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US stock futures are lower this morning, as investors are awaiting earnings from General Motors Co (NYSE: GM) and weekly jobless claims data. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 44 points to 11,774.00 and S&P 500 index futures fell 5.20 points to 1,249.30. Nasdaq 100 futures...

Alpha Natural Resources Inc (NYSE: ANR) is expected to report its Q2 EPS at $1.12 on revenue of $1.47 billion. Kraft Foods Inc (NYSE: KFT) is projected to report its Q2 EPS at $0.58 on revenue of $13.15 billion. CIGNA Corporation (NYSE: CI) is estimated to report its Q2 EPS at $1.29 on revenue of...

Some of the stocks that may grab investor focus today are: Wall Street expects General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) to report its Q2 EPS at $1.20 on revenue of $36.71 billion. GM shares surged 1.21% to $27.50 in after-hours trading. Zumiez Inc (NASDAQ: ZUMZ) reported a 4.9% rise in its July sales at...

Walgreens (NYSE: WAG) (NASDAQ: WAG) had July sales of $5.82 billion, an increase of 4.7 percent from $5.56 billion for the same month in 2010. Total front-end sales increased 6.8 percent in July, while comparable store front-end sales increased 4.8 percent. Customer traffic in comparable stores...

by Chuck Carlson, editor The DRIP Investor When was the last time you got a pay raise of 29%? Not recently? Not ever? The fact is that personal incomes have been relatively flat for the last few years. However, one paycheck that is increasing is that of Walgreen (WAG) shareholders. Indeed, the...

CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) unveils its next round of earnings this Thursday, August 4, 2011. Get prepared with Benzinga's ultimate preview for CVS Caremark's second quarter earnings. Earnings and Revenue: Analysts are predicting an EPS reading of 64 cents/share and revenues of $26.76 billion....

Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH) announces its next round of earnings this Thursday, August 4, 2011. Get the latest predictions in Benzinga's essential guide to the company's fourth quarter earnings report. Earnings and Revenue: Ahead of the company's earnings announcement, analysts are expecting...

JP Morgan has published a research report on CVS Caremark Corporation (NYSE: CVS) and has added the company to JP Morgan's Analyst Focus List with a raised price target of $50, up from $43. In the report, JP Morgan writes, "We point to 4 reasons: 1) a return to double-digit PBM EBIT growth in...

JP Morgan has raised the price target on CVS Caremark Corporation (NYSE: CVS) from $43 to $50 and maintains its Overweight rating.

Quarterly reports of note scheduled for this week include those from Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE: ADM), General Motors (NYSE: GM), MasterCard (NYSE: MA), Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), all of which are expected to post earnings growth, as well as Pfizer (NYSE: PFE)...

Rite Aid Corporation (NYSE: RAD) today announced sales results for July. For the four weeks ended July 23, 2011, same store sales increased 1.9 percent over the prior-year period. July front-end same store sales increased 3.1 percent while pharmacy same store sales, which included an approximate...

On CNBC's Fast Money, Dan Nathan said that investors should be defensive and buy weekly puts in SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: SPY) on Wednesday. SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) fell 0.37% today, and it closed at $133.33. Guy Adami likes Church & Dwight Co., Inc. (NYSE: CHD), and wants to buy it...

Point Roberts WA - July 25, 2011 (Investorideas.com renewable energy/green newswire) Investorideas.com, a leader in cleantech investor research, reports on trading for renewable energy stocks in the electric car and battery sector for July 25th. Walgreens (NYSE: WAG) (NASDAQ: WAG) made news last...

Access Community Health Network CEO Donna Thompson today announced new initiatives with Walgreens (NYSE: WAG) that will help ACCESS fulfill its mission to provide high-quality, accessible health care to residents in underserved communities. Create a pharmacy and therapeutics committee that will...

Overall, retail sales have sputtered in recent reports. But not all is doom and gloom in the sector; here are seven retail stocks that are on a tear. All of them hit 52-week highs yesterday, and all are up more than 20% since the beginning of the year (or in one case, since its IPO earlier this...