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Essex Property Trust, Inc. (NYSE:ESS) is scheduled to report fourth-quarter 2017 results on Feb 7, after the market closes. The company’s funds from operations (FFO) per share and revenues are...

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) reported fourth-quarter 2017 earnings of $3.75 per share, which soared 143.3% year over year. Adjusting for a tax benefit of almost $789 million due to the recent enactment...

Shares of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) opened lower on Friday, the first trading period after the company reported both top and bottom-line beats in its first fiscal quarter of 2018—despite missing...

Allergan plc (NYSE:AGN) announced that the FDA has approved a label expansion of its anti-infective drug, Avycaz (ceftazidime and avibactam). With this nod, the drug is now approved for treatment of...

Happy Groundhog Day! As we see on the first Friday of almost every month, new non-farm payrolls from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) have been released before the opening bell. This comes in...

Phillips 66 (NYSE:PSX) posted adjusted fourth-quarter 2017 earnings of $1.07 per share, which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 86 cents and surpassed the year-ago figure of 16 cents. The...

Friday, February 2, 2018Happy Groundhog Day! As we see on the first Friday of almost every month, new non-farm payrolls from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) have been released before the opening...

Pacific Biosciences of California Inc. (NASDAQ:PACB) reported a loss of 18 cents per share in the fourth quarter of 2017, a penny narrower than the Zacks Consensus Estimate. Also, the figure was...

Sprint (NYSE:S) reported better-than-expected financial results in the third quarter of fiscal 2017.This Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) stock faces fierce competition in the domestic wireless market from...

Genworth Financial Inc. (NYSE:GNW) is slated to report fourth-quarter 2017 results on Feb 6 after the market closes. Last quarter, the company missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by...

Kforce Inc. (NASDAQ:KFRC) is scheduled to report fourth-quarter 2017 results after the market closes on Feb 6.Last quarter, the company reported adjusted earnings of $11.5 million or 45 cents per...

An Earnings Miss: U.S. energy giant Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) reported adjusted earnings per share of 73 cents, lower than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.27. The underperformance primarily...

S&P Global Inc. (NYSE:SPGI) is slated to report fourth-quarter 2017 results before the opening bell on Feb 6. Last quarter, the company reported adjusted earnings from continued operations of...

Radian Group Inc.’s (NYSE:RDN) fourth-quarter 2017 operating income of 51 cents per share beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 15.91%. The bottom line also improved 24.4% year over year.Radian...