Intuitive Surgical

U.S. stocks kicked off a new month and new quarter with solid gains as U.S. manufacturing growth improved in March. The indexes have now logged a three-day winning streak, an accomplishment which was completely absent throughout all of March. The S&P 500 hit new all-time highs of 1,885.84...

U.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...

Major indices continued to plummet on Friday with no economic data released that could rejuvenate the market. Investors remain worried about a Chinese slowdown, a mixed-bag of corporate results on Wall Street and possible further tapering just around the corner as the Fed meets again next...

Shares of Luna Innovations (NASDAQ: LUNA) were up almost 90 percent on Wednesday. The 6.6 million shares that changed hands blew away the average of 158,448 shares per day, so what caused this $36 million company to nearly double in value? The company announced that it’s selling its shape-...

The earnings season ramps up this week, providing plenty of perspective on how the financial and technology sectors fared in the second quarter. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), Citigroup (NYSE: C), Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Intel (NYSE: INTC), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and many...

In a pre-announcement Monday evening, Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG) said that it expects to report net income of $160 million and revenue of $575 million--a catastrophic miss versus analyst expectations of $177.7 million and $630.4 million respectively. The company developed the da Vinci...

It's official. With its shares eclipsing the $900 mark, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is trading in the nosebleeds. Out of curiosity, Benzinga decided to look where other publicly traded companies in the S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) were trading at. This only includes the S&P 500 -- otherwise companies...

This weekend in Barron's online: a manufacturing boom in the United States is in its early days, part two of the Barron's 2013 Roundtable picks and pans, and the prospects for Intuitive Surgical, Apple and Ryman Hospitality Properties. Cover Story "The Next Boom" by Kopin Tan. After decades of...

The earnings crunch gets underway this week, with big names in the financial, technology, consumer goods and other sectors on tap to share their most recent quarterly results. Among those expected to post the biggest year-over-year gains in earnings are Abbott Labs (NYSE: ABT), BlackRock (NYSE: BLK...