The S&P 500 snapped a 6-day winning streak with an ever-so-slight 0.07 point decline yesterday. However, rising 5.5% during the period, the run-up was the best such streak for the big-cap index since March 2003. Returning to the green today, the S&P is now up 7 of the first 8 trading days this month.   Read More

Plus, get seven more names to buoy your portfolio when the previously mentioned eight aren’t working.   Read More

Despite posting a 51 percent decline in profit Friday, Chevron's 11-percent increase in oil production offers an opportunity to investors, said Phil Weiss, senior energy analyst at Argus Research    Read More

Despite a weak start to the last week of October, the Dow and S&P are now both up 2.58% and 0.85% for the month as of Thursday's closing session.  Even though October ranks as a slightly positive month historically on average, up more than 53% of the time for all three major U.S. Indexes, the Nasdaq Composite has trailed behind, currently down 1.2% month to date.   Read More

ConocoPhillips reported a 71 percent decline in its quarterly profit. Other oil giants including Chevron and Exxon will announce results later on this week. What should investors expect? Tina Vital, integrated oil and gas equity analyst at Standard & Poor’s U.S. Equity Research, shared her outlook.    Read More

Which is why most investors had no clue about what was going on today. But Cramer knew.   Read More

Energy was a bright spot in Tuesday’s market largely due to strong earnings from BP. How should you game the rest of big oil earnings?   Read More

Both the Dow and S&P closed lower on Monday as investors ditched natural resource names after commodity shares succumbed to pressure from the higher U.S. dollar.   Read More

With Microsoft's earnings report this morning, two thirds of the Dow 30 have now reported.  Here is a summary of how things stand in terms of EPS and revenues.   Read More

There’s still a week-and-a-half left in the month, but the markets are currently maintaining yet another month of gains.   Read More