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This weekend's Barron's offers a look at a big pharma stock that acts like a big tech one. Other featured articles discuss an old-school chip stock poised to reward investors and who the players may be in the coming surge in cable and wireless deal making. The prospects for an obscure aircraft...

Upcoming earnings highlights include the latest results from two of the nation's leading local exchange carriers. Wall Street analysts are looking for earnings growth from just one of them. However, both telecoms have topped earnings expectations in recent quarters. Two of the...

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) kicks off the latest round of earnings from the big retailers. Some big gold companies will also take their turns in the earnings spotlight this week. Analysts expect to see year-over-year earnings declines from both Wal-Mart and Barrick Gold Corporation (USA) (...

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) has been on a spending spree investing in its wireless business while simultaneously converting non-core assets to cash to help fund recent purchases. Verizon recently announced that it had sold wireline assets located in California, Florida and Texas to...

October's jobs numbers are due at the end of the week, but before then there are plenty more earnings reports on the docket. Analysts are looking for year-on-year earnings growth from the likes of: Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI), American International Group Inc (NYSE: AIG...

Highlights on the earnings front this week include scheduled quarterly reports from Disney, Keurig Green Mountain, Pfizer and Whole Foods Market, which are expected to post year-over-year earnings gains. Analysts expect Tesla Motors to say its earnings declined, and for Groupon and SolarCity to...

After reaching five-year highs, natural gas retreated more than 10 percent Monday while the major U.S. markets were up sharply. Monday, the Dow gained about 104 points to close at 16,207.14. The S&P was up 0.6 percent, or about 11 points to close at 1,847.61, and the NASDAQ was down 0.7...

The main question going in to Tuesday's trading session was whethere the Fed will decide to scale back its $85 billion monthly bond buying program. A budget deal in Congress and solid economic data make the case that tapering will begin sooner rather than later. Major indices were virtually...

The results are in. Here are the top 10 shorted stocks for the month of February. Short interest is represented as a percentage of float. If you thought a market that doesn’t want to fall would cause the shorts to pile in as they wait for the pullback, there is no evidence of that just yet....