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Facebook And Amazon: More Earnings From The FANG Stocks
Sunday, April 24, 2016 - 4:38pm | 741Two of the so-called FANG stocks offered up disappointing quarterly results last week. The other two FANG stocks are on deck to share their latest results this week. Wall Street analysts continue to look for strong earnings growth from both of them. The so-called FANG stocks were the momentum...
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Chrysler And Ford Earnings: Following In GM's Footsteps?
Sunday, April 24, 2016 - 4:38pm | 725Upcoming earnings highlights include the latest results from two automaker giants. Wall Street analysts are looking for strong earnings growth from both of them. However, estimates have been slipping for one and rising for the other. Expectations were already high for the latest earnings from...
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GM And GE: Will Revitalization Efforts Pay Out In Earnings?
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - 4:43pm | 590Upcoming earnings highlights include the latest results from two old-school giants striving to improve their prospects. Wall Street analysts are looking for earnings growth from just one of them. However, both have handily bested earnings expectations in recent quarters. The new earnings season...
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McDonald's Vs. Starbucks: Which Earnings Will Be Tastier?
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - 9:19am | 607Upcoming earnings highlights include the latest results from two popular purveyors of coffee and other consumables. Wall Street analysts are looking for earnings growth each of them, but a top-line decline from one. And, one of them has a better record of topping earnings expectations in recent...
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Will Intel And Microsoft Top Earnings Expectations Again?
Sunday, April 17, 2016 - 7:01pm | 559The first-quarter earnings reporting season kicks into high gear this week. Highlights will include the latest results from two technology giants. Wall Street analysts are looking for earnings growth from both of them. The new earnings season is underway, and among the highlights this week will...
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Coke Versus Pepsi: Which Beats Low Q1 Earnings Expectations?
Sunday, April 17, 2016 - 6:56pm | 580The first-quarter earnings reporting season kicks into high gear this week. Highlights will include the latest results from two beverage giant rivals. Wall Street analysts are looking for earnings declines from both of them. The new earnings season is underway, and among the highlights this week...
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Carl Icahn Tweeting Up A Storm About Xerox Split
Friday, January 29, 2016 - 10:35am | 522Xerox Corp (NYSE: XRX) announced on Friday it will split itself into two public companies following the completion of a strategic review. Xerox said its business will split will result in the creation of an $11 billion Document Technology company and a $7 billion Business Process Outsourcing...
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Will Xerox Beat The Market?
Tuesday, April 21, 2015 - 2:23pm | 405In a report published Monday, BMO Capital Markets analyst Keith Bachman offered some thoughts on Xerox Corp (NYSE: XRX), noting that his "scorecard" for calendar year 2015 includes more positives than negatives. The Positives According to Bachman, Xerox's printing business has...
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Markets Reverse Early Morning Losses; Still Lower On The Day
Thursday, August 28, 2014 - 4:40pm | 2611U.S. stocks declined as geopolitical concerns outweighed an improved economic read on second-quarter growth. Ukraine's President stated that Russian troops had crossed in to Ukraine territory and were fighting alongside Russian supported separatists. Markets initially traded lower on the...
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5 Companies That Allow People To Work From Home
Thursday, August 14, 2014 - 12:30pm | 890Companies most likely to offer workers the opportunity to work from home are those involved in health care, IT, education, nonprofit and sales, according to Forbes. The list of companies that offer telecommuting options is surprisingly extensive. One website, Flexjobs, has created a database of...
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Dow Flirts With 17,000, S&P 500 Inches Closer To 2,000 In First Trading Day Of The Third Quarter
Tuesday, July 1, 2014 - 4:48pm | 2089U.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...
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Market Wrap For June 6: Markets Higher After In-Line Jobs Report
Friday, June 6, 2014 - 4:47pm | 1530U.S. stocks were higher on Friday, marking the third consecutive week of gains. Investors cheered May's job report which showed a slow and steady improvement in the labor market. Continuing the trend set in recent trading sessions, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 index...
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Barron's Recap: Top 10 Takeover Targets
Monday, May 26, 2014 - 12:43pm | 849This weekend in Barron's online: how to play the merger boom, as well as the prospects for Time Inc., Global Brass & Copper, Barnes & Noble and more. Cover Story "Top 10 Ways to Play M&A" by Jack Hough. Mergers are at near-record levels, says this week's cover story in Barron's, and...
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Market Wrap For May 6: Dow Suffers Triple-Digit Point Loss, Nasdaq Underperforms Once Again
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 4:42pm | 2644U.S. stocks declined on Tuesday after the Dow and S&P 500 closed near all time highs. Momentum names such as Twitter, Facebook, Tesla and others saw heavy losses. Not helping the cause was poor earnings by American International Group on Monday which dragged the financial sector lower....
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The Top 21 African-American CEOs In Business
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 12:50pm | 118In 2013, Benzinga identified nearly two dozen of the top African-American heads of big-name firms, despite an overall lack of representation in the higher levels of business. Over the course of the last year, many have seen their companies continue to grow. The black CEOs on the list come from...