Alcoa, Intel and JPMorgan Chase will kick off a new earnings season this week when they report their results for the fourth quarter of 2010. Here’s what analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters expect, followed by a glance at what’…
This week was all about jobs reports, and after December’s employment numbers fell short of expectations, stocks ended the first week of trading in 2011 on a down note. Kenny Polcari, managing director at ICAP Corporates explai…
Motorola took the wraps off its new Honeycomb-based tablet, the Xoom, yesterday afternoon at its press conference. Just a few hours later, we had the handsome slate in our greedy paws. When the Xoom lands later this year, it will be pushing the just-an…
Sears Holdings and Urban Outfitters are apparently both looking to buy J. Crew Group. The two are weighing making rival bids for the clothing retailer. This could create a challenge to TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners’ …
Wall Street started the new year with a robust jump, helped by encouraging corporate and economic news that pushed the broad market to a 28-month high. The S&P 500 has now reclaimed nearly 90% of its losses from the bear-market…