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Stressed, white swans can be vicious fighters.  I’ve witnessed a pair on my pond drive off an invading pair, biting, flapping and hissing hysterically.

If a bank is forced to pay $54 million to regulators over bad loans should the public be made aware of it?

In this series, we look through the most recent Dividend Channel ''DividendRank'' report, and then we cherry pick only those companies that have experienced insider buying within the past six months. The officers and dir...

Discussion over the Federal Reserve's monetary policy efforts and quantitative easing is pervasive. What investors aren’t hearing enough about is what happens when the economy recovers and money starts to flow thr...

Much has been said of the Federal Reserve’s ultra-loose monetary policies diluting the U.S. dollar, of a slow economy eroding the value of the greenback, and of the U.S. possibly losing is status as reserve curren...

(Kitco News) - Van Eck Global, which already offers several high-profile precious metals-related investments, is looking to add two more – gold and silver exchange-traded funds in which investors have the optio...

(Kitco News) - Gold prices ended the U.S. day session with good gains and hit a two-week high Tuesday. Heavy short covering and bargain hunting mostly related to technical factors were featured. There was also likely ...

Many investors never heard of BATS Global Markets until a year ago, when the exchange operator botched its own initial public offering. The company has spent the last 12 months recovering though and now it wants to make ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is likely to buy sugar in the domestic market this year to drive up prices.

OPEC cut demand for its crude this year, citing growing production of U.S. shale oil, potentially putting the group on track to have its lowest share of the global oil market in more than 10 years.

In recent weeks, the South African rand has been a one-way bet: sell.

Specialty gas provider Praxair has run out of ways to fuel profitable growth and it is turning to acquisitions to try to maintain top line and EPS growth, but that's diluting shareholder value.

Google (GOOG) had its earnings estimates reduced by Oppenheimer (OPY) through 2014 as the firm believes that earnings will have a negative impact due to the policy change with regards to the toolbar and enhanced campaign...

Stocks slipped into negative territory as investors found little reason to keep buying after mixed news on the small-business sector and a weak reading from the U.K. factory sector.

Knight Capital Group plans to keep its small futures-brokerage unit following its planned takeover by Getco as part of a push by the enlarged firm into trading services.

Bucking the trend, Costco was one of the few major discount retailers to deliver solid first quarter sales numbers amid a slow economy and the gradual impact of the sequester and the expiration of the payroll tax cut.

Axiall Corporation (AXLL) was upgraded by Citigroup (C) to buy as the company is likely to experience higher PVC margins.

A seven-day winning streak for U.S. stocks was in jeopardy Tuesday, as a bid to reverse a weak start faltered in morning trading.

Microsoft (MSFT) maintained its quarterly dividend of 23 cents per share. The dividend is payable June 13, 2013 to shareholders of record on May 16, 2013. The ex-dividend date will be May 14, 2013.

A cheap fund is not necessarily a good fund. Fund holdings can affect fund performance more than fees or past performance. Cheap funds with good stocks are the ideal.

As central banks around the world have driven interest rates down to record levels, income investors have gotten squeezed but MoneyShow’s Tom Aspray has found a stock and two ETFS with attractive yields that have ...

In trading on Tuesday, precious metals shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 2.3%. Leading the group were shares of Endeavour Silver (EXK), up about 9% and shares of Almaden Minerals Limited (AAU) up about...