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Market Wrap For February 19: Stocks Close Lower, Nasdaq Ends Winning Streak
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 6:01pm | 2948U.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...
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Earnings Expectations For The Week Of February 10: AIG, Cisco, Deere, PepsiCo And More
Monday, February 10, 2014 - 7:33am | 990The earnings season is winding down. Most of the S&P 500 have reported fourth-quarter results, and the good news is that earnings beats have outnumbered earnings misses. Here is a quick rundown of what analysts expect from some of this week's most prominent quarterly reports. America Movil...
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Mobile Ad Spending Has Doubled So Far This Year
Friday, October 11, 2013 - 8:02am | 658Spending for the first half of 2013 on mobile advertising totaled $3 billion. It was $1.2 billion a year ago, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau. This represents growth of 145 percent and was a significant contributor to the historic $20.1 billion brought in by Internet advertisers...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of February 11
Sunday, February 10, 2013 - 6:48pm | 874Quarterly 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...
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Food and Beverage Picks for 2013: Kellogg and PepsiCo
Saturday, January 5, 2013 - 2:19pm | 567Bank of America/Merrill Lynch's "2013 Food and Beverage Year Ahead" report came out this past week. The analyst was looking for stocks of well-positioned companies with products that are protected from consumer weakness or those with strong franchises in developing markets. Its top turnaround...
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Food and Beverage Picks for 2013: Constellation Brands and Kraft Foods
Friday, January 4, 2013 - 9:14am | 556Bank of America/Merrill Lynch's "2013 Food and Beverage Year Ahead" report is out. The analyst was looking for stocks of well-positioned companies with products that are protected from consumer weakness or those with strong franchises in developing markets. Among its top stocks picks for this...
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Barron's Recap (9/29/12): Time to Buy Goldman
Monday, October 1, 2012 - 6:55am | 936This past weekend in Barron's online: why Goldman Sachs has held up better than its competitors, the prospects for Trinity Biotech, Steelcase and the Kraft Foods spinoff, and what it means to be a leader of philanthropic causes today. Cover Story "Built to Win" by Michael Santoli. In the...