Filed under: Earnings reports, Wal-Mart (WMT), Family Dollar Stores (FDO) Dick's Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS) competed on Tuesday in a contest that no company really wants to play: the Expectations Game. Things turned out pretty well for the famous seller of sports stuff (being that I'm no athlete, I ...

Filed under: Earnings reports, Conventions and conferences, Economic data, Federal Reserve After testifying before a Senate committee about AIG (NYSE: AIG) last week, the Fed's Ben Bernanke participates in a Council of Foreign Relations event Monday evening. Economic data due to be released this wee...

Filed under: Earnings reports, Cisco Systems (CSCO), Time Warner (TWX), Motorola (MOT), Estee Lauder (EL), NYSE Euronext (NYX), BP p.l.c. ADS (BP), Anadarko Petroleum (APC) Here are some highlights from this past week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks: Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: APC) repo...

Filed under: Major movement, Forecasts, Good news, Options, Technical Analysis Dick's Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS - option chain) shares are way higher today after the company announced yesterday evening that it expects fourth-quarter profits to reach at least the midpoint of its prior forecast. It ha...

Scanning through some of the stocks I track, I noticed that Dick's Sporting Goods (DKS: sentiment, chart, options) was up more than 5%, which is quite a departure from its recent 4-week slump...(Read More)...

Continuing my series utilizing the filters on SchaeffersResearch.com, I'm checking out some struggling stocks with heavy short interest - coupled with excessive optimism on the Street - as these bearish bets can often place additional selling pressure on already-downtrending equities...(Read More)...

Filed under: Earnings reports, Microsoft (MSFT), PepsiCo (PEP), Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (KKD), Alcoa Inc (AA), Best Buy (BBY), Nortel Networks (NT), QUALCOMM Inc (QCOM), Texas Instruments (TXN), CMGI Inc (CMGI), Lehman Br Holdings (LEH) Here are some highlights from this past week's earnings coverage...

Filed under: Diageo plc (DEO), Best Buy (BBY) Father's Day is a special occasion for many of us, a day to show our daddies how much we love them. We give dad some extra attention that day and usually also a present that could make him happy. Kiplinger.com has an interesting idea -- one that I really...

Dick's Sporting Goods (DKS) has weak profits. Share drop to $21.07 from 52-week high of $36.78. GE (GE) falls to $30.80 on general economic malaise. The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]...

Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. said profit slipped in its fiscal first quarter, in part due to higher material costs and shorter sales. (DKS)...