Earnings Forecasts

Health insurance giant WellPoint Inc.’s profit dropped 7.6% in the third quarter compared with the same period last year even though enrollments and revenues rose. The nation’s largest insurer by membership and parent of Anthem Blue Cross in...

Occidental Petroleum saw its profits rise like an old-style gusher in the third quarter, up nearly 50% to $1.77 billion compared to a year earlier, the company said Thursday. It benefited, in part, from from record domestic production that helped offset...

LinkedIn recorded its first quarterly loss since the online professional network's initial public offering in May....

Live Nation posted higher profit on slightly lower revenue its third quarter, declaring the the concerts business has "stabilized."...

A sharp drop in World of Warcraft subscribers marred an announcement by Activision Blizzard that its latest Call of Duty game released on Tuesday is set to break sales records....

Despite a bump in sales, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported third-quarter profits that fell below Wall Street expectations, reflecting continued financial worries among its core low-income shoppers....

Despite posting an unexpected profit and revenue that beat Wall Street's expectations, Pandora's shares sank following the release of its third quarter results as investor fretted about the online radio company's high costs....

Hurt by increased competition and a down economy, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion reported disappointing first-quarter earnings and lowered its outlook for the year, sending its shares plummeting Friday. The Canadian smartphone maker also plans to...

Risk takers were back in control on Wall Street on Tuesday: Stocks and commodities rallied while money poured out of Treasury bonds for a second day, amid hopes for a resolution of the Greek debt crisis and faint signs of......

Google's Larry Page delivered some unexpectedly good news to Wall Street on Thursday with second-quarter earnings that were far better than what analysts had forecast. Shares jumped 11% to $588.27 on the news. Page, the Google co-founder who replaced Eric...

Whither mortgage lending? Many foreclosures are back on hold as the big banks wrestle with regulators over the price they must pay for botching their handling of distressed borrowers. Bank of America, preannouncing its earnings, said in late June that.......

While most U.S. stocks fell on Monday, Apple Inc. powered up to a record high ahead of the company’s earnings report Tuesday. The Silicon Valley giant’s shares rose $8.88, or 2.4%, to close at $373.80. The company’s stock market value......