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Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), which is looking for a boost this holiday shopping season from the launch of the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One, is scheduled to report its fiscal third-quarter results Tuesday, November 19, before the markets open. The company is in a much better place that it was a year ago...

Judging by the share price, one would think Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) had turned itself around, though analysts' expectations for the most recent quarter are still very modest. Best Buy has been hitting new highs since August, and it looks like short sellers decided to get out of the way. Other...

Among the social media companies based in the United States, eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), Pandora Media (NYSE: P) and Yelp (NYSE: YELP) saw significant swings in short interest between the October 15 and October 31 settlement dates. The number of shares sold short in Angie's List (NASDAQ: ANGI), Facebook...

Among the social media companies based in the United States, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) and Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) saw significant swings in short interest between the September 30 and October 15 settlement dates. The number of shares sold short in Angie's List (NASDAQ: ANGI),...

Lots of quarterly reports are on deck this week, to go along with all the delayed economic data expected to be released. Analysts and investors should have plenty to mull over. Earnings highlights will include reports from AT&T, McDonald's, Microsoft and Netflix, which are all expected to post...

Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), which just announced a deal with Sony (NYSE: SNE) to produce more original programming, is scheduled to report its third-quarter 2013 results Monday, October 21, after the end of the trading session. Investors will be looking for continued strong subscriber growth and...

This weekend in Barron's online: the fall Big Money poll results, as well as the prospects for AT&T, Outerwall, Questcor Pharmaceuticals and more. Cover Story "Raking In Returns" by Jack Willoughby. American money managers expect stocks to rise seven percent between now and the middle of...

The back-to-school shopping season was underwhelming, and economic confidence is plummeting ahead of the holiday shopping season. Among troubled retailers, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) and OfficeMax (NYSE: OMX) saw significant upswings in the number of their shares sold...

This weekend in Barron's online: Barron's yearly ranking of the best and worst states, as well as the prospects for Kulicke & Soffa, Coeur Mining, Spirit Realty, Sears and more. Cover Story "Munis on the Mend" by Andrew Bary. While there still may be problems in the municipal-bond market,...

This weekend in Barron's online: Barron's Mutual Fund Quarterly, as well as the prospects for Amazon.com, Penn National Gaming, Latam Airlines, PICO Holdings and more. Cover Story "How to Navigate the Bond Market" by Michael Aneiro. Given that interest rates will rise, Barron's asks in this...

It should be no surprise that when the analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald released their recommendations for stocks to buy to take advantage of the changing landscape in technology, it included such giants as Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Yahoo! (NASDAQ:...

Overall, the short interest moves in troubled retail companies were mixed again during the latter weeks of August. However, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) and Rite Aid (NYSE: RAD) saw upswings of more than 30 percent in the number of their shares sold short. The short interest in Avon Products (...

Despite reports like the one from Jessica Lessin on Friday indicating Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) planned to offer a free smartphone this year, Amazon said the rumors were not true according to Gizmodo. The company said it has no plans to launch a phone. Furthermore, if it ever does offer a phone...

In a story first reported by Nikkei and updated recently by Le Monde, Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) and U.S. genome sequencing equipment maker Illumina Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) plan to launch a human genome analysis project in October. The project will involve the study and analysis of genetic material...

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) customers who purchased an e-book between April 1, 2010 and May 21, 2012 could receive a refund for nearly $4. This is a result of the legal action that was taken against Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and five book publishers who were accused of colluding to raise prices. Apple has...