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This weekend's Barron's cover story offers some stocks poised to rebound as the economy reopens. Other featured articles look at why now is a good time to buy insurance stocks, and who wins as Americans take to the roads again. Also, the prospects for a senior-living stock, cruise and...

Insider buying can be an encouraging signal for potential investors. A couple of biotech companies saw notable buying last week. So did a oil and gas midstream company in the midst of a merger. Conventional wisdom says that insiders and 10-percent owners really only buy shares of a company for one...

This weekend's Barron's provides a look at four profit champs for your portfolio. Other featured articles include a bargain play on luxury real estate and a cruise operator with momentum. Also, big opportunities in tiny stocks and where to find big yields. "4 Profit Champs for Your...

Marathon Petroleum Corp (NYSE: MPC) shares have run up sharply in the year-to-date period, prompting UBS to move to the sidelines. The firm's toned-down view comes despite improved refining fundamentals. The Analyst  UBS analyst Spiro Dounis downgraded shares of Marathon Petroleum from...

Benzinga has featured a look at many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bearish calls included an iconic industrial and a popular consumer products maker. Bullish calls featured a media giant and the leading EV producer. From the holiday last week to the hurricanes, forest fires and...

This weekend's Barron's cover story helps investors prepare for the coming bear market. Other featured articles discuss how insurance, refiner and auto stocks are expected to fare in the wake of the devastation left by Hurricane Harvey. The prospects for a high-profile brand food...

Three petroleum giants are on deck to share their latest earnings results this week. Consensus forecasts indicate that analysts' expectations for all three are low. Net losses are predicted for many others in the oil patch as well. Among the many earnings reports due this week, highlights will...

What does Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX)'s surprise net loss portent for ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) and Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM)? Analysts expectations are pretty low for earnings from Conoco and Exxon. Many other oil companies are expected to post earnings declines or net losses....

This weekend in Barron's online: the former Wells Fargo Advisors CEO who answered God's call, a special report on exchange traded funds, as well as the prospects for Starbucks, Linn Energy, LG Display, TreeHouse Foods and more. Cover Story "Answering God's Call" by Ed Finn. This week's cover story...

Analysts at Oppenheimer said in a new research note that the more than five year outperformance of refining stocks will continue. The analysts upgraded HollyFrontier Corp (NYSE: HFC), Marathon Petroleum Corp (NYSE: MPC), Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX) and Tesoro Corporation (NYSE: TSO) to...

Judging by the consensus price targets, or where analysts expect share prices to go, U.S. oil companies in various categories with the largest upside potential include supermajor Chevron (NYSE: CVX), independent Cabot Oil & Gas (NYSE: COG), refiner Marathon Petroleum (NYSE: MPC), services...

U.S. stocks picked up right where they left off following Wednesday's rally. Investors were given a mixed bag of economic data covering U.S. manufacturing, initial purchasing managers' index in China, existing home sales, Fed activity among others. Investors are likely focusing more on...

The earnings crunch continues this week. Among the highlights will be scheduled quarterly reports from Exxon Mobil and Chevron, from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck, from Time Warner and Viacom, and also from Twitter. Early Thursday, Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) is expected to say that it had earnings...

The earnings crunch is on this week. Highlights will include reports from Amazon.com, Apple, Boeing, Comcast, Facebook, Google and Yahoo! All of them are expected to report year-over-year growth in per-share earnings. But analysts are looking for declining profits from the likes of Caterpillar,...