Lower sales, lower margins, higher restructuring costs and a dwindling customer adds up to a pretty grim outlook for Harley-Davidson (HOG) in 2010.

General Electric (GE) reported a 19% drop in earnings for Q4 2009, compared with the same period in 2008. Still, that beat analysts' estimates by $0.02 per share.

Wall Street certainly seems to think the new Massachusetts Senator will derail health care reform, which should send health insurers and big pharma stocks higher.

Williams Companies plans to transfer it gas pipeline business and other assets to Williams Partners in a move that will put the MLP on the playing field with the big boys.

Citibank reported a big loss today, like JPMorgan before it. Here's why the other big banks are likely to follow suit.

Starbucks Corp. is getting its wings clipped along with the market today ahead of earnings. What will be more interesting than Starbucks' actual earnings report is how this impacts the other coffee-trade stocks.

Kraft finally sealed the Cadbury deal, but Hershey still has time to make a counter offer. But maybe Hershey should be more concerned about getting gobbled up itself.

Citigroup (C), Bank of America (BAC), Wells Fargo (WFC), Morgan Stanley (MS) and Goldman Sachs (GS) are just a few of the banks reporting earnings this week.

Stocks trading around $1 per share could be your ticket to easy street, or they could leave you holding nothing but pennies. Take a look at these seven high-profile dollar stocks to see which ones are worth the risk.

The latest round of record-breaking snow isn't all bad. In fact, these five cold weather stocks could actually bring red-hot returns to investors savvy enough to take advantage of the extreme weather.

In today's tepid economy, the thing that matters most might be revenues as a measure of a company's performance. By that measure, JPMorgan (JPM) reported numbers this morning that have probably dampened optimism about a re-awakening economy.

Target announced today that it will resume a $10 billion stock buyback program.

Today's report from the U.S. Commerce Department puts to bed the worst year for retail sales since the department began tracking sales in 1992.

On Thursday, President Obama is expected to announce details of a plan to tax the financial industry as much as $120 billion over 10 years in order to recover the cost of the bailout.

What do you get when you team up blue aliens with a controversial political figure? Well, if you're Rupert Murdoch, you're hoping the two combine to deliver profits for News Corp. (NWS).

These four retailers represent the best-of-breed retails stocks in the luxury retail space. Here's why.

So far, earnings season is off to a slightly negative start, but the caution in using today's earnings data is that some of it may not exactly be a "tell" for the rest of the companies reporting this week.

Despite the positive performance of many homebuilder stocks in 2009, today's fourth-quarter and fiscal year-end report from KB Home (KBH) could bring some reality back to the housing sector.

China's auto sales grew nearly 50% year-over-year in 2009 surpassing the U.S. for the first time ever as the world's largest auto market.