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Three Internet giants are on deck to share their latest earnings results this week. Analysts are looking for strong earnings growth from Google-parent Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) and LinkedIn Corp (NYSE: LNKD). Expectations for Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) are considerably more...

Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE: ADM) said Monday it would acquire privately held Swiss company Wild Flavors for $3.13 billion, the biggest acquisition yet for the agribusiness giant. Wild Flavors, founded in 1931, produces natural-based flavors and “flavor systems” that give food...

The earnings crunch continues this week. Among the highlights will be scheduled quarterly reports from Exxon Mobil and Chevron, from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck, from Time Warner and Viacom, and also from Twitter. Early Thursday, Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) is expected to say that it had earnings...

January, with its five percent correction, is behind us, and earnings continue to roll out this week, whether or not the groundhog saw his shadow. Highlights will include quarterly results from General Motors (NYSE: GM), Merck (NYSE: MRK), Philip Morris (NYSE: PM) and Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS),...

The earnings crunch rolls on. This week's highlights include quarterly reports from the two biggest companies by market capitalization, Apple and Exxon Mobil, which are expect to post declining earnings. Per-share earnings from General Motors are expected to be the same as a year ago, and...

The earnings season is beginning to wind down, and much of the focus this week will turn to central bank meetings and economic data from China and the United States. But, there are still plenty of earnings reports on the schedule this week, including those from Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS), Time...

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...

Futures Lower Ahead of GDP U.S. equity futures traded lower in early pre-market trade ahead of the key U.S. first quarter GDP report due out at 8:30 am eastern. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg are expecting a growth rate of 3.1 percent in the first quarter with the range of estimates between 2.3-...

With winter snow still flying in the nation’s heartland, farmers are hard at work repairing corn planters, upgrading and modifying, even adding electronics -- anything that will give them an edge as they try to recover from the drought of 2012. Plans are already in place to plant the most corn...

The S&P ended last week above 1,500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 14,000. Some strong earnings reports could push the markets higher, and there are plenty of quarterly reports on the schedule this week. Analysts by and large expect to see year-over-year earnings per share (EPS)...

Here is a quick look at three international stocks -- Gruma SAB (NYSE: GMK), SodaStream International (NASDAQ: SODA) and Lululemon Athletica (NASDAQ: LULU) -- that have double-digit returns on equity and double-digit long-range earnings per share (EPS) growth forecasts. Each is up more than 15%...

Latin American Markets were largely up on Thursday, due in part to hopes that a debt deal would be reached in the United States to avoid the fiscal cliff. Here are four Latin America based stocks traded on U.S. exchanges that have consensus buy recommendations from analysts. Futhermore, they have...

Recent earnings disappointments from tech giants like Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), as well as industrials such as Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) and DuPont (NYSE: DD), have taken their toll. The S&P 500 is down about three percent in the past three weeks....

Most of the companies that compose the S&P 500 have reported second-quarter results already. According to Bloomberg, some 72 percent of S&P 500 companies that have reported quarterly results so far have exceeded analysts' estimates. But the earnings season is not over quite yet. Among the...