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Futures dropped as much as 2.7% in New York, extending a 6.4% slide last week

Our current model reflects that IBM's sales and operating profit cycles bottomed in the fourth quarter of 2014.

United Technologies reported lower-than-expected fourth quarter revenue on Monday, plus slashed its outlook for the year ahead, citing the stronger dollar.

The weekend headlines suggested that iPhone sales for the past quarter may have been much stronger than expected, but Monday's price action shows that investors are taking such news with a grain of salt. Shares of App...

Looking at the sectors faring worst as of midday Monday, shares of Utilities companies are underperforming other sectors, showing a 0.6% loss. Within that group, NiSource (NYSE: NI) and Entergy (NYSE: ETR) are two large ...

Wall Street scrambled to prepare for a blizzard that is expected to slam into the New York region later Monday, but few traders and analysts said they expected to see substantial disruptions.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, NASDAQ Composite, and S&P 500 are higher in afternoon trading on Monday. Some of the most actively traded stocks include Bank of America (BAC) up 0.5%, Apple (AAPL) higher by 0.5%, Ocwen...

Russia's credit rating was downgraded to junk by Standard & Poor's on Monday, making it the first time it's slipped below investment grade in over ten years.

Bargain hunters are wise to pay careful attention to insider buying, because although there are many various reasons for an insider to sell a stock, presumably the only reason they would use their hard-earned cash to mak...

Qualcomm expects to resolve the licensing issue in China soon, but remains uncertain of the timing. Accordingly, the company believes that the QTL revenue growth many be muted to some extent in fiscal 2015. Additionally,...

Following the lackluster performance in the first quarter, P&G is guiding second quarter organic sales to grow by low to mid-single digits. Core (non-GAAP) EPS is guided to grow by the same range, despite currency headwi...

The company's top-line growth is expected to slow down in Q4 due to tougher year-over-year comparisons; in addition, its GAAP margins are expected to come in lower due to a rise in stock-based compensation expenses. We e...

For the fourth quarter, AT&T CFO John Stephens said that even though postpaid net subscriber additions were expected to improve year-over-year (y-o-y), postpaid churn was likely to be higher in Q4 than the 1.11% reported...

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