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Consumer prices in Australia expanded 0.2% quarterly compared with estimates of 0.4% and 1.9% annually compared with the 2.2% estimate. Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) targets inflation to be in the...

Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACOR) reported adjusted earnings of 6 cents per share in the second quarter of 2017 (including the impact of stock-based compensation expenses), compared with a...

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (NASDAQ:GT) reported 39.7% decrease in adjusted earnings per share to 70 cents in second-quarter 2017 from $1.16 recorded a year ago. Also, earnings missed the...

Oil and natural gas driller, Ensco plc (NYSE:ESV) , reported diluted second-quarter 2017 loss (excluding one-time items) of 10 cents a share, narrower than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of...

Unum Group’s (NYSE:UNM) second-quarter 2017 operating net income of $1.05 per share beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.01 4. The bottom line also improved 7.1% year over year.Strong...

Energy giant Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) posted an earnings miss in second-quarter 2017 owing to a decline in liquid volumes and lower margin from chemical businesses. This was partially...

U.S. energy giant Chevron Corp. (NYSE:CVX) reported strong second-quarter results amid the recovery in commodity prices, production gains and the success of its cost savings initiatives. The company...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced a plan on Friday to reduce tobacco-related disease and death by increasing regulations on tobacco and nicotine products. The FDA is seeking to lower...

We now have earnings reports from all the major cloud infrastructure vendors – Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) , Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) , Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and International Business Machines ...

The dominant search engine company of China – Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) – released upbeat second-quarter results after the market closed on July 27. The company beat estimates on both lines...

The need to remain connected is essentially human. An era of digitization and technology is built on this need. It is here that telecommunications come to the fore as a utility. Rising demand for...

The S&P opened near its daily high and dropped 24 bps before bouncing back a bit hours before close. The index saw a fractional daily loss of 0.10% and a YTD gain of 10.57%. The U.S. Treasury puts...

Thursday, July 27, 2017The Zacks Research Daily presents the best research output of our analyst team. Today's Research Daily features new research reports on 16 major stocks, including AT&T (T),...

Investors seeking momentum may have iPath MSCI India Index ETN (WA:INP) on radar now. The fund recently hit a new 52-week high. Shares of INP are up approximately 19.8% from their 52-week low of...