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This weekend in Barron's online: the annual listing of the top 30 corporate chiefs, a look at Deere, International Game Technology and Alexion Pharmaceuticals, as well as growth in Latin American airlines. Cover Story “World's Best CEOs” by Andrew Bary. Barron's offers up its annual listing of...

This week's prominent quarterly reports include those from FedEx, Oracle and Nike, which analysts expect to post year-over-year earnings growth. Discover Financial and Gamestop are expected to report earnings growth as well, but Tiffany's per-share earnings for the most recent quarter are forecast...

The following exchange traded funds ended the week in the neighborhood of their 52-week highs. The share price of each is more than 20% higher than at the beginning of the year as well. Barclays Long B Leveraged S&P 500 Total Return ETN (NYSE: BXUB) is more than 22% higher than at the...

Here's a quick look at some of the top performing tech stocks in February. These stocks all have a market cap of more than $500 million, and they all pay a dividend too. Advantest (NYSE: ATE) rose more than 33% in the past month but is still down almost 31% from a year ago. This Tokyo-based maker...

India recently decided to open up its equity market to individual foreign investors. The hope is that allowing foreign investors to buy Indian stocks directly would help reverse a year-long decline in Indian stock prices and lead to more foreign investment in the Indian economy. If you're not ready...

Here's a quick look at some of the top performing dividend stocks, year to date, that are listed on the Nasdaq. CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) is almost 26% higher year to date, more than 12% just in the past week. Shares surged after the company posted better-than-expected quarterly results that...

As Christmas and the end of the year rush toward us, here is a quick look at expectations for some of the most prominent quarterly reports scheduled for this week. These include Bed Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ: BBBY), General Mills (NYSE: GIS), Nike (NYSE: NKE), Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) and Walgreen (...

For nearly half a billion, IBM is slated to add a cloud-based analytics company to its portfolio. This news comes after SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) announced its plans to acquire a cloud computing firm of its own, SuccessFactors (NYSE: SFSF), prompting my colleague to write about data centers, which he...

Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) could be on the verge of as many as two acquisitions in the Unstructured Storage infrastructure space. That's according to Global Equities Research, which sent out a quick e-mail update on the stock late last night. “New Project starts on Red Hat continues to remain strong;...

Hyped as the “largest social enterprise industry event on the east coast,” Cloudforce 2011 begins this Wednesday. Are you ready? If not, Benzinga can help you prepare. Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) has amassed an impressive collection of special guests that are slated to attend the event, including...

By Parkin Furia Benzinga Staff Writer Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) is an information technology service provider to various businesses around the globe. It provides solutions for customer relations and management. Currently, the company has a market capital of $15.27 Billion and has more than...

“Oracle has got its cloud strategy right,” says Global Equities Research. “They created their own applications on their own cloud,” Trip Chowdhry wrote in an e-mail update this afternoon. “Not like Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), which created Azure Cloud, but none of their applications, including...

“We think that the fundamentals of Salesforce.com is only going to deteriorate moving forward,” says Global Equities Research. Outspoken analyst Trip Chowdhry sent out an e-mail this morning regarding Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) following a recent keynote at Oracle World with Larry Ellison. “Key...

After last week's lull, things pick up again on the earnings front. Here is a peek at what analysts are expecting from some of this week's most anticipated quarterly reports: AutoZone (NYSE: AZO), Bed Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ: BBBY), Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS), FedEx (NYSE: FDX),...

Not the best news for Oracle, but the company could pick up in the future. According to a brief report by Global Equities Research, the company may be in for some short-term trouble. “Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) 1QFY2012 results may come at the lower end of the guidance as 20% of Oracle business is...