Flat revenues at Disney (DIS) and a drop in U.S. same-store sales for McDonald's (MCD) suggest that the slow down in consumer spending doesn't appear to be over.

Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) reported fourth-quarter 2009 revenue numbers that were nearly 20% lower than the year-ago period.

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Sprint earnings were short of expectations this morning, implying that Sprint's strategy to grab market share from competitors Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile isn't working.

All of Obama's horses, and all of Obama's men, can't put the housing market back together again -- but that won't stop them from spending your tax dollars in the name of doing so.

Nuclear stocks have enjoyed a brief renaissance over the last couple of weeks thanks to the 2011 White House Budget, which provides for $36 billion in new DOE and government loan guarantees for the construction of new nuclear plants.

Earnings season is slowly winding down, but there still many key market-moving companies set to report this week. Here's what you need to know.

Video game maker Electronic Arts (ERTS) expects shipments of all video game industry packaged goods to fall by 3% in 2010 thanks to competition from online games.

Although spot gold prices traded as high as $1074.30 an ounce this morning, it is unlikely that the events leading to today's rise signal a move back to highs over $1,200/ounce.

China's attempts to enhance its domestic economy at the same time that it tries to reduce its enormous trade surplus has affected the value of Chinese-based ETFs, ETNs and closed-end funds traded in the U.S.

A bevy of big-time retailers reported solid January same-store sales numbers today, while others, like URBN, DDS and BKE, did not fare as well.

Monster Worldwide (MWW) will buy HotJobs from Yahoo! (YHOO) for $225 million in cash, solidifying Monster's position as the No. 2 player in the Internet career field behind leader CareerBuilder.

Cisco's impressive earnings have key implications for the enterprise technology spending that is impacting other key technology companies.

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If Baidu can't capitalize on Google's troubles with the Chinese government, will Google find a way to turn Baidu into an also-ran in the search engine wars as it has done with Yahoo?

Despite all of the sweeping change that could come from Washington, some companies will survive, and even thrive, under the current administration's plans.

In the smartphone market, Nokia (NOK) rules with about twice the market share as its leading competitors Research In Motion (RIMM) and Apple (AAPL).