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This weekend in Barron's online: the world's most respected companies, a special report on what is next for the markets, and the prospects for Kansas City Southern and the Dole Food buyout. Cover Story "World's Most Respected Companies" by Vito J. Racanelli. After topping Barron's annual...

This weekend in Barron's online: the looming credit crisis in the People's Republic, a special report on retirement and the prospects for Revlon, Diebold and Con-way. Cover Story "Where Will It End?" by Jonathan R. Laing. Skeptics have long insisted that economic numbers out of China paint too...

This was a week of reversals. A week of acquisitions. And most of all a week where Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) and other major players were determined to surprise people -- or at the very least get their attention. Yahoo (NASDAQ:...

It’s Friday—a perfect day to cover quadruple witching, the fed, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), and the epic drop in the world markets this week. But, if you’re tired of the glut of stories on those topics this week, maybe this shocking story will make for an adequate respite from what...

Quarterly reports from FedEx (NYSE: FDX), Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) and Kroger (NYSE: KR) will be among the highlights on the earnings front this week. Here is a quick look at what analysts are expecting from these and some of the week's other, most prominent earnings reports. See also: Weekly...

Things will be quiet on the earnings front again this week, with H&R Block and PVH the only S&P 500 members on the schedule. Here is a quick look at the expectations for those results, as well as from Navistar, Lululemon Athletica, Smithfield Foods and some of the week's other most...

The (largely ceremonial) budget passed by the U.S. Senate Saturday included an amendment giving states more authority to collect sales taxes on Internet purchases. The sales tax amendment, according to Hispanic Business, was really designed to test support for the "Marketplace Fairness Act," a...

This weekend in Barron's online: the annual list of the best chief executives in the world, and the prospects for Darden Restaurants, Sarepta Therapeutics and Seacor Holdings. Cover Story "World's Best CEOs" by Andrew Bary. Barron's ninth annual list of the 30 best chief executives in the...

In a report this past week, analysts at the Merrill Lynch unit of Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) offered list of potential large cap leveraged buyout candidates. All the companies that made their list have healthy cash flow, smart valuations and low corporate debt. Here is a quick look at four of...

Shares of Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) slumped after the close Wednesday as the company reported worse than expected earnings. Oracle reported Non-GAAP EPS of $0.65 which just slightly missed analyst estimates of $0.66 but revenue came up short of estimates by more than 4 percent. Oracle is generally...

It used to be a foregone conclusion that when Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) reported it would blow earnings out of the water but over the past couple of years, that reputation has gone the way of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). Still, investors count this as one of those announcements that serves as a proxy for...

Here is a quick look at what analysts expect to see from FedEx (NYSE: FDX), Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), Nike (NYSE: NKE) and some of the other most prominent quarterly reports scheduled for this week. FedEx Third-quarter fiscal 2013 earnings from this ostensible economic bellwether are expected to...

Analysts are looking for solid top and bottom line performance when Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) reports earnings after the market closes on Thursday. The maker of customer management systems using the SaaS model (software-as-a-service) and cloud based technology has become a bellwether stock in the...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), once thought of as the sturdiest and most reliable manufacturer in the PC industry, has been attacked by Chinese hackers. According to a Reuters exclusive, the hackers also targeted Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) but were unsuccessful in their attempts to steal data from Apple. They...

Insiders may sell shares for any number of reasons, but there is really only one reason insiders buy shares of a company -- they believe the stock price will move higher and they want to profit from it. Pullbacks and sell-offs provide a perfect opportunity for investors who have faith in a company...