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This weekend's Barron's cover story looks at why the buyback boom is bullish for investors. Other featured articles offer a dozen elite dividend picks and ask whether a robot can build the perfect portfolio. Also, the prospects for a supermarket operator, a networking specialist...

This weekend's Barron's shows why one key analyst has a contrarian view on the direction that health care costs are headed. Other featured articles examine the prospects for pharmaceutical company facing new competition and an apparel retailer with a brand that is on a roll. Also...

More than a third of the Dow Jones Industrial Average components will post their latest quarterly results this week. Overall, Wall Street expectations are mixed for this group. Analyst expectations are perhaps highest for two leading supermajor oil companies. The earnings crunch continues this...

Astec Analytics is a provider of timely and accurate intra-day short-selling data and information, which helps investors better understand changes in investor sentiment. This week's report includes a few of the same companies that were highlighted in the prior report along with new entrants. Top...

More than a third of the Dow components are expected to report earnings this week. Only a health care giant and an oil supermajor are expected to show solid growth on both the top and bottom lines. Both have beat earnings expectations in recent quarters. We are in the heart of the fourth-quarter...

Why is Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) the only oil firm that doesn't write down the value of its assets? According to the Wall Street Journal, this is the exact same question that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is asking. The Journal, citing "people familiar with the matter,"...

Three petroleum giants are on deck to share their latest earnings results this week. Consensus forecasts indicate that analysts' expectations for all three are low. Net losses are predicted for many others in the oil patch as well. Among the many earnings reports due this week, highlights will...

Three Internet giants are on deck to share their latest earnings results this week. Analysts are looking for strong earnings growth from Google-parent Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) and LinkedIn Corp (NYSE: LNKD). Expectations for Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) are considerably more...

Even though the S&P 500 is flat for the year, most investors are just happy that the market isn't correcting vigorously after a six-year bull run. However, TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. (NYSE: AMTD) CEO Fredric Tomczyk says he wouldn't be surprised if a correction starts now. Tomczyk...

This weekend in Barron's online: investing in oil in a tough energy market, a blueprint for rescuing kids from a broken American public school system, as well as the prospects for Exxon and other big oil stocks, Dollar General, Credit Suisse, TowneBank and more. Cover Story "Oil: Slick Investing in...

It is clear that the mixed earnings results seen so far have contributed to the volatility in the markets throughout January. While many of the market movers have already shared their most recent quarterly results, there are plenty more on tap as February gets started. Among the most...

TJM Investments Managing Director Tim Anderson says the only oil stocks that are secure right now are big international ones. Names like Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM), Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX), ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) and even BP plc (ADR) (NYSE: BP), which has the most exposure...