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More than a third of the Dow Jones Industrials are on deck to report quarterly results this week. Wall Street expectations are perhaps highest for a chemicals giant and a leading credit services company. However, just one of these two is expected to show growth on the top line. The third-quarter...

More than a third of the Dow Jones Industrials are on deck to report quarterly results this week. Wall Street expectations are particularly low for two supermajor oil companies. Just one of these two companies beat earnings estimates in the previous quarter. The third-quarter earnings reporting...

Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE)'s Chantix is a prescription medication that helps adults 18 years and older quit smoking. The drug has been linked with reports of mental health problems, risk of suicide, depression and death in users, which prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue...

Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) isn't showing any signs of slowing down with its M&A plans. Just days after announcing it will acquire Medivation Inc (NASDAQ: MDVN) for $14 billion, Pfizer said on Wednesday it will pay $1.5 billion to acquire AstraZeneca plc (ADR) (NYSE: AZN)'s late-stage small...

Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE)'s acquisition of Medivation Inc (NASDAQ: MDVN) may have come as a surprise to some, but Pfizer has a long standing history of pursuing large scale M&A deals. With 2016 more than half over, Pfizer has already dished out $5.2 billion to acquire Anacor and $14 billion this...

Among the earnings highlights for the week will be the reports from two major pharmaceutical companies. Wall Street analysts are looking for earnings growth from only one of them. Both companies have exceeded earnings estimates in recent quarters. The earnings season rolls on even as...

Two of the so-called FANG stocks offered up disappointing quarterly results last week. The other two FANG stocks are on deck to share their latest results this week. Wall Street analysts continue to look for strong earnings growth from both of them. The so-called FANG stocks were the momentum...

Upcoming earnings highlights include the latest results from two automaker giants. Wall Street analysts are looking for strong earnings growth from both of them. However, estimates have been slipping for one and rising for the other. Expectations were already high for the latest earnings from...

Featured stories this weekend in Barron's ponder the prospects for a Detroit automaker, a semiconductor giant and the inventor of Bubble Wrap. This issue also has a look at a jet propulsion company and a pair of small cap banks. Other articles discuss the state of the U.S. auto industry, the top...

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...