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DuPont reported better-than-expected first-quarter 2016 results Tuesday morning before markets opened.
3M is scheduled to report its first-quarter financial results before the markets open on Tuesday.
When it comes to the earnings reports from General Electric, they still can perhaps best be described as "complicated and complex."
Caterpillar reported mixed first-quarter 2016 results before markets opened Friday morning.
General Electric reported better-than-expected first-quarter 2016 results before markets opened Friday morning.
Ahead of its earnings report, Caterpillar announced on Thursday that year-over-year retail sales for the month of March fell 13% globally and 8% in North America.
Several analysts have weighed in with changes to their estimates and ratings on Alcoa. Here are some recent revisions and comments.
U.S. background checks for citizens wishing to purchase a firearm have soared to nearly 7.7 million in the first three months of 2016.
General Electric wants GE Capital, its financial arm, to be removed from the Federal Reserve's list of systemically important financial institutions, to which it was added in July 2013.
At an investors and analyst meeting Tuesday morning in St. Paul, Minn., 3M's CEO Inge G. Thulin will outline the company's plan through 2020.
Monday's top analyst upgrades and downgrades roundup was dominated by UBS initiating Berkshire Hathaway with a Buy rating.
While there is no guarantee that any of these industrial companies get purchased, they all stand out on their own very strong metrics and make good sense as takeover candidates or standalone entities.
Sherwin-Williams and Valspar announced Sunday that the two paint companies have agreed to a deal in which the former will acquire the latter for $113 per share in cash.
In the recent 24/7 Wall St. examination of companies with stock prices over $500, one sat well above the rest.
While Caterpillar of course does not sell oil directly, it does sell the machinery that drills for it, and capital for the natural gas industry as well.