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Barron's Recap: Navigating the Bond Market
Sunday, October 6, 2013 - 9:54am | 959This weekend in Barron's online: Barron's Mutual Fund Quarterly, as well as the prospects for Amazon.com, Penn National Gaming, Latam Airlines, PICO Holdings and more. Cover Story "How to Navigate the Bond Market" by Michael Aneiro. Given that interest rates will rise, Barron's asks in this...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of July 29
Sunday, July 28, 2013 - 2:00pm | 1337The oil and gas industry will be well represented on this week's earnings stage, with reports due from supermajors Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) and Chevron (NYSE: CVX), and many others in the field. Viacom (NYSE: VIAB) and Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) will be the highlights among the various media companies...
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The Top 10 Fortune 500 Companies for 2013
Friday, May 10, 2013 - 2:21pm | 73This year's list of Fortune 500 companies was released yesterday to much fanfare. Among the highlights was Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) regaining the top spot and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) making the top ten for the first time. Benzinga has you covered with a list of the top ten, including each company's 2012...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of April 29
Sunday, April 28, 2013 - 5:31pm | 1146First-quarter results from General Motors (NYSE: GM) will be one of the highlights on the earnings front this week. Analysts anticipate that the carmaker will say Thursday its revenue slipped about three percent from a year ago to $36.60 billion, but that earnings fell from $0.93 per share a year...
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Three 'Elite' Oil and Gas Stocks (HAL, PSX, TSO)
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 12:04pm | 778A new research report from UBS featured an "elite eight" momentum stocks that, despite outperforming the markets, the analyst believes still have plenty of room to run in the near term. Three oil and gas stocks made the list: Halliburton (NYSE: HAL), Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX) and Tesoro (NYSE: TSO...
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Whirlpool, Phillips 66 and Other Top Dividend Stocks of the Past Six Months
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 4:00pm | 866Here's a quick look at eight of the best-performing stocks of the past six months that also had dividend yields of two percent or more. Administradora de Fondos de Pensiones Provida (NYSE: PVD) has risen more than 31 percent in the past six months, despite pulling back more than four percent from...
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Barron's Recap (5/5/12): The Barron's 500
Sunday, May 6, 2012 - 9:25am | 1001This weekend in Barron's online: the annual ranking of the top 500 companies (as well as finding bargain stocks from the list) and the prospects for airline United Continental, insurer Unum Group and the recently spun-off Phillips 66. Cover Story "Bravo to the Best!" by Jacqueline Doherty. It is...