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This past week, Credit Suisse added Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE: APC), BankUnited (NYSE: BKU), Dow Chemical (NYSE: DOW) and Superior Energy Services (NYSE: SPN) to its Top Picks list. Like other financial services firms, Credit Suisse has a list of stocks in which its analysts have complete faith....

Halliburton (NYSE: HAL), the world's second largest oil field services firm and the world's largest provider of pressure pumping services used for fracking shale gas and oil wells, is scheduled to report its fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 results Tuesday, January 21, before the markets open....

As markets completed its final trading day of 2013, investors and traders can look back at what turned out to be a spectacular year for equities. U.S. stocks had its best year in over a decade fueled by an improving economy and the Fed's easy money policies. Commodities on the other hand have...

A decline in oil output since 2004 has prompted recent energy reforms in Mexico. Analysts at Merrill Lynch feel Baker Hughes (NYSE: BHI), Ensco (NYSE: ESV), National Oilwell Varco (NYSE: NOV) and Schlumberger (NYSE: SLB) are among the big oil services companies positioned to benefit from...

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...

In the wake of the first-quarter earnings season, analysts at Sterne Agee have issued a research report on the energy and industrials sectors. Their energy stock recommendations include CONSOL Energy (NYSE: CNX), Superior Energy Services (NYSE: SPN) and Whiting Petroleum (NYSE: WLL). Below is a...

Halliburton (NYSE: HAL), the world's second largest oil field services firm and the world's largest provider of pressure pumping services used for fracking shale gas and oil wells, is scheduled to report its first-quarter 2013 results Monday, April 22, before the markets open. Investors will be...

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,...

The analysts at Jefferies (NYSE: JEF) have updated their Global Conviction List. Halliburton (NYSE: HAL), Ingersoll-Rand (NYSE: IR), JDS Uniphase (NASDAQ: JDSU) and TRW Automotive Holdings (NYSE: TRW) have been added to the list. The analysts' focus for its most recent review of the list was on...

A new research report from UBS (NYSE: UBS) features a list of stocks that the analysts not only recommending buying, but which they feel have at least 25 percent potential upside from current levels, despite the markets being near all-time highs. Three energy-related stocks made the list: Arch...

A new research report from UBS featured an "elite eight" momentum stocks that, despite outperforming the markets, the analyst believes still have plenty of room to run in the near term. Three oil and gas stocks made the list: Halliburton (NYSE: HAL), Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX) and Tesoro (NYSE: TSO...

Last Friday, Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) started off the most recent round of quarterly reports from the big U.S. banks by posting a record profit for the quarter. The company also reported that the number of mortgage loans and lending margins declined from the previous quarter. Results from many more...

Early Wednesday, Barclays (NYSE: BCS) analysts commented on oil service stocks in a note: We remain bullish on the oil-services, equipment and drilling companies and expect the group to significantly outpeform the broader equity market over the next several years. The analyst has Overweight...

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...

The short interest data is out from the August 15 settlement date showing mixed results for the oil and gas sector. Generally, these stocks are not heavily shorted -- who really thinks the price of oil will collapse any time soon? Shares sold short in BP (NYSE: BP), Chevron (NYSE: CVX) and...