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As we watch wireless companies consolidate, the question of whether Telephone & Data Systems will sell has often emerged.

In a Roth conversion, you take funds out of a traditional pre-tax individual retirement account, pay the federal, state and local income taxes owed and deposit the funds in a Roth IRA, where your savings grow tax free. I...

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

Macy's sees holiday season sales increase, but is cutting 2,500 positions and shuttering five stores in an attempt to cut costs.

"Raw sugar prices on ICE slumped to a 3-1/2 year trough on Wednesday, extending a long-term downtrend on heavy technical selling and bearish options dealings."

Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory observed what they describe as the death of a star at the hands of black hole. A flare seen in a dwarf galaxy 800 million light-years from Earth, inside the Abell 1795 g...

If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. Unless you're a struggling retail brand.

This holiday season, all eyes are on J.C. Penney, Sears, The Gap and Uniqlo.

Gold prices are falling, and yet investors and collectors can't seem to buy enough of the precious metal. Gold prices fell to a six-month low heading into 2014 (standing at $1,228.60 per ounce Wednesday morning). On Wedn...

Given the magnitude of the decline, which pushed Samsung's operating profits down to its lowest level in over a year, it is likely that sales in the company's handset division were somewhat subdued by heightened competit...

(Kitco News) - Gold prices ended the U.S. day session moderately lower Wednesday, pressured by a higher U.S. dollar index and on fresh, upbeat U.S. economic data. February gold was last down $9.20 at $1,220.40 an ounce....

Combined with the fact that a large part of this settlement does not entail a tax benefit, JPMorgan will see a $850 million reduction in its results for the fourth quarter and full-year 2013, which it releases on January...

Micron claims that the industry fundamentals for both DRAM & NAND products remain solid, and it is getting strong demand signals from a majority of its customers. With a large and diverse memory product portfolio across ...

The earnings revision indices of MSCI and IBES have been trending up since last quarter

The leaders for 2014 will look a lot like last year's. U.S. and developed market foreign equities should continue to outperform.

Investors were eager to punish stocks that didn't keep up with the bull market of 2013 -- but these stocks, fund managers say, were punished for no good reason and are poised for an upswing in 2014.

Overall demand growth for oil products slowed to 0.5% due to hikes in diesel prices and reduction in LPG subsidies

Demand has remained weak and there is little to suggest a sharp improvement in the trend

JPMorgan Chase investors are hoping 2014 is less about lawsuits and settlements and more about revenue and profits.

2013 saw funds flowing out of emerging market assets and US bonds into developed market equities

Maybe it's just the cool-factor of a startup named by an anagram of its founders name but New Relic, the high-aiming software monitoring company, just keeps gaining attention. Its founder and CEO (and said donator of the...

The current AMSI reading of 66, when taking into account the interaction of its component parts, indicates growing market complacency, which is indicative of generally increasing market risk.