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By Steve Birenberg, Minyanville The conclusion of a slightly disappointing TV upfront selling season and renewed macroeconomic worries have brought the outlook for ad spending to the forefront for media stock investors. In addition, the stock market has reverted to the highly volatile “risk on...

This weekend in Barron's online: a midyear updated on the markets, the likely effects of the Supreme Court's ruling on Obamacare, and the prospects for alternative ETFs and Time Warner. Cover Story "Caution: Sharp Turns Ahead" by Lauren R. Rublin. It is time for Barron's midyear update, which is...

The parade of earnings from major retailers begins this week with quarterly reports due from Kohl's (NYSE: KSS), Macy's (NYSE: M) and Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN). Analysts expect to see year-over-year revenue growth from all three, but lower per-share earnings from Kohl's. Many more retailers are...

Analysts expect to see double-digit per-share earnings growth from Agilent Technologies (NYSE: A), Apache (NYSE: APA), CBS (NYSE: CBS), Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA), DirecTV (NASDAQ: DTV) and Marriot International (NYSE: MAR) when they report quarterly results this week. Other prominent reports on the...

Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) is scheduled to report third-quarter 2011 results Thursday, November 3, after the markets close. In its previous report, the company ended a streak of three quarters of year-over-year profit growth when it fell short of consensus estimates. However, revenues...

Halloween and the Day of the Dead arrive this week. If analysts' forecasts are correct, there are only a few earnings reports that may scare investors. For instance, Alpha Natural Resources (NYSE: ANR) earnings are predicted to have fallen 93.1% year over year to $0.58 per share. Allstate (NYSE:...

Quarterly reports of note scheduled for this week include those from Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE: ADM), General Motors (NYSE: GM), MasterCard (NYSE: MA), Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), all of which are expected to post earnings growth, as well as Pfizer (NYSE: PFE)...

Menlo Park, California-based startup Badgeville announced that it has closed a $12 million Series B round of funding, led by Norwest Venture Partners and El Dorado Ventures. The additional capital will be used to ramp its business. Badgeville builds loyalty programs for media and e-commerce...

Bank of America reiterated its Buy rating on Discovery Communications (NASDAQ: DISCA). At the same time, the rating agency left its price target on the company's stock unchanged at $49. On Thursday, DISCA ended the day at $40.96.

Deutsche Bank reiterated its Buy rating on Discovery Communications (NASDAQ: DISCA). At the moment, the rating agency has a price target of $52 placed on the company's stock. On Wednesday, Discovery closed the day at $40.69.

The much ballyhooed joint-venture between Hasbro (NASDAQ: HAS) and Discovery Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: DISCA), The Hub, may be in trouble, writes Deadline. Discovery Communications filed an amended debt filing this morning saying that the TV network, could be worth substantially less than the...

Citi is out with its report today on Discovery Communications (NASDAQ: DISCA), maintaining Hold. In a note to clients, Citi writes, "Earlier this year, Discovery launched the Oprah Winfrey Network and shuttered Discovery Health. Although OWN is likely a smart move by Discovery we think the likely...

Citi is out with its report today on Discovery Communications (NASDAQ: DISCA), maintaining Hold and a $45 PT. In a note to clients, Citi writes, "Discovery reported revenue of $1.015 billion, up 7% versus last year, and up 7% growth on recast numbers. This was 1% below Street estimates. Domestic...