusual for stocks on a tear to overrun their mean price targets, which is a signal of how far analysts on average expect the share price to climb. Some of the top-performing financial stocks over the past six months that pay dividends, such as CapLease (NYSE: LSE), NYSE Euronext (NYSE...

Now children old and young will be able to own a piece of Shamu. SeaWorld (NYSE: SEAS) opens to the public on Friday. Much like Disney (NYSE: DIS), this will surely be the next great, “buy a share of stock for your child” gift, but Wall Street is clearly excited about it too. SeaWorld...

This weekend in Barron's online: the drama over a buyout for Dell, beneficial share buybacks, outraged Russian investors, and the prospects for Eaton, STMicroelectronics and Ruby Tuesday. Cover Story "Michael Dell's Folly" by Andrew Bary. Now that Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX) and activist...

Knight Capital Group (NYSE: KCG) received bidding offers from two market makers: Getco LLC and Virtu Financial LLC. Wednesday, Virtu made an offer to buy the Chicago-based high-frequency trader for about $3 a share. Getco has potentially launched a bidding war by placing an offer to purchase Knight...