Some of the stocks that may grab investor focus today are:
Wall Street expects Accenture Plc (NYSE: ACN) to report quarterly earnings at $2.19 per share on revenue of $13.42 billion before the opening bell. Accenture shares rose 0.4% to $336.00 in after-hours trading.
Investors who have owned stocks in the last year have generally experienced some big gains. In fact, the SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) total return over the last 12 months is 33.1%. But there is no question some big-name stocks performed better than others along the way.
Stock market volatility remains the theme as indexes are little changed from where they started the week with not much NEW news or data to help guide direction. Bulls seem to be comfortable ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s upcoming policy meeting next week on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 21-22.
We're in for a seasonally weak period in September. Last week, Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) officially kicked off the first earnings release of the Q3 earnings season. Oracle reported results for its fiscal quarter ending in August.