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U.S. stocks were unable to keep yesterday's momentum and ended the day sharply lower. The Dow suffered yet another triple digit decline with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq indices shedding more than one percent. In Ben Bernanke's final meeting as Fed chief, the FOMC tapered its monthly bond...

Here's a look at the top tickers trending on StockTwits.com Facebook: D-day is today After the market closes today, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) will release its fourth quarter results. The consensus estimate for EPS is $0.27 and $2.33 billion in revenue. Investors have heavily debated Facebook...

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,...

The market still sits at levels that many consider overvalued. Below is a list of notable stocks that have reached a 52-week high. If you’re a momentum trader, take note. Acxiom Corporation (NASDAQ: ACXM) The stock has had a huge year and its healthy Dow-theory-looking chart should have...

Lots of quarterly reports are on deck this week, to go along with all the delayed economic data expected to be released. Analysts and investors should have plenty to mull over. Earnings highlights will include reports from AT&T, McDonald's, Microsoft and Netflix, which are all expected to post...

The earnings crunch continues this week. Reports are due from the likes of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) and General Motors (NYSE: GM), which are expected to say their earnings were lower than a year ago. On the other hand, Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Ford (...

What’s the income investor to do? Major indices sit at all-time highs making the hunt for quality names paying a healthy dividend even harder to find. What if you could find stocks paying more than a four percent dividend, have a history of increasing their yield, and have an attractive chart?...

Here is a quick look at some of the top-performing dividend-paying stocks in the past month. These companies all have a market cap of more than $500 million, and their share prices are more than 20 percent higher than 30 days ago. Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF) shares jumped more than 30...

This weekend's Barron's features an article that suggests investors seeking bargains should look to Europe, despite the economy climate there. Here is a quick look at four stocks of European companies traded on U.S. exchanges that have seen their share prices climb more than 50 percent year to date...

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 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...