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TTK Prestige's operating profit margin fell 232 basis points to 12.9%, the lowest in four years, owing to its inability to pass on cost increases

Shares fall after regulator revokes its good manufacturing practice certificate for Wockhardt's Aurangabad facility

It's not always easy to decipher how Nobel-prize winning research translates into everyday money management.

Dividends are particularly important for investors to consider, because historically speaking dividends have provided a considerable share of the stock market's total return. To illustrate, suppose for example you purcha...

A meeting between President Obama and Congress has reportedly been postponed, sending stocks off their highs for the day. The meeting was supposed to take place at 3pm today in Washington. The White House is saying it wa...

Today, Enterprise Products Partners (EPD) announced that the board of directors of its general partner declared an increase in the quarterly cash distribution paid to partners to 69 cents per common unit. This distributi...

The iShares U.S. Utilities ETF (IDU) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Monday, with over 3.3 million shares traded versus three month average volume of about 371,000. Shares of IDU were down about 1% o...

Bargain hunters are wise to pay careful attention to insider buying, because although there are many various reasons for an insider to sell a stock, presumably the only reason they would use their hard-earned dollars to ...

In trading on Monday, shares of Apache Corp. (NYSE: APA) touched a new 52-week high of $89.33/share. That's a 31.54% rise, or $21.42 per share from the 52-week low of $67.91 set back on 04/22/2013. That means at today's ...

In trading on Monday, general contractors & builders shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 1.8%. Helping drag down the group were shares of William Lyon Homes (WLH), off about 3% and shares of Homex Dev...

In trading on Monday, entertainment shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 1.7%. Leading the group were shares of FAB Universal (FU), up about 24.3% and shares of Bona Film Group Limited (BONA) up about 7.2...

In trading on Monday, the SPDR S&P Metals and Mining ETF (XME) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 0.7% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of AK Steel Holding (AKS), up about ...

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Looking back to 31 days ago, Stratasys, Ltd. (NASD: SSYS) priced a 4,500,000 share secondary stock offering at $93.00 per share. Buyers in that offering made a considerable investment into the company, expecting that the...

IndusInd bank grew its loans 24% from a year ago, trumping the industry credit growth

Deutsche Bank initiated Discover Financial Services (DFS) with a rating of Buy and a target price of $62 per share. Shares of DFS are relatively flat on the day.