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According to one analyst, Alibaba's position as a large private company ready to go public makes it an ideal Snapchat buyer -- and its Yahoo and Marissa Mayer connection doesn't hurt, either.

On 1/16/14, SLM Corp.'s 6.97% Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock, Series A (NASD: SLMAP) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.8712, payable on 1/31/14. As a percentage of SLMAP's recent share price...

The U.S. Gulf of Mexico has proved to be a bright spot for oilfield services companies over the last year or so, owing to resurgent drilling activity and an increase in capital spending in the region. Many large oilfield...

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and state attorneys general are expanding a probe of for-profit colleges and their student lending practices.

Asian markets open lower tracking losses in US; retail inflation slows to a 3-month low of 9.87% in December

Bottled water is expected to become the largest segment of the U.S. liquid refreshment beverage market by the end of this decade, toppling sales of CSDs, and Coca-Cola will look to advance in this budding segment in orde...

Although EA missed an opportunity to gain market share in the FPS market, we still believe that its sports based franchises and digital monetizing strategy will hold it in good stead.

The billionaire CEO said. "The word 'recall' needs to be recalled."

Intel's giving investors something to get excited about again.

The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA) stock has plunged just hours after smoke was reported coming from a main battery onboard a 787 Dreamliner. Japan Airlines Co. Ltd (TYO:9201) said that a maintenance crew at Narita Airport saw...

The U.S. Medicare program has been overpaying for penis pumps. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Monday that Medicare paid $172 million between 2006 and 2011 on penis pumps for patients. Yearly cla...

(Kitco News) - Senior gold producer Goldcorp Inc.'s (TSX:G)(NYSE:GG) C$2.6 billion bid for Quebec-based Osisko Mining Corp. (TSX:OSK) served a strong reminder that Quebec is still seen as a good mining jurisdiction, sai...

Debt of construction firms, power generators and telecom companies has risen the sharpest in last three fiscal years

Zambian officials said on Monday that they hope to standardize mining practices between all African countries. This comes after a string of battles between Zambia, the continent's largest copper producer, and foreign com...

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has acquired Nest Labs, a tech company known for designing programmable and Internet-connected thermostats and smoke detectors, for $3.2 billion. It's the second-biggest acquisition the comapny ...

China had hoped Shanghai's new free-trade zone (FTZ) would someday make the city an international financial hub on par with Hong Kong. Well, regulation delay isn't exactly the way to expedite the process. Foreign banks t...

There's movement in the mining market, not that there is reason to get overly excited, just yet.

Some people are just fast-food junkies. Publications like QSRMagazine.com exist to feed that habit. In that context, the magazine published a list of the top 8 trends to watch for in 2014. Here, in a condensed version, i...

Here is another dividend-payer with good value credentials--a silver producer whose shares look like they've experienced exhaustion selling, and are now bullishly diverging from the price of silver.

Monday was the worst day for the stock market since last November as the Spyder Trust (SPY) was down 1.33%. This was better than the 2% or greater declines in the Philadelphia Housing and Oil Service sectors. The market ...

The world's most-watched precious metal has made a modest comeback in early 2014, weeks after it suffered its worst price decline in 32 years last year.

For GAIL (India), an impending increase in gas price is not good news as it consumes gas to produce LPG and petrochemicals