Not many companies with an exposure to swine flu could say they benefited from the malady. Kimberly-Clark (KMB) can. Kimberly-Clark posted a 15% increase in sales in its healthcare segment in the second quarter of the year, with a slug of that...

The outcome of the U.S. military’s award of its manged-care contract surprised a number of analysts who had been handicapping the proceedings. But the outcome of the selection process hasn’t resulted in any real windfall for the winners o...

Bank of America (BAC)should be able to ride the contributions from Countrywide Financial and Merrill Lynch to a multiple expansion that could add as much as 40% to its market capitalization. But the nation’s biggest banking enterprise is expe...

McDonald’s (MCD) recorded sharp gains in sales outside the U.S. in May, but domestic activity proved less robust amid tough comparisons with a popular product introduction last year, leaving investors a little disappointed with the overall...

$15 billion (market cap) medical device maker Boston Scientific (BSX) this morning said president and CEO Jim Tobin, 65, will retire come July 13, to be replaced by Ray Elliott, 59, who retired in 2007 as CEO of orthopedics company Zimmer Holdings (ZMH).

Beleaguered radio station owner Citadel Broadcasting (CTDB) has given owners of $2 billion of debt until Tuesday to sign up for a deal in which they would swap almost all of the company’s IOUs for 99% of the equity in a new company to emerge from a...

Moving into the close, shares of Chesapeake Energy (CHK), a natural gas provider, have held onto gains since this morning’s announcement by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration that showed a higher-than-expected drawdown of...

Gold’s rebound today is part of the precious metal’s rise toward 1,300, according to HSBC chief commodities analyst James Steel in a Financial Times article today. The direction of the dollar and and its possible decline as the principal reserve...

The good news is, we’re now done with nine years out of former Citigroup (C) technical analyst Alan Shaw’s prediction for a 20-year bear market. Bad news is, there’s another 11 years to go. In an interview with Bloomberg, Shaw, who retired from...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is “completely aligned” with the U.K.’s Gordon Brown on the need for a hike in taxes on bankers’ pay, according to Reuters. Following England’s announcement of a 50% tax on banker pay yesterday, a spokesman for Brown...