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Now that Congress and the White House have failed to reach a deal to avoid the federal budget sequester, and with the jobs report coming out on Friday, the attention this week is likely to be elsewhere, rather than on earnings, which have slowed to dribble. A few lingering retail earnings reports...

UPDATE: Tiffany's reported earnings just below expectations, but shares rallied. Things will be pretty quiet on the earnings front this week leading into the Labor Day holiday, and as the calendar month winds down. Among the highest profile quarterly reports on the schedule are those from Tiffany...

Most of the S&P 500 have already posted their fourth-quarter results. But a few of them are scheduled to report fiscal quarterly results this week. These include Altera, Brown-Forman, H&R Block and Pall Corp. Also, earnings reports from retailers continue to roll out this week, as they have...

Things will be fairly quiet on the earnings front this this week, with only a few S&P 500 components scheduled to post quarterly results: Brown-Forman (NYSE: BF-B), Campbell Soup (NYSE: CPB) and Joy Global (NASDAQ: JOYG) are expected to report earnings growth, while SAIC's (NYSE: SAI) earnings...

Deutsche Bank is out with its report today on Ciena (NASDAQ: CIEN), maintaining Buy. In a note to clients, Deutsche Bank writes, "The stock remains a 'show me' story, with current levels yet to fully price-in meaningful (albeit graduated) improvements in mix, margins, and revenue growth profile,...

Jefferies is out with its report today on Ciena (NASDAQ: CIEN), maintaining Underperform. In a note to clients, Jefferies writes, "Ciena held its Analyst Day in New York. We remain concerned that Ciena will be unable to generate the attractive revenue growth and operating margins that many...

Citi is out with its report today on Ciena (NASDAQ: CIEN), reiterating Buy. In a note to clients, Citi writes, "Ciena remains our top pick in optical through the cycle. We continue to believe that carrier spending is improving, with optical set to benefit. At the stock level, Ciena's product...

In morning trading, Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) and Jones Group (NYSE: JNY) fell to new 52-week lows of $15.26 and $9.97 per share, respectively. Cisco has slumped on disappointing quarterly results from Ciena (NASDAQ: CIEN). Cisco has a market cap of $84.2 billion and is a leading producer and...

In its FQ2'11 preview of Ciena (NASDAQ: CIEN), J.P. Morgan said that it believes that US optical spending remains strong. “However, European telecoms trends began to show signs of weakness in Q1, and CIEN now has material exposure there through its Nortel assets,” J.P. Morgan writes. “We believe...

S&P 500 components scheduled to report quarterly results this week include J.M. Smucker (NYSE: SJM), National Semiconductor (NYSE: NSM) and Pall Corp. (NYSE: PLL). While analysts on average are expecting strong earnings growth from Pall, the consensus forecast for Smucker is earnings about the...