Author: Devin Weiss

In one of the quietest trading sessions of the year, markets closed negligibly lower as Germany raised objections about bond purchases by the ECB. With minute losses yesterday, the Dow and S&P 500 still remained close to...

o Shares of Coventry Health Care, Inc. (NYSE:CVH) surged 20.3% after Aetna Inc. (NYSE:AET) said it will acquire the health care provider for $5.7 billion in cash and stock o Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE:LOW) reported...

Sporting goods retailer, Hibbett Sports Inc. (HIBB), reported strong second quarter fiscal 2013 results driven by robust sales performance, an improvement in comparable store sales as well as operational efficiencies....

Tuesday, August 21, 2012 Today’s trading action will likely be not much different from what we saw on Monday when stocks hovered around the starting point and not that far from the highpoint of the year set in April. But...

Earnings Preview: Chico’s Chico’s FAS Inc. (CHS), a leading operator in specialty apparel market, is all set to release its second-quarter 2012 financial results on Wednesday, August 22, 2012. The current Zacks...

DryShips Inc. (DRYS) declared disappointing financial results for the second quarter of 2012, which fell below the Zacks Consensus Estimates. Strong performance of the company’s majority owned deepwater oil drilling unit...

China’s dominant producer of offshore crude oil and natural gas, CNOOC Limited’s (CEO) first half 2012 net profit decreased 19% year over year to 31.869 billion yuan (US$5.04 billion), or 0.71 yuan per share ($11.23...

Belden Inc. (BDC) has delivered 7 straight positive earnings surprises with an average beat of almost 13.0%. Strong estimate revisions after impressive second quarter results helped this cable, connectivity and networking...

Penn Virgina Resource Partners (PVR) has been downgraded from Neutral to Underperform. The change in rating comes as commodity prices have fallen along with a drop in coal production and an increase in emission free resources....

Shares of Sunrise Senior Living Inc. (SRZ) reached a 52-week high of $8.94 on August 17. The company had a phenomenal earnings surprise of 325.0% in the second quarter of 2012 and has a year-to-date return of 36.7%. With an...