DailyFinance.com: M. Spencer Green/AP By DEE-ANN DURBIN DETROIT -- The Detroit automakers are largely forgoing the traditional two-week summer break at their factories and speeding up production to meet buyers' growing demand for new cars and trucks. Ford Motor Co. ... Read more

In the wake of the first-quarter earnings season, analysts at Sterne Agee have issued a research report on the energy and industrials sectors.

Their energy stock recommendations include CONSOL Energy (NYSE: CNX), Superior Energy Services (NYSE: SPN) and Whiting Petroleum (NYSE: WLL). Below is a

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DailyFinance.com: Getty Images The cicadas are coming. Later this month, Brood II -- periodical cicadas that emerge from the ground every 17 years -- will invade the Northeast and the mid-Atlantic. They're largely harmless insects, but their mating chirps and the ... Read more

For more than a brief moment during the Great Recession, it appeared the fate of the Big Three automakers was in jeopardy. General Motors (NYSE: GM) declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy, while Chrysler filed its third bankruptcy before its ownership stake was sold to Cerberus Capital Management. Ford (NYSE:

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DailyFinance.com: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images By DEE-ANN DURBIN and TOM KRISHER DETROIT -- Ford said Thursday that it's adding 2,000 workers to the Missouri plant that makes the F-150 pickup because of surging U.S. truck demand. Ford Motor Co. (F) plans ... Read more

This weekend in Barrons online: the impending impact on the economy and Wall Street of the Millennial generation, and the prospects for Boeing's Dreamliner, the Dell buyout, Hanesbrands and Ecolab.

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"On the Rise" by Jacqueline Doherty.

The so-called Millennials, those who have reached adulthood since 2000, are poised to start

American automobile giant Ford Motor Company (F) reported early on Wednesday a 15% increase in first quarter profits, aided by strong results in North America. Adjusted EPS and revenue topped estimates. The Dearborn, Michigan-based company said its first quarter net income rose to $1.61 billion, or 40 cents per share, from $1.40 billion, or 35 [...]

DailyFinance.com: Peter Dejong/APFord CEO Alan Mulally, second from left and on screen, stands on stage with other Ford executives at the unveiling of new Ford Mondeo models in Amsterdam last fall. DEARBORN, Mich. -- Ford says net income rose 15 percent in the first ... Read more

DailyFinance.com: Getty Images Nobody can predict all the news that will break and move the markets in a given week, but here are a few things we do know: A U.S. automaker is cruising toward what should be another solid quarterly report, a struggling Japanese gaming ... Read more

The earnings crunch is in full swing this week. Some of the highlights include anticipated quarterly reports from the likes of Apple, Amazon.com and Ford, which analysts expect to report lower per-share earnings for the most recent quarter than a year ago.

On the other hand, year-over year earnings growth is

DailyFinance.com: Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images General Motors' 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray convertible on display at the New York auto show, which runs through April 7. Consumer interest in new cars has grown as the economy has slowly improved, fueling ... Read more

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) could be on the cusp of an $85 million payday after uncovering a potential error in its ongoing patent trial against Samsung.

According to FOSS Patents' Florian Mueller, Judge Lucy Koh "thought the jury had granted, on the basis of an impermissible legal theory presented

It is clear that as the housing market recovers, the home builder stocks, and even the big-box home improvement retailers Home Depot (NYSE: HD) and Lowe's Companies (NYSE: LOW), have benefited from the boom.

But in a research report released Tuesday, UBS (NYSE: UBS) analysts

This weekend in Barron's online: the annual list of the best chief executives in the world, and the prospects for Darden Restaurants, Sarepta Therapeutics and Seacor Holdings.

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"World's Best CEOs" by Andrew Bary.

Barron's ninth annual list of the 30 best chief executives in the world includes leaders whose companies

DailyFinance.com: Elaine Thompson, AP It's been nearly two years since Bill Gates came out with his famous dismissal of "green energy" in general, and solar power in particular, as "cute" but too inefficient, too expensive, and too small in scale to actually make a ... Read more

DailyFinance.com: Mario Tama/Getty ImagesDEARBORN, Mich. -- Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally's compensation fell 29 percent to $20.95 million in 2012 as the company's board weighed record North American profits and quality improvements against heavy losses in Europe ... Read more