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Infosys Limited (NYSE:INFY) Consulting’s global AI co-lead, Martin Weis, has voiced concerns over the potential for social unrest in the U.K. due to the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence.  Weis suggested that significant upheaval may ensue if societal...

This weekend's Barron's features a special report on investing in international stocks. Other featured articles offer the prospects for an integrated circuits maker with room to run and a jet leasing company with hidden virtues. The outlook for a text book publisher and a cosmetics giant are also...

The high-flying Indian IT outsourcing industry has withstood several challenges in the past. However, a recent obstacle has sent the industry into a tailspin, as these firms scurry around to identify strategies to work around the hindrance. The industry — valued at over $150 billion and...

Quarterly reports are few this week ahead of fourth-quarter reporting's kickoff. Results due from a leading food retailer and a national airline will be highlights. Do low analysts' expectations for these reports presage the earnings season to come? In what may be the calm before the storm on the...

The cover story in this weekend's Barron's examines the resurgence of stock picking over passively managed investing. More than half of actively managed mutual funds have outperformed the S&P 500 in the second half of this year. Other featured articles offer the latest Barron's Emerging...

Three of the big U.S. banks help to kick off a new earnings season this week Wall Street analysts expect to see earnings declines from all three of them. But consensus forecasts also predict marginal top-line growth from two. The third-quarter earnings reporting season is just getting underway...

Three big banks are among companies kicking off the new earnings season this week. Consensus forecasts from Wall Street analysts call for bottom-line declines from all three of them. However, one is expected to offer some growth in revenue, relative to the year-ago period. The second-quarter...

FedEx Corporation (NYSE: FDX) Chairman and CEO Fred Smith will deliver the company’s first quarter 2015 earnings report September 17. The occasion would mark the first opportunity for FedEx to show whether it could stage a turnaround from last year. The Wall Street Journal...

Alcoa (NYSE: AA), the traditional kickoff to a new earnings season, steps into the earnings spotlight this week, and analysts are looking for mixed results for the second quarter. Will that be a harbinger for reports to come? Things really get started when Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), the first of...

U.S. stocks declined as investors demonstrated concerns over recent escalations of violence in Iraq. Crude oil rose as a wave of violence has seen Mosul and Tikrit (two cities key to Iraq's oil industry) fall to insurgent forces. The Senate confirmed former Bank of Israel government...

The new earnings season kicks into high gear this shortened week. Highlights will include quarterly reports from Bank of America, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, from Intel and IBM, and from Coca-Cola, which are all expected to post earnings declines, as well as from Google and Johnson & Johnson...

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...

Some smaller tech companies saw unusual movement in their stocks on Friday. But not just in Bazaarvoice (NASDAQ: BV), FARO Technologies (NASDAQ: FARO), Hurco Companies (NASDAQ: HURC) and Unwired Planet (NASDAQ: UPIP), which are discussed below. Also included are radio frequency (RF)...