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The Dakar Rally claims another victim Friday with organizers announcing the death of Belgian Eric Palante, a competitor in the motorbikes section.

China is gearing up for a spike in nonperforming loans, endorsing a range of options to clean up the banks and experimenting with ways for lenders to squeeze value from debts gone bad.

China's export growth slowed down more than was expected last month because of a higher comparison base a year earlier and a clampdown on speculative activities dressed up as export deals, thus failing to meet the offici...

Wall Street is high on Wells Fargo, expecting it to report earnings that are up 8% from a year ago when it reports its fourth-quarter earnings on Tuesday, January 14, 2014. The consensus estimate is 98 cents per share, u...

Wall Street is optimistic about Linear Technology, which is slated to report its second quarter results on Tuesday, January 14, 2014. Analysts project a profit of 44 cents a share, a rise from 40 cents per share a year a...

American Eagle is working hard to expand its fashion category, which does not contribute much to its revenues at the moment, but has been performing well. Moreover, despite the retailer's problems, its direct-to-consumer...

Alcoa witnessed robust global growth in the aerospace segment to the tune of 9-10%. The bulk of this growth came due to demand for commercial planes rather than civilian aircraft. Going forward, Alcoa predicts a constant...

Global equity markets saw a marked turnaround from the extremely slow Q3 to record the strongest quarter in three years for Q4 2013, according to data compiled by Thomson Reuters. Companies across the globe raised $264....

(Kitco News) - Gold prices may try to rise above $1,250 an ounce next week after rallying Friday following a dismal U.S. jobs report.

We remain buyers of JPM shares despite the negative impact on fourth quarter earnings of the Madoff settlement as we think investors are willing to trade the near-term litigation charges for better earnings visibility an...

Nonfarm payrolls expanded by a meager 74,000 in December, but the unemployment rate dropped a significant 0.3 percentage points to 6.7%. There were no revisions to October (stayed at +200,000), but November was revised u...

10 Largest Private Equity Buyout Funds Closed. (source: Preqin)

Private equity shops are getting ready to deploy billions in fresh capital as fundraising reached $169 billion in 2013.

Suppose you made a 20-year forecast about the economic environment of your business. And then, after more than 20 years, you revisited your old forecast. Would you learn anything? I certainly did.

(Kitco News) - With the New Year comes new resolutions, some resolve to quit smoking, some vow to lose weight - but what about traders? Kitco News asked five of our regularly featured traders what their resolutions are ...

Cash Kings newcomer Wiz Khalifa has turned his affection for marijuana into a moneymaking marketing tool -- and in the process, transformed himself into a lucrative lifestyle brand. Here are some of his hottest-selling i...

For some aggressive investors, buying companies that have anything to do with marijuana distribution is more than a slow burn of an idea: It's one of the hottest investment themes of the moment.

A study released this week revealed that almost half of Americans tune in to a second device while watching television. The study was released at this week's International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas by its pr...

Fresh off Thursday's amazing 280% stock pop, Intercept defied gravity again on Friday, surging another 50% in morning trading.

H-P stands to benefit from an unwinding of pessimism among option traders and analysts.Speculators wanting to wager on additional upside for Hewlett-Packard may wish to consider buying the stock's in-the-money March 23 c...

US jobs market surprisingly weak in December; US treasury bond yields fall

Consumer prices in Brazil grew faster in 2013 than analysts had expected, confirming fears about the country's economic future. This is not a welcome report for a nation with one of the world's highest interest rates and...