Earnings Forecasts

Here's what we have our eye on today: Many automakers reported first-quarter profits today. Chrysler fared well, posting $473 million compared with $116 million in the first quarter of 2011. Last year the automaker posted the first annual profit since.......

By any account, Nissan had a good year. Despite challenges in Asia and weakening consumer confidence in debt-ridden Europe, the Japanese automaker outpaced analysts' expectations for profits over the first half of its fiscal year, which ended last...

Here's what we have our eye on today: Despite Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne emphasizing "zero political content" from Chrysler's Super Bowl XLVI ad, the two-minute spot featuring actor Clint Eastwood has become a political flashpoint, The Detroit News...

Here's what we have our eye on today: Volkswagen says it's forecasting a stable profit for 2012 and currently has $22.3 billion cash in the bank, according to Bloomberg News. That money allows the German automaker to be more aggressive......

Here's what we have our eye on today: Federal officials are expanding their Ford investigation of stuck throttles, The Detroit News reports. The original probe included 360,000 2005-'06 Ford Taurus sedans and 14 consumer complaints. Detached cruise-...

by Janet Hook with Noam N. Levey, Jim Puzzanghera, Richard Simon and Jim Tankersley. . With Congress moving toward passage of an $800-billion-plus economic stimulus plan, big government is back. Unabashed. With a vengeance. The stimulus is bigger than...

FPL isn???t happy that state regulators have extended rate-hike hearings and delayed a final decision on the $1.3 billion increase until Jan. 11. As the revised schedule was re-affirmed by the Florida Public Service Commission last Friday, an FPL...

American automakers aren't known for high gas mileage or high-quality small cars, but that???s changing. The Los Angeles International Auto Show saw the introduction of two smaller cars from Chevrolet and Ford, both of which promise highway fuel economy...

Corporate earnings reports have pacified investors this week after a bout of selling followed renewed concerns about a global slowdown last week. It's not that companies have provided dazzling first-quarter results. Many are continuing to make their...

After turning squeamish early in the week, investors returned to the stock market and sent the Standard & Poor's 500 index to 1,517 Friday, the highest level since November 2007. It hasn't hit the all-time high of 1,565 of October 2007, but it was an...

Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin this week accused Morgan Stanley of breaking the law as lead underwriter in Facebook Inc.’s initial public offering, triggering a $5 million fine. What had Morgan Stanley done wrong? The...

Investors have been ducking for two days — laying low while they hope that corporate executives assure them during the next few weeks that companies have come through a soft patch and can produce strong profits in 2013. The market has entered...