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Earnings highlights for the week include reports from Carnival Corp (NYSE: CCL), Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) and Nike Inc (NYSE: NKE). Analysts on average expect year-on-year earnings growth these three, but the forecasts call for an earnings decline from Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MU) and...

A relatively quiet week on the earnings front will be highlighted by the most recent quarterly results from BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ: BBRY), Carnival Corp (NYSE: CCL), ConAgra Foods Inc (NYSE: CAG), GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) and Lululemon Athletica inc. (NASDAQ: LULU). If the analysts'...

This weekend in Barron's online: the bullish outlook for 2015, as well as the prospects for Carnival, Royal Caribbean, FMC and more. Cover Story "Outlook 2015: Stick With the Bull" by Vito J. Racanelli. Top strategists from Wall Street anticipate a rally of 10 percent in the S...

The new earnings season is still a couple of weeks away, but a handful of notable quarterly reports are scheduled for this week. Analysts are looking for earnings growth in results from Carnival Corporation (NYSE: CCL), KB Home (NYSE: KBH), Micron Technology Inc. (NYSE: MU) and Nike Inc (...

U.S. stocks declined, following Europe's lead following the European Central Bank's decision to keep interest rates unchanged. The ECB's President Mario Draghi reaffirmed the bank's intention of considering "unconventional moves," which includes buying asset-backed...

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...

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:...

If you’re thinking of booking a cruise for a future vacation, now might be the time thanks to a string of outbreaks that have caused cruise lines to drop prices to bargain-basement levels. It all started with Royal Caribbean (NYSE: RCL). The cruise line was forced to cut a recent cruise short...

Last week’s market action pushed many of the stock market giants below their 50-day moving average. Value investors spent the weekend pouring over their watch lists to find those stocks that might represent value, but there’s another way to look at the action. What about the stocks that didn’t...

Record cold temperatures are gripping much of the nation but expect the U.S. markets to return to business as usual this week now that the holiday season is over. Investors will watch Washington as the monthly jobs report hits the market Friday as well as minutes from the Federal Reserve’s most...

Major indices received a boost in Friday's trading activity following a better than expected third quarter GDP. The surprising economic data is yet another key data that may suggests that the economy is healthy enough and could handle the Fed's recent decision to taper its bond buying program....

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...

Quarterly reports from Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE), Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST), H&R Block (NYSE: HRB), Lululemon Athletica (NASDAQ: LULU) and Toll Brothers (NYSE: TOL) will be among the highlights on the earnings front this week. Below is a quick look at what analysts expect from some...