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Oracle, Discover and Tiffany are all expected to report year-over-year growth for their most recent quarters this week. Meanwhile, many will be looking for an updated snapshot of the housing market, with three sets of real-estate data coming out.

FedEx, the world's leading package-delivery service and an ostensible bellwether of the U.S. economy, will report its latest earnings this week. Also, with the holiday shopping season well underway, Best Buy and Discover Financial Services are also reporting quarterly results.

Oklahoma small businessman Willie Rosseett was recently stunned when he learned that Discover Financial Services Inc. (DFS) had canceled his credit card. "We have never been late and always paid them more than the minimum," said Rosseett, who owns ARDCO, a maker of circuit boards. "There is nothing...

It says something about the market's generally improving impression of financial stocks. Discover Financial Services (DFS) will sell $500 million in shares. The disclosure about what the company will do with the money is typically vague. Underwriters will get a 30-day option to sell additional...

American International Group Inc. (AIG) used more than $90 billion out of the $170 billion in federal aid to pay out foreign and domestic banks, some of whom had received their own multibillion-dollar U.S. government bailouts. That's not all. AIG also paid out around $450 million in bonuses. AIG...