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Ahead of the Tape: AT&T hasn't created much shareholder value and is showing some financial strains.

Sarao helped send the Dow Jones Industrial Average on the wild, 1,000-point ride that the world came to know as the flash crash

Dr Pepper Snapple reports its first-quarter earnings on Thursday, April 23, 2015, and the consensus earnings per share estimate is 76 cents per share.The consensus estimate hasn't changed over the past month, but it's do...

Despite an expected dip in profit, analysts are generally optimistic about E*Trade Financial as it prepares to reports its first-quarter earnings on Thursday, April 23, 2015. The consensus earnings per share estimate is ...

Analysts are looking for decreased profit for Caterpillar when the company reports its results for the first quarter on Thursday, April 23, 2015. Caterpillar reported profit of $1.61 a year ago, but the consensus estimat...

Analysts expect higher profit for Dunkin' Brands when the company reports its first quarter results on Thursday, April 23, 2015. The consensus estimate is calling for profit of 36 cents a share, reflecting a rise from 33...

A group of investors has secured the winning bid to buy the NBA's Atlanta Hawks for a sale price somewhere between $700 million and $1 billion, according to media reports Wednesday. Billionaire Tony Ressler, co-founder o...

U.S. stocks closed sharply higher Wednesday, as the Nasdaq composite came within 13 points of its all-time closing high of 5,048.62, last seen during the dotcom bubble in 2000. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average...

As eBay and PayPal look to move in separate directions, both companies prepared for their corporate divorce by organizing their boards and clearly defining their future business relationships. Until that split happens, h...

In my previous article, I took the chance and reflected upon what I learned, and how my thoughts have changed since I wrote the twoIBM (IBM) articles during 2014. I wrote the following provocative statement towards the ...

Foreign investors recast portfolios on dismal earnings outlook, disagreement over tax issues with government

This week marks the pinnacle earnings season for the Standard & Poor's 500, as more than 150 companies are scheduled to report. Social networking company Facebook Inc. reports quarterly results after the closing bell Wed...

Amid the stiff competition in the U.S. restaurant industry for the breakfast and coffee market share, Dunkin' Brands is one of the few food and beverage chains to report an increase in customer traffic and transactions i...

We are expecting a robust increase in the company's revenues on account of a steady rise in its mobile and desktop ad monetization, as well as growth in number of active users. However, rapidly increasing sales and marke...

Quarterly revenues fell by about 20% year-over-year to $4.59 billion, while adjusted net losses stood at about $32 million, versus a profit of about $369 million during the same period a year ago. While oilfield services...

While the management had forecast net sales growth to range between 6% and 16% during Q1 2015, we expect the final results to fall around the upper-end of this guidance range. According to some early indicators, Amazon's...

Although the company managed to improve its top line as well as bottom line in a highly competitive environment, its subscriber gains in the quarter were not so impressive. The largest wireless carrier in the U.S. added ...

For Citizens Financial's Bruce Van Saun, life after RBS gives way to a plan for steady, stable growth.

Nielsen (NLSN) approved an increase in the company's quarterly cash dividend of 12% to $0.28 per common share, payable on June 18, 2015 to shareholders of record on June 4, 2015.

If you believe that markets are efficient, i.e., that markets’ prices have incorporated ALL information that could impact the price of a security, then you likely should be a passive index investor. Passive investing i...

The iShares MSCI Global Metals & Mining Producers ETF (PICK) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Wednesday, with over 495,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 50,000. Shares of PI...

In trading on Wednesday, the SPDR S&P China ETF (GXC) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 1.9% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Soufun Holdings (SFUN), up about 6.8% and ...