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Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) is slated to report first-quarter fiscal 2018 results on May 25. In the previous quarter, the company exceeded the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 17.5%. Notably, it has...

It has been the accepted wisdom for a while that it is only a question of time before Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) mops up the traditional brick-and-mortar retailer’s every last sales dollar. I am...

In a sign that Prime Minister Abe’s stimulus policies were having their desired impact, data released on Thursday showed that Japan’s economy had expanded for the fifth successive quarter....

Over the last five trading days, performance of banking stocks has been bearish. The news from Washington about Donald Trump interfering with a federal probe, along with calls for independent...

Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT) reported strong second-quarter fiscal 2017 results, with both the top and the bottom line surpassing our estimates.The company’s pro-forma earnings per...

The U.S. Energy Department's inventory release showed that crude stockpiles declined for the sixth straight week, continuing to drag down the overall surplus. Moreover, domestic oil production fell...

Donald Trump’s presidency is expected to benefit defensive and domestic-oriented utilities immensely, even though conventional wisdom runs counter to this view in light of historical...

Short Term Elliott Wave view in FTSE 100 Index suggests the rally from 4/20 low (7096.6) is unfolding as a zigzag Elliott Wave structure where Minute wave ((a)) ended at 7302.57 and Minute wave ((b))...

The Retail Sector’s Q1 Earnings Scorecard from Zacks has this to say about the sector: “Total Q1 earnings for the Retail sector are up +1.4% from the same period last year on +2.9% higher...

Ireland’s Prime Minister, Enda Kenny has confirmed that he will be stepping down as the leader of his party, Fine Gael and subsequently as the premier of the country, as soon as a successor is...

Wheaton Precious Metals Corp.'s (NYSE:WPM) Q1-17 results were closely aligned with our prior expectations with the single exception that there was a 1.3Moz under-sale of silver relative to production,...

Photocure (LON:PHONOK) presented the findings of from its Phase III clinical trial of Hexvix/Cysview for bladder cancer surveillance at the American Urological Association annual meeting. These...

On today’s episode of the Zacks Friday Finish Line, Content Writer Ryan McQueeney and Editor Maddy Johnson take on this week’s biggest stories, including the reaction to the massive...

Brazil is in the middle of yet another crisis. This time, the current President, Michel Temer has been accused of bribing Eduardo Cunha to “remain silent”. Cunha, the former speaker of the...