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Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer. Week-long vacations are done, weekend trips to the lake are winding down, and for sports fanatics, here comes football season. But there’s a lot of science behind Labor Day. Consumers spend in very predictable ways making this weekend a key revenue...

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...

Insiders may sell shares for any number of reasons, but conventional wisdom is that insiders really only buy shares of a company for one reason -- they believe the stock price will move higher and they want to profit from it. Pullbacks and sell-offs provide a perfect opportunity for investors...

The National Association of Publicly Traded Partnerships (NAPTP) is holding its investor conference this week. And there is more to cheer about this year, now that master limited partnerships (MLPs) are up 22.6 percent so far this year. MLPs underperformed the broader markets last year. Among the...

Traders know that when a stock crosses over its 50 day moving average to the upside, that’s a bullish sign. We screened thousands of stocks and found five that might be worth some of your research time. Comcast Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) is a diversified media company with 22 million cable...

The earnings crunch is in full swing this week. Some of the highlights include anticipated quarterly reports from the likes of Apple, Amazon.com and Ford, which analysts expect to report lower per-share earnings for the most recent quarter than a year ago. On the other hand, year-over year...

A research report from UBS (NYSE: UBS) released this week included a list of the analyst's “least preferred” stocks. The stocks on the list had an average potential downside of 20 percent. The list also offers candidates for investors to sell or to short. Three struggling retail stocks made the...

A new research report from UBS featured an "elite eight" momentum stocks that, despite outperforming the markets, the analyst believes still have plenty of room to run in the near term. Three oil and gas stocks made the list: Halliburton (NYSE: HAL), Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX) and Tesoro (NYSE: TSO...

On February 25, 1913, Secretary of State Philander Knox proclaimed that three-fourths of the states had ratified the 16th Amendment, thereby making the collection of income tax the law of the land. When Congress passed the law in 1913, a couple making more than $4,000 in taxable income, after...

There are lots more on the earnings calendar this week, including results from Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) for the three months that included the release of the iPhone 5. Monday Results from Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) and Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) will be the highlights on Monday, and analysts expect to see...

The short interest data is out from the August 15 settlement date showing mixed results for the oil and gas sector. Generally, these stocks are not heavily shorted -- who really thinks the price of oil will collapse any time soon? Shares sold short in BP (NYSE: BP), Chevron (NYSE: CVX) and...

The earnings crunch rolls on. Analysts are looking for strong earnings growth in this week's quarterly reports from Apple, Caterpillar, Starbucks and Visa. But ConocoPhillips, Ford and Netflix are among those expected to post significantly lower per-share earnings, compared to the same period of a...