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Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ: GMCR), still the king of K-Cup coffee, is scheduled to report its first-quarter fiscal 2013 results Wednesday, February 6, after the markets close. The company turned things around in the fourth quarter after previous weak ones, and investors will be...

The Baltimore Ravens won the Super Bowl Sunday night. But the real showdown—the showdown that all of the non-football fans were watching, was the battle of the ads. It’s still early, but here’s what we know so far. Showing the ad in advance is a ticket to popularity. Of the top 10 most watched...

Sure, the Super Bowl is the marquis sporting event of the year, but it may have an effect on your portfolio too. It’s all about the commercials. A study by University at Buffalo School of Management and Cornell University found that when a company produced an ad that the public liked, its stock...

When Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) decided to create Coke Freestyle, it aimed to produce the ultimate cola machine. The company envisioned a future where consumers could use one fountain to obtain more than one hundred different flavors. That vision became a reality in 2009 when Coca-Cola began to ship the...

Bank of America/Merrill Lynch's "2013 Food and Beverage Year Ahead" report came out this past week. The analyst was looking for stocks of well-positioned companies with products that are protected from consumer weakness or those with strong franchises in developing markets. Its top turnaround...

Bank of America/Merrill Lynch's "2013 Food and Beverage Year Ahead" report came out this week. The analyst was looking for stocks of well-positioned companies with products that are protected from consumer weakness or those with strong franchises in developing markets. Its top developing markets...

Latin American Markets were largely up on Thursday, due in part to hopes that a debt deal would be reached in the United States to avoid the fiscal cliff. Here are four Latin America based stocks traded on U.S. exchanges that have consensus buy recommendations from analysts. Futhermore, they have...

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ: GMCR), which recently named a new CEO, is scheduled to report its fourth-quarter and full fiscal 2012 results Tuesday, November 27, after the markets close. Investors will be hoping that new partnerships and licensing deals with the likes of Costco (NASDAQ:...

The earnings crunch gets underway this week, with big names in the financial, technology, consumer goods and other sectors on tap to share their most recent quarterly results. Among those expected to post the biggest year-over-year gains in earnings are Abbott Labs (NYSE: ABT), BlackRock (NYSE: BLK...

Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) GEICO unit posted a 25 percent gain on Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), as it sold its stake less than a year after making the investment. This is notable as it runs contrary to the buy-and-hold strategy famously championed by its Chairman Warren Buffett....

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) has spent a great deal of time promoting the fact that it has more users than any other social network. Up until now, no one knew how many of those users were actually real. The good news is that Facebook's own estimates, which come from the company's 10-Q, are relatively...

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) announced its second-quarter earnings today, reporting an EPS of $0.12, in-line with the $0.12 estimate. Revenues were $1.18 billion versus $1.15 billion, beating estimates by 2.6 percent. Facebook's positive (anticipated) results come at a time when the company is...

This weekend in Barron's online: the booming vegetable and fruit juice market, as well as a return to the gold standard, the prospects for Calpine, Canon and John Bean Technologies, and more. Cover Story "Drink Up!" by Robin Goldwyn Blumenthal. The consumption of super-premium vegetable juices in...