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Myanmar will allow some foreign banks to operate in a limited scope next year, representing the latest move of the impoverished Southeast Asian nation's bid to open its financial sector.

SAC Capital placed such importance on information gathered from company executives when deciding which stocks to buy or sell that it offered training sessions led by 'intelligence professionals' on how to use meetings to...

On Monday in Brooklyn, workers from a handful of fast food chains including McDonald's, Wendy's and Domino's Pizza walked out of the job over what they call poverty wages.

SINA is one of the largest online media portals in China, providing users with a broad selection of information, communications and entertainment choices, while providing advertisers and content holders with a massive au...

High-ranking employees at Bernard L. Madoff's securities firms allegedly used a Yiddish vulgarity to describe the process of entering fake trades in some customer accounts after the fact, according to court testimony.

Mortgage REITs have long been favorites of dividend investors, and especially before taper concerns came back into the picture. Securities in this space often pay double-digit yields, and with such a sluggish market for ...

Here's a preview of this week's IBTimes Magazine: One Millionaire's Audacious Plan To build a high-end, self-contained city in a conflict zone. Kate Shuttleworth visits the mega-development known as Rawabi under construc...

Analysts are looking for decreased profit for American Eagle Outfitters when the company reports its results for the third quarter on Friday, December 6, 2013. American Eagle reported profit of 41 cents a year ago, but t...

Not surprisingly, Hulu is in discussion with several pay-TV service providers to bundle its service, or make it available on their set-top boxes. Netflix has been making a similar effort of partnering with Comcast (read ...

Upcoming national regulatory changes are expected to dramatically alter cities' pension reporting and accounting procedures, which will likely decrease funding for city pension plans that are already running low on cash....

The Federal Reserve?s Beige Book, a collection of qualitative information from the 12 Federal Reserve Districts, painted a continued boring color for the U.S. economy. Just like previous reports, it said that the economy...

Alliance Fiber Optic was profiled back on August 2, and since that time, the stock rose as much as 45%, but has fallen all the way back to the original price. The ride isn't over for this fiber optic play and it is again...

In today's choppy market, it pays not to chase stocks, but instead to let stocks come to you via orderly and constructive pullbacks and buy them as they emerge from low risk buy points.

Geron Corporation (GERN) is edging higher, and was up 26 cents, or 4.7%, on 3.3 million shares on Wednesday. It has had 5 waves up, with the 5th being a spike-up and then pullback. It is in a bullish consolidation, and o...

IFC is in talks with the govt 'to get the right waivers and approvals' for the onshore rupee-bond issue

Markets welcome exit polls predicting a likely victory for the BJP in four states, or at least three out of four states

As the year wraps up, ETF Channel has once again sorted through more than 800 exchange-traded funds to find funds with significant year-to-date returns coupled with low expense ratios. For purposes of the article, we loo...

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This might seem like an unusual time to launch a blog about risk. Despite the occasional market wobble, it appears that investors are finally reaping the rewards of all the painful economic changes they have endured sinc...

Two top Wall Street banks opened coverage of digital currency bitcoin on Thursday, mulling its potential as a serious global currency. Bank of America Merrill Lynch's currency strategist David Woo published a report this...

Thomas H. Forester, CFA, Chief Investment Officer, Forester Capital Management