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U.S. stocks rose for the third time in four days bringing the Dow back into positive territory for the year. Investors appeared to brush up poor retail sales from Macy's while focusing on business inventories that rose in June. On the international front, Ukraine said it would not allow...

Reports from Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) and Deere (NYSE: DE) will be among the highlights on the earnings front this week. Note, however,that analyst expectations are low for each of them. Furthermore, earnings season for the major retailers has arrived. Taking their turns on the earnings...

U.S. stocks were little changed ahead of the Federal Reserve's policy announcement due out on Wednesday. The Federal Reserve will conclude a two-day session, with the central bank likely to announce further cuts to its monthly asset purchases. In economic news, June home sales declined in...

This weekend in Barron's online: the Penta Quarterly and a profile of Barry Rosenstein, as well as the prospects for Avon Products, TD Ameritrade, Pitney Bowes and more. Cover Story "Jana Partners' Rosenstein" by Lawrence C. Strauss. How Barry Rosenstein rose from an Asher Edelman underling to...

U.S. stocks declined a day after the S&P 500 and Dow indices traded at record-high levels. Investors and traders were likely paying attention to the ten-year Treasury yield which hit 2.5258, the lowest level since late October. The bull market has paused, temporarily at least, until...

Most of the S&P 500 have already posted their first-quarter results. This week, big retailers begin to share their earnings reports. Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), the big daddy of retailers, steps onto the earnings stage Thursday. Macy's (NYSE: M) and J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) are also scheduled to...

U.S. stocks declined as investors continue to question China's growth prospects following Monday's shocking report that its exports had tumbled in February. Certainly not helping investor sentiment is the fact that Crimea's parliament voted to declare independence from Ukraine. This weekend,...

U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday as investors found a decline in consumer confidence as reason enough to keep stocks from moving higher. The S&P 500 retreated from its record all time high set yesterday but took a run above the 1,850 level in the late morning. The all time high for the index is...

Here's a look at the top tickers trending on StockTwits.com BlackBerry: Is the turnaround on track? BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) revealed its first Foxconn manufactured smartphone, the BlackBerry Z3. According to Techcrunch.com the phone is “a Nokia-like touchscreen smartphone with rounded sides, a...

Struggling retailer J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP), which George Soros's hedge fund recently exited, is scheduled to report its fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year results Wednesday, February 26, after the closing bell. Among other things, investors will have an eye on the company's liquidity and its...

Last week, Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) kicked off the parade of big retailers stepping into the earnings spotlight by offering up subpar same-store sales and weak guidance for the year. Inclement weather got some of the blame. Will that be so for Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), Gap (NYSE: GPS), Home Depot (NYSE...

U.S. stocks finished the day near session lows as investors found little reason to be bullish. Housing data came in poor and failed to rally the bulls. Several Fed members raised the idea of a rate hike but “participants agreed that, with the unemployment rate approaching 6.5 percent, it would...

Major indices ended the day little changed as investors and traders were not sure how to react to today's job reports. 74,000 jobs were added, well below the estimated 196,000. The report proved to be a complete contradiction to every other report previously seen. Related: ETFs Moving On The...

The anticipation over the Fed minutes was overdone as the markets read the statement as being a non-event. The minutes reaffirmed that committee members were still proceeding with caution and there is no preset timeline. In the wake of the minutes the Dow was down about 0.4 percent at 16,362.74...

Major indices saw plenty of red during the first trading session of 2014. There were no fundamental reasons for the Dow to suffer a triple digit point loss, along with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq indices ending the day lower. "People are taking profits and seeking bargains," according to Jim...