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This weekend in Barron's online: recommendations for investing in Latin America, as well as the prospects for Twitter, Discover, Boeing and Covanta. Cover Story "The New Latin America" by Reshma Kapadia. After more than a decade of solid returns, Latin American stocks are down eight percent so...

The third-quarter earnings crunch is underway this week. The financial sector will be well represented, with quarterly reports due from the likes of Goldman Sachs and American Express, as well as the tech sector, highlighted by Google and Intel. Coca-Cola and Johnson & Johnson are among the...

The earnings crunch continues this week. Reports are due from the likes of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) and General Motors (NYSE: GM), which are expected to say their earnings were lower than a year ago. On the other hand, Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Ford (...

From small companies to large corporations, hiring of temporary workers is up. Newsday reported that, in addition to many small businesses, companies like Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), General Motors (NYSE: GM), and PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) are increasingly using part time help, or as Susan Houseman, an...

UPDATE: At 7:15 a.m. EST, PepsiCo CEO, Indra Nooyi emailed CNBC stating that the SodaStream rumor is completely untrue, according to the network SodaStream International (NASDAQ: SODA) is feeling like the pretty girl trying to decide which guy to take to prom. On Thursday, Reuters reported that...

This was rough. In fact, it was so rough that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) wrote a weekend blog post to respond to the comparison. When Windows 8 was compared to New Coke, everybody old enough to remember Coca-Cola’s (NYSE: KO) biggest misstep thought the same thing: “Now that’s just mean!” For...

This weekend in Barron's online: the annual Barron's 500 ranking, a look at some bargain stocks from that list, the prospects for Linn Energy and Atlas Air, and alternatives to REITs. Cover Story "The Barron's 500" by Jacqueline Doherty. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) may have struggled of late, but it...

The earnings crunch is on this week, with first-quarter results due from such iconic blue chips as Coca-Cola, General Electric, Google, Johnson & Johnson, McDonald's and Microsoft. Analysts expect to see year-over-year earnings growth from each of them, but earnings declines from Intel,...

Quarterly reports from General Motors (NYSE: GM) and Deere (NYSE: DE) will be among the highlights on the earnings front this week. The consensus forecast for the former calls for fourth-quarter earnings per share (EPS) to be more than 23 percent higher than a year ago to $0.51 per share. The...

Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO), shares of which rose this past week following the Super Bowl and a dividend hike from bottler Coca-Cola Enterprises (NYSE: CCE), is scheduled to report its fourth-quarter and full-year 2012 results Tuesday, February 12, before the markets open. Rising sales in emerging...

This weekend in Barron's online: a manufacturing boom in the United States is in its early days, part two of the Barron's 2013 Roundtable picks and pans, and the prospects for Intuitive Surgical, Apple and Ryman Hospitality Properties. Cover Story "The Next Boom" by Kopin Tan. After decades of...

Bank of America/Merrill Lynch's "2013 Food and Beverage Year Ahead" report came out this past week. The analyst was looking for stocks of well-positioned companies with products that are protected from consumer weakness or those with strong franchises in developing markets. Its top turnaround...

Bank of America/Merrill Lynch's "2013 Food and Beverage Year Ahead" report came out this week. The analyst was looking for stocks of well-positioned companies with products that are protected from consumer weakness or those with strong franchises in developing markets. Its top developing markets...

The earnings crunch gets underway this week, with big names in the financial, technology, consumer goods and other sectors on tap to share their most recent quarterly results. Among those expected to post the biggest year-over-year gains in earnings are Abbott Labs (NYSE: ABT), BlackRock (NYSE: BLK...