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This weekend in Barron's online: a midyear updated on the markets, the likely effects of the Supreme Court's ruling on Obamacare, and the prospects for alternative ETFs and Time Warner. Cover Story "Caution: Sharp Turns Ahead" by Lauren R. Rublin. It is time for Barron's midyear update, which is...

In an effort to fend off multiple lawsuits and prevent its new Hopper feature from being exterminated, Dish Network may enlist in the help of a competitor. Unofficially, of course. But if this Bloomberg Businessweek report is accurate, the satellite provider may be helped by a 2008 federal appeals...

Three of the four major TV networks have sued Dish Network for copyright infringement. There's just one catch -- Dish hasn't copied a thing. Rather, the satellite service provider has gotten into trouble for giving consumers an easy way to skip commercials. From a business standpoint, Dish's (...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) may have posted stellar results, but earnings season rolls on. Here is a quick day-by-day rundown of what analysts are expecting from some of this week's most prominent earnings reports. Monday Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE: APC) and Watson...

Analysts expect to see double-digit per-share earnings growth from Agilent Technologies (NYSE: A), Apache (NYSE: APA), CBS (NYSE: CBS), Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA), DirecTV (NASDAQ: DTV) and Marriot International (NYSE: MAR) when they report quarterly results this week. Other prominent reports on the...

Here's a quick look at some of the top performing dividend stocks, year to date, that have a market cap of $1 billion or less. E-House (China) Holdings (NYSE: EJ) shares are trading about 38% higher year to date despite pulling back more than 4% last week. The real estate company announced in...

Can an unregulated form of currency really do our country any good? Bitcoin has been getting a lot of mainstream attention lately, thanks in part to an episode of The Good Wife, a hit legal drama that airs on CBS (NYSE: CBS). During the episode (entitled, “Bitcoin for Dummies”), the writers...

Halloween and the Day of the Dead arrive this week. If analysts' forecasts are correct, there are only a few earnings reports that may scare investors. For instance, Alpha Natural Resources (NYSE: ANR) earnings are predicted to have fallen 93.1% year over year to $0.58 per share. Allstate (NYSE:...

Unless movie studios cave, we should stop getting our hopes up for an imminent release. The tech world has been running wild with a cornucopia of stories surrounding Apple's all but confirmed television set. From a la carte cable services and environmentally-efficient data centers to my own list...

After a mountain of speculation, the Wall Street Journal is providing us with MORE speculation! Last March, word started to spread that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) was looking for Hollywood talent to bring fresh and original (and presumably scripted) content to YouTube. The news quickly died down after...

It looks like casinos may have finally met their match. When users log into Facebook each day, they don't think that they are entering a gambling arena. When they jump into FarmVille, they don't see it as a virtual slot machine. But ask Jeff Tseng, the co-founder and CEO of user analytics firm...

Quarterly reports of note scheduled for this week include those from Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE: ADM), General Motors (NYSE: GM), MasterCard (NYSE: MA), Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), all of which are expected to post earnings growth, as well as Pfizer (NYSE: PFE)...

Morgan Stanley, which raised its PT on shares of CBS (NYSE: CBS), is providing some color on the stock. “We reiterate our OW rating and raise our Price Target to $33,” Morgan Stanley writes. “CBS continues to benefit from company-specific growth drivers beyond advertising (structural cost...