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Tech reporting season has kicked in, with several high-profile companies reporting this week. Semiconductor and semi equipment companies are expected to report a 30% year-over-year drop in earnings this quarter, according to estimates compiled by Factset. Chip giant Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC...

This week, nearly 15 percent of the components in the ISE-Revere Natural Gas Index report earnings while 24 percent of the S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production Select Industry Index does the same thing. After this week,energy earnings season is all but over, prompting investors to...

Some of the big-name technology companies, including Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), have already delivered quarterly earnings, but the high-flying sector is set to experience an earnings avalanche during the week starting April 29. What Happened Next week, nearly 47 percent of the...

Declining costs for alternative energy coupled with countries and states pushing for increased use of clean energy sources are among the factors weighing on the global coal industry. The VanEck Vectors Coal ETF (NYSE: KOL) is up nearly 9 percent year-to-date, indicating some investors still have...

Corporate profit expectations for the first quarter are muted, with most analysts bracing for S&P 500 profits to decline for the first time since the second quarter of 2016. Semiconductor and semiconductor equipment makers could see their profit drop 23 percent year-over-year, according to...

The first-quarter reporting season is imminent, and a lot of the debate centers around whether corporate profit growth — which has been a key pillar of economic growth — will continue to catch fire.  S&P 500 earnings have increased every quarter since the second quarter of...

The iShares MSCI South Africa ETF (NYSE: EZA), the largest exchange traded fund dedicated to stocks in Africa's largest economy, is up about 6 percent this year. On the surface, that sounds pretty good, but upon further examination, EZA looks weak and vulnerable to some downside. What Happened...

The partial government shutdown spanning five weeks between Dec. 22 and Jan. 25 impaired the economy, with the Congressional Budget Office estimating that fourth-quarter GDP will be reduced by $3 billion. The residual impact could hit Q1 GDP by $8 billion, according to CBO estimates...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) shocked the Street with a negative pre-announcement that triggered a sharp move to the downside. Given that corproate profits were a driving force behind the economic expansion seen after the Great Recession, the reaction shouldn't have come as a surprise....

The holiday shopping season kicked off with Black Friday, which raked in record online sales of $6.22 billion, up 23.6 percent year-over-year, according to Adobe Analytics data.  This should bode well for Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), which has bulldozed its way to e-commerce dominance...

Corporate earnings have been on a roll: S&P 500 earnings are set to grow 19.2 percent year-over-year in the third quarter, marking the third-highest quarterly earnings growth since the first quarter of 2011, according to the weekly Earnings Insight report by Factset.  Given the...

After ending 2017 with a 19.4-percent gain, the S&P 500 Index is up about 6.9 percent year-to-date through Aug. 23, popping in and out of the record territory quiet often. The bull market that began in March 2009, marking a recovery from the post-financial crisis slump in 2008, now has the...

As companies continue to realize the effects of corporate tax cuts, an impressive phenomenon persists. As of last week, when 267 constituents of the S&P 500 had reported earnings, 79.4 percent had beaten analyst estimates — far beyond the 64-percent long-term average and the 75-percent...

The big bank earnings parade started Friday and continued into today's session, and the Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE: XLF) has shown muted reaction. Expectations before the earnings season were upbeat, with Factset estimating that the financial sector could report the fourth-...

Perhaps not surprisingly, data indicate the sector analysts' are most bullish on is technology. Over the past year, the Technology Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLK) and the tech-heavy PowerShares QQQ (NASDAQ: QQQ) are up 24 percent and 22.6 percent, respectively, while the S&P 500 is higher by...