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This weekend's Barron's cover story offers a look at a company set to shake up health care. Other featured articles examine prospects for oil drillers as takeover targets and for dividend growth stocks. Also, a recent health care spin-off and the newest livestreaming titan. "Can CVS...

According to Walt Chancellor at Macquarie Research, a combination of "resilient supply and continuing productivity gains" will provide headwinds to oil drilling demand. The impact: U.S. oil production may not stabilize until mid-2017, Chancellor said. Looking into the near-term...

U.S. stocks declined as geopolitical concerns outweighed an improved economic read on second-quarter growth. Ukraine's President stated that Russian troops had crossed in to Ukraine territory and were fighting alongside Russian supported separatists. Markets initially traded lower on the...

U.S. stocks rose, lifting the Dow to new historical all-time highs of 17,153.80 following a better than expected rise in orders of durable goods. Consumer confidence improved in August, helping market sentiments while investors and traders placed less emphasis on a report that home prices are...

U.S. stocks erased early morning gains and finished lower following reports that Ukrainian artillery forces engaged armored vehicles entering Ukraine from Russia. Narayana Kocherlakota, Minneapolis Fed President, stated that labor strength in its current state appears to be far away from the...

U.S. stocks rallied to start the week on a positive note. Investors are looking for bullish signs that can erase last weeks declines, as the S&P 500 had its largest weekly drop since 2012 and the Volatility Index surged more than 30 percent. Portugal's Central Bank plans to spend 4.9...

U.S. stocks declined as investors demonstrated concerns over recent escalations of violence in Iraq. Crude oil rose as a wave of violence has seen Mosul and Tikrit (two cities key to Iraq's oil industry) fall to insurgent forces. The Senate confirmed former Bank of Israel government...

U.S. stocks finished the week slightly lower as investors gave today's poor housing data a slack, and blame it on the weather. “Investors are willing to cut the market some slack because of the weather; I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the economy heats up as the weather warms up,” Jack...

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The earnings crunch rolls on. Analysts are looking for strong earnings growth in this week's quarterly reports from Apple, Caterpillar, Starbucks and Visa. But ConocoPhillips, Ford and Netflix are among those expected to post significantly lower per-share earnings, compared to the same period of a...