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Many of my recent conversations with investors have quickly turned to today's hottest market topic - the price of bonds and whether or not a bubble in fixed-income investments is inflating.

Stocks continued higher for the second week in a row and the rebound has gone far enough to get the attention of many investors and traders. MoneyShow’s Tom Aspray offers a review of the major indexes and offers t...

In recent months there has been a rush of companies offering "retail bonds" direct to investors, says Emma Simon

Low interest rates are forcing investors to take outsize risks. Here are some better alternatives.

After a month when markets were whipsawed by the presidential election and worries about the "fiscal cliff," shares ended not far from where they started.

The story of how KKR was shouldered aside in a bid to acquire chip maker Renesas underscores the hurdles private-equity firms face in Japan.

With peripheral bond yields tightening and the Eurozone breathing a generalized sigh of relief after Greece was given enough cash to survive for a few months, Moody?s decided to ruin the party and downgrade the credit ra...

Triumph Group, Inc. (TGI - Analyst Report) reached a new 52-week high of $67.39 on November 2, soon after releasing solid fiscal second quarter results that included a raised EPS guidance. This Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy)...

Waste Management and Republic Services are both unloved on Wall Street. Yet both pay generous dividends and look reasonably priced.

Eaton Vance Corp. (EV - Snapshot Report) hit its 52-week high on November 23 in the wake of its strong fiscal fourth quarter report. Moreover, this Zacks #2 Rank (Buy) investment manager pays a regular quarterly dividend...

With U.S. Treasury yields around 3%, income-producing stocks are attractive. Here's where some money managers are finding opportunities.

Berkshire Hathaway will pay CaixaBank €600 million ($778.7 million) for the future cash flow from a portfolio of life insurance policies, a rare dip into a fiscally stressed euro-zone country for Warren Buffett's i...

Shares of Brown Shoe Company Inc. (BWS - Snapshot Report) have been trending higher since May and hit a 52-week high on November 27. This footwear retailer reported a positive earnings surprise of 27.7% for its fiscal th...

Foot Locker, Inc. (FL - Snapshot Report) recently reported its tenth straight quarter with a positive earnings surprise, sending all 11 earnings estimates for this fiscal year higher in the past 30 days. In addition, thi...

Each week at DividendChannel.com, we screen through our coverage universe of dividend paying stocks, and we look at a variety of data ? dividend yield, book value, quarterly earnings ? and compare it to the stock's tradi...

Badger Meter Inc. (BMI - Analyst Report) has been trading above $40 per share since its strong third quarter report from mid October. Previously, it had been trading in the $30 range. It has delivered a year-to-date retu...

Southwest Gas Corporation (SWX - Snapshot Report) surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by a solid 85.2% in the third quarter, marking the fourth straight quarter with a positive earnings surprise for this natural gas o...

Rap's biggest acts pulled in $415 million this year, the most since 2008.

With a decline of near 60%, AMD is the worst performer on the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index this year. Touching a peak of $8.20 in March this year, AMD's stock price has declined to a historical low of $1.80 since the...

A record number of women ran for U.S. Senate in 2012--and the list of (16 Democratic, 4 Republican) faces reads like a shortlist of candidates for First Female President.

Contrary to expectations, a meeting between ArcelorMittal CEO Lakshmi Mittal and the French President Francois Hollande has failed to resolve the row that erupted over French industry minister Arnaud Montebourg?s scathin...

This forty eighth trading week of 2012 comes to a close with investors keeping a close eye on negotiations between the President and Congressional leaders, as both sides seek to avoid the ominous fiscal cliff from occurr...