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IBM is expected to report third-quarter earnings after the close on Monday. Note that the company uses buybacks and cost cuts to keep earnings high.
Monday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include Carrizo Oil & Gas, Nike, Oracle, Pure Storage, Regions Financial and Seagate Technology.
These are the five big oil and gas analyst picks that stood out the most in last week's calls for big companies with active share volume.
While there were many winners, last week brought a lot of truly bad news or bad reactions for some of the large cap stocks in the market.
The University of Michigan's latest report on consumer sentiment offers a preliminary view for October, and it actually came with a significant upside surprise.
Weak exports continue to plague industries in America, and a weak oil sector only means ever more weakness to be expected from the U.S. energy sector, which had been such a bright spot.
The markets may go up and down with valuations, but the one constant that every single person on the planet cannot avoid is the need for water each and every day.
Friday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include Blackstone, Infloblox, Dynegy, IBM, Sprint, Spirit Airlines and Verizon Communications.
It is hard on the surface to consider that a U.S. budget deficit of nearly $439 billion for the U.S. government's fiscal year 2016 is good news.
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All in all, the Labor Department data offers signs of hope for the October employment report that will be out at the start of November. The outside data is signaling something else.
The growth story in the United States continues to fade. That is the message from the latest regional Federal Reserve manufacturing reports.
September's Consumer Price Index (CPI) was weak enough that consumers can consider it deflationary.
Thursday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include EMC, Facebook, 58.com, HD Supply, Netflix, TripAdvisor and Wal-Mart.
The stock market just found a new foe for earnings season. That would be Wal-Mart.
Wednesday brought up a U.S. Census Bureau report on business inventories for the month of August.
Wal-Mart saw its shares tank on Wednesday due to disappointing guidance at the investor day presentation.