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SoftBank extends Friday's gains on Loeb's stake revelation; hedge funds seen picking up automaker shares

A team from the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Instituate of Science in Israel has discovered a link between Ross William Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road who was recently arrest...

He's only 26 years old but Sebastian Vettel has already achieved so much in Formula One with four world titles under his belt and now a record-equaling ninth straight victory at the Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday.

The Nasdaq Composite Index (INDEXNASDAQ:IXIC) today broke the 4,000 mark for the first time since September 2000. Sounds high but it's still well below its peak of 5,048 during the dot-com bubble of the late '90s. It too...

Closed-end funds have always puzzled me. As vehicles that pool securities with a fixed number of shares sold like stocks, they seemed to be expensive ways of doing what open-ended mutual- and exchange-traded funds do at ...

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I've seen Carl Icahn's name in print nearly daily so I'm highly confident I can spell his surname with ease. The "highly confident" phraseology was Drexel Burnham speak, denoting its capacity to raise billions in capital...

(Kitco News) - Gold prices finished the U.S. day session slightly lower and well up from the intra-day low that notched a nearly five-month low in overnight trading. The market was pressured in part by a weekend announc...

Hewlett-Packard is due to release its fourth-quarter earnings on November 26. In the previous quarter, HP reported 8% year-over-year decline in revenues to $27.2 billion as turbulent macro economic conditions and secular...

On 11/27/13, Chesapeake Energy Corp.'s 4.50% Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock (NYSE: CHK.PRD) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $1.125, payable on 12/16/13. As a percentage of CHK.PRD's recent s...

On 11/27/13, Regions Financial Corp's 6.375% Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series A (NYSE: RF.PRA) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.3984, payable on 12/16/13. As a percentage of RF.PRA...

In trading on Monday, shares of Energy Transfer Partners LP (NYSE: ETP) touched a new 52-week high of $54.93/share. That's a 30.79% rise, or $12.93 per share from the 52-week low of $42.00 set back on 12/28/2012. That me...

These three stocks should perform well as rates rise.

Myanmar's gold production has been steadily picking up and could prove a key driver for the country's economic growth, but many gold miners are suffering from lung diseases due to inadequate equipment and antiquated prac...

Consistently, one of the more popular stocks people enter into their stock options watchlist at Stock Options Channel is Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM). So this week we highlight one interesting put contract, and one inte...

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