Stock Analysts

GE Q4 Operating Earnings Beat on Sustained Industrial Focus

Sustained focus on core industrial business enabled General Electric Company ( GE ) to report strong fourth quarter 2014 results, with solid industrial segment profit growth and margin expansion. Operating earnings for the reported quarter improved to $5.6 billion or 56 cents a share from $5.4 billion or 53 cents a share in the year-ago quarter. The increase in year-over-year earnings was primarily attributable to top-line growth. […]

Stock Analysts

Skyworks Comfortably Beats on Q1 Earnings, Outlook Bullish

Premium analog semiconductor manufacturer Skyworks Solutions Inc. ( SWKS ) reported strong first-quarter fiscal 2015 results, driven by superior execution of operational plans and healthy demand pull. GAAP net income for the reported quarter more than doubled to $195.2 million or $1.01 per share from $94.5 million or 49 cents per share in the year-earlier quarter. […]

Stock Analysts

E*TRADE Q4 Earnings Beat on Solid Trading Activity, Stock Up

Shares of brokerage firm – E*TRADE Financial Corporation ( ETFC ) rose 4.24% in after hours trade following the release of its impressive fourth-quarter 2014 results on Jan 22, after the market closed. Driven by strong trading activity, E*TRADE delivered a positive earnings surprise of 13% in the quarter, marking the fourth straight quarter of earnings beat. Earnings per share of 26 cents outpaced the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 23 cents. […]

Kitco Video

Could The Fed Surprise Markets Next Week? | Kitco News

[youtube s3QsJfTt4-Y] It’s Friday and Gary Wagner is back on Kitco News to make sense of all the ‘drama’ that has happened this past week in the market. Gold hit a high of $1,307 an ounce Thursday and Wagner says, on a technical basis, there is a “defining trend that this market has moved up.” He adds that the gold market is in unusual territory right now with it moving higher in tandem with the U.S. dollar and U.S. […]

Economic Data

Q4 Earnings Shaping Up Weakly – Ahead of Wall Street

Friday, January 23, 2015 Stocks will likely continue to cheer the big monetary stimulus from the European Central Bank (ECB) even as the picture emerging from Q4 earnings season is less than reassuring. Oil has been a big drag on earnings. The Saudi news has brought a modest uptick in oil prices today, but the commodity’s cumulative price thus far has effectively eliminated all earnings growth in the first half of 2015 […]