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After a quick breather on Monday, the earnings season that's just begun is off to the races the rest of the week. Among the flurry of quarterly reports include results from eBay Inc (NASDAQ: EBAY), General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL), Kinder Morgan Inc...

The earnings crunch continues this week, with quarterly reports due from tech and drug giants, the big automakers, airlines and many more. Analysts are looking for year-on-year earnings growth from the likes of:  Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA),...

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) stock is still sporting a long-term uptrend line despite its recent relative underperformance versus the broader market. Will it hold support at that line? Verizon shareholders have had to endure flat performance this year even as the S&P 500 and Dow...

U.S. stocks were mostly higher as investors and traders continue to weigh in on earnings from large-cap companies like Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and momentum high-flyers like Chipotle Mexican Grill and Intuitive Surgical. Despite geopolitical concerns, the S&P 500 managed to close at a...

While the Dow Jones Industrial Average is less than four percent higher in the past 90 days, it is near its all-time high. Among its top performing components, those up more than index average in the same period, analysts believe Coca-Cola, Disney, McDonald's, Nike and Verizon have the most upside...

U.S. stocks were higher as the back-end of 2014 kicked off. The Dow came within less than two points of reaching the 17,000 mark as investors and traders found plenty of positives in a better-than-expected June auto sales and an expansion in U.S. manufacturing. The S&P 500 also traded at...

Big investment firms are taking large positions in the telecommunications space as several deals take shape throughout the sector. Warren Buffett, Daniel Loeb and John Paulson all bought a sizable number of Verizon Communications shares and several dumped all or part of their stake in General...

In a story first reported by The Wall Street Journal, the Federal Communications Commission was expected on Thursday to propose new rules regarding net neutrality -- a broad concept that all Internet traffic should be treated equally. Depending on who was commenting, the new rules would either...

AT&T (NYSE: T) said it would join forces with the Chernin Group in a $500 million joint venture to create and launch a Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX)-style video streaming service. According to Gigaom this marked the first potential launch of an OTT TV service by a large U.S. ISP. AT&T is the...

The earnings crunch is underway. Highlights this week include scheduled quarterly reports from Amazon.com, Apple, Facebook, Netflix and Starbucks, which are all expected to post earnings growth, as well as from Ford, McDonald's and Microsoft, for which earnings declines are forecast. Here is a...

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), which has set its sights on wearable technology, gaming and the Internet of Things in its effort to move away from the dwindling PC market, is scheduled to report its first-quarter 2014 results on Tuesday, April 15, after the markets close. As a member of the Dow Jones...

We are on the verge of huge technological change, according to analysts at Oppenheimer. They see a coming convergence of mobile and cloud computing with telecommunications, in which companies such as DirecTV (NASDAQ: DTV), Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX) and T-Mobile US (NYSE: TMUS) may be may...

According to the Los Angeles Times, speculation about a merger between satellite broadcast companies Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) and DirecTV (NASDAQ: DTV) pops up about once every six months or so. Based on these rumors, the Times said, Dish and DirecTV stocks get a boost...then time passes,...

This weekend in Barron's online: Barron's Penta Quarterly, as well as the prospects for Verizon Communications, Yum! Brands, Atwood Oceanics, FTD Companies and more. Cover Story "Treasure Hunt" by Karen Hube. In the current turbulent market, leading wealth managers favor a triple-play of...