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Heavy equipment maker Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT), which continues to rely heavily on the markets in China, is scheduled to report its third-quarter 2013 results Wednesday, October 23, before the markets open. About a third of Caterpillar's revenue and approximately half of its profit come from China...

After a quiet start to the week on the earnings front, the big retailers begin to share their second-quarter results. First up, Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), Macy's (NYSE: M), Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN) and Kohl's (NYSE: KSS). More big retailers are on deck the following week. This week's highlights also...

The earnings season is beginning to wind down, and much of the focus this week will turn to central bank meetings and economic data from China and the United States. But, there are still plenty of earnings reports on the schedule this week, including those from Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS), Time...

Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT), shares of which have pulled back lately after noted short-seller Jim Chanos said he was short the stock, is scheduled to report its second-quarter 2013 results Wednesday, July 24, before the markets open. Caterpillar has grown increasingly dependent on China, with almost a...

It's time for the big retailers to step into the earnings spotlight once again. This week we will be hearing from Walmart, the king of retailers, which is expected to report some annual revenue and earnings growth. And then there is struggling J.C. Penney, from which analysts predict a deeper net...

Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT), shares of which have retreated toward a 52-week low as it saw an analyst downgrade this week, is scheduled to report its first-quarter 2013 results Monday, April 22, before the markets open. Investors remain concerned about the outlook for the global economy, particularly...

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 who...

If somebody asked you to explain risk/reward, what would you say? You’d probably say that it tells you if there’s enough upside profit potential to justify the risk. You’re right, but how do you know? Did you know that risk/reward is a calculation and professional traders would tell you that if...

For the purest of technical analysts, two things matter: price and volume. Sure, many will combine some degree of fundamental analysis into the mix but if you’re of the opinion that the markets are becoming more technically driven, you know that the charts can tell a great story all by themselves...

This weekend in Barron's online: a Penta asset-allocation survey, the Dow ready to hit a record high, and the prospects for Barnes & Noble, Danone, Forestar Group and Asian markets. Cover Story "More Stocks, Fewer Bonds" by Karen Hube. After years of investing defensively, the largest...

With winter snow still flying in the nation’s heartland, farmers are hard at work repairing corn planters, upgrading and modifying, even adding electronics -- anything that will give them an edge as they try to recover from the drought of 2012. Plans are already in place to plant the most corn...

Yale Economics professor Robert Shiller told CNBC Monday that investors should put their money into stocks or farmland. Stocks, OK, but … farmland? Turns out the respected co-founder of the Case-Shiller Home Price Index may be on to something. "The CME futures market has [home prices]...

Quarterly reports from General Motors (NYSE: GM) and Deere (NYSE: DE) will be among the highlights on the earnings front this week. The consensus forecast for the former calls for fourth-quarter earnings per share (EPS) to be more than 23 percent higher than a year ago to $0.51 per share. The...

If you trade like famed investor Dennis Gartman, you buy high and sell higher. If the chart starts at the lower left and trends to the upper right that means money for long investors. On Wednesday, some notable companies logged 52 week highs with charts that did just that. Berkshire Hathaway's B...

Insiders may sell shares for any number of reasons, but there is really only one reason insiders buy shares of a company -- 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 who have faith in a company...