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It’s Monday and as always, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) made headlines over the weekend. The stock is currently at $482.75—well above it’s 50-day moving average of $473.93. The end of the week saw volume drop off as the stock struggled to gain any ground last week. Here are some of the Apple stories...

There are no ads on Instagram. The app doesn’t cost anything. In other words, it does not create revenue for its owner, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB). If Instagram director of business operations, Emily White, is to be believed, all that will change within the next year, according to The Wall Street...

The earnings season ramps up this week, providing plenty of perspective on how the financial and technology sectors fared in the second quarter. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), Citigroup (NYSE: C), Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Intel (NYSE: INTC), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and many...

The new earnings season kicks off this week with the traditional first report from Alcoa (NYSE: AA) on Monday afternoon. The first of the big banks, J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM) and Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), close out the week when they step into the earnings spotlight Friday morning. Analysts predict...

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...

UPDATE: At 7:15 a.m. EST, PepsiCo CEO, Indra Nooyi emailed CNBC stating that the SodaStream rumor is completely untrue, according to the network SodaStream International (NASDAQ: SODA) is feeling like the pretty girl trying to decide which guy to take to prom. On Thursday, Reuters reported that...

This was rough. In fact, it was so rough that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) wrote a weekend blog post to respond to the comparison. When Windows 8 was compared to New Coke, everybody old enough to remember Coca-Cola’s (NYSE: KO) biggest misstep thought the same thing: “Now that’s just mean!” For...

Coke Classic is back. Not the soda - that happened in 1985 - the business model. Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO), according to The Wall Street Journal, is expanding distribution rights for five of its independent bottlers less than three years after cutting a $12.3 billion deal designed to give the...

The earnings crunch is on this week, with first-quarter results due from such iconic blue chips as Coca-Cola, General Electric, Google, Johnson & Johnson, McDonald's and Microsoft. Analysts expect to see year-over-year earnings growth from each of them, but earnings declines from Intel,...

Spring is here and that means Easter bunnies, hidden eggs, flowers blossoming and spring cleaning. It also means that legions of people who didn’t watch one NCAA basketball game all season are about to become college hoops experts. Yes, for a few weeks, basketball takes center stage during the...

This weekend in Barron's online: a profile of Howard Marks, investors return to online brokers, and the prospects for Bed Bath & Beyond, Live Nation Entertainment and Genworth Financial. Cover Story "Master of Disaster" by Jonathan R. Laing. This week's cover story is a profile of Howard...

A new study by the Hudson Institute shows that incorporating more low-calorie items into a restaurant’s menu doesn’t just help address the nation’s growing obesity problem, it also helps grow the restaurant’s bottom line. It’s what Wall Street and healthcare experts like to call a “win-win.”...

Quarterly reports from General Motors (NYSE: GM) and Deere (NYSE: DE) will be among the highlights on the earnings front this week. The consensus forecast for the former calls for fourth-quarter earnings per share (EPS) to be more than 23 percent higher than a year ago to $0.51 per share. The...

Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO), shares of which rose this past week following the Super Bowl and a dividend hike from bottler Coca-Cola Enterprises (NYSE: CCE), is scheduled to report its fourth-quarter and full-year 2012 results Tuesday, February 12, before the markets open. Rising sales in emerging...