Yum! Brands Inc. (YUM) has reported earnings. The owner of KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut posted $0.63 EPS after a gain and $0.50 EPS outside of items and $2.48 ... Read Full Story »
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) posted earnings, and the chip and processor giant made $0.18 in non-GAAP EPS and $8.02 billion in revenues. Thomson Reuters estimates of $0.08 EPS on $7.27 ... Read Full Story »
Generally speaking, it takes one significant analyst call to move a stock 10%. Yet today, that is exactly what we are seeing in shares of Blue Nile Inc. (NASDAQ: NILE). ... Read Full Story »
Health Net Inc. (NYSE: HNT) is one of today's worse performers on the heels of losing its Pentagon health insurance contract. The Pentagon picked Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) and UnitedHealth ... Read Full Story »
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is set to report earnings today after the close of trading. The processor and chip giant has Thomson Reuters estimates of $0.08 EPS on $7.27 billion ... Read Full Story »
CSX Corp. (NYSE: CSX) is showing exactly why Warren Buffett has been so pessimistic lately. Q2 2009 earnings were $308 million or $0.78 EPS. This is down from $385 million, ... Read Full Story »
By John Tamny of RealClearMarkets In the Wall Street Journal last week, French president Nicolas Sarkozy teamed up with U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown on a piece meant to reduce ... Read Full Story »
Producer Price and Retail Sales are out for the month of June, and there is some good news and some bad news. Those prices look higher on the surface, with ... Read Full Story »
Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) has just come out with a quarter that will please everyone. Unfortunately, this was telegraphed by recent analyst calls with above-estimate forecasts. The investment banking ... Read Full Story »
The good news for Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) shareholders is that the vote for the Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) buyout is still set for this week. The bad news ... Read Full Story »
Several stocks will make major moves at the open. Noven (NOVN) is up on a buyout. Changes in military healthcare buying may effect Aetna (AET), United Health (UNH), and Humana ... Read Full Story »
DJIA component Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) has come out with earnings slightly ahead of estimates. The medical and consumer products giant posted $1.15 EPS vs $1.11 estimates and revenues ... Read Full Story »
These are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades and positive research calls we have seen from Wall Street early this Tuesday morning: Bank of New York Mellon (BK) Raised ... Read Full Story »
These are some of the cautious analyst calls and analyst downgrades we have seen from Wall Street firms with more than two hours until the market opens this Tuesday morning: ... Read Full Story »
Rumors that China's GDP and demand for oil are increasing continue to take oil prices up, even if they turn out not to be true. The madness over a Chinese ... Read Full Story »