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First-quarter results from General Motors (NYSE: GM) will be one of the highlights on the earnings front this week. Analysts anticipate that the carmaker will say Thursday its revenue slipped about three percent from a year ago to $36.60 billion, but that earnings fell from $0.93 per share a year...

U.S. markets are closed on Monday for the Presidents' Day holiday, and many of the S&P 500 have already posted results for the most recent quarter. But PC makers Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) step into the earnings spotlight this week. Also, the world's largest retailer...

Express Scripts (NASDAQ: ESRX), which resumed its relationship with Walgreen (NYSE: WAG) in September, is scheduled to report its third-quarter 2012 results Monday, November fifth, after the closing bell. Among other things, investors will be looking to see how the company's acquisition of Medco...

The focus this week naturally will be on the presidential election and the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. But on the earnings front, it is time for retailers to begin stepping into the spotlight. Here is a peak at what analysts expect to see from retailers for the period leading up to the holiday...

The short interest in biotech and emerging pharmaceutical companies was mixed in the first two weeks of October. Shares sold short in Alexion Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ALXN), Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN), Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG), Dendreon (NASDAQ: DNDN), Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN), Onyx Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ...

An article in this week's Barron's suggests that analysts will lower their 2013 earnings estimates in coming weeks. Earnings for the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index are projected to rise 13% next year, but there is little evidence to support such acceleration. For the recently ended third...

The parade of earnings from major retailers begins this week with quarterly reports due from Kohl's (NYSE: KSS), Macy's (NYSE: M) and Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN). Analysts expect to see year-over-year revenue growth from all three, but lower per-share earnings from Kohl's. Many more retailers are...

Walgreen (NYSE: WAG) is scheduled to report fiscal first-quarter 2012 results tomorrow, December 21, before the opening bell. Investors will be looking for anything that might boost the stock's sagging share price, like perhaps an easing of tensions between Walgreen and Express Scripts (NASDAQ:...

iShares Dow Jones US Healthcare Provider (NYSE: IHF) is up more than 19% year to date. The fund invests at least 90% of its assets in securities of the underlying index, which measures the performance of the health care providers sector of the U.S. equity market. Top holdings include UnitedHealth...

Bank of America reiterated its Buy rating on Express Scripts (NASDAQ: ESRX). At the same time, Bank of America decided to leave its price target on the company's stock unchanged at $67. On Thursday, Express Scripts closed the day at $54.06.