With both Home Depot and Lowes reporting earnings next week, which stock is the options market betting on?   Read More

With major retail names set to announce earnings this week, the sector will be a major focus of the market. Here are the names to watch from a top analyst.   Read More

Much has been made of magazine covers/stories as contrary indicators to the stock market, but one publication seems to be specifically dead on in its trading analysis: The Onion.   Read More

The Fast Money crew likes Wal-Mart, even more so after a recent breakout from a triangle formation — a very bullish indicator for the retailer.   Read More

Stocks slid at the open on Friday after two consecutive trading days of the Dow closing above 10,000. So where should investors be looking now? Kent Croft, CIO and portfolio manager at Croft Value Fund, shared his market strategy.    Read More

The S&P 500 eked out its 6^th consecutive day of gains on Monday to end at its closing high for the year as energy shares rose alongside the price of oil.   Read More

The third quarter has past and for investors seeking dividends, they can be glad.  Standard & Poor's said yesterday that third-quarter dividend increases this year were the worst on record. Dividend payments during the third quarter fell 44.8% from a year ago, with only 191 of about 7,000 public companies -tracked by S&P- increasing their payouts.    Read More

Following are the day’s biggest winners and losers. Find out why shares of Royal Caribbean and Lowe’s popped while US Airways and Moody’s dropped.   Read More

Following are the day’s biggest winners and losers. Find out why shares of Carnival and Walter Energy popped while Lowe’s and American Airlines dropped.   Read More

Stock futures are up modestly this morning as the U.S. Dollar is giving up all of its gains from the past two days. The dollar/commodity play continues to hold as commodities are rising 1 percent to 2 percent in early trading, sending commodity stocks 2 percent to 3 percent higher pre-open.    Read More