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As activist hedge funds step up their hunt for new targets, companies are bolstering their defenses.

This year was always going to be about the central banks and their interest rate decisions. So far, no asset class can be disappointed, because tagging along with central bank decisions is volatility, a word that could n...

Legal trouble in itself is not something specific to just Deutsche Bank, as the entire banking sector has been dealing with this issue for a while now. But what makes things worse for the bank when compared to its Americ...

President Barack Obama and his handlers spent months signaling that the president intends to use his "pen" and his "phone" to implement a "Year of Action," and that if Congress doesn't like it, it can pucker up for his d...

Australia's James Packer dumped his dad's old-line media businesses and rolled the dice on casinos. He got killed, but then his luck turned.

Even Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel's car gets engine trouble but could his testing problems point to Red Bull unreliability?

The Elliott Wave theory was put forth by Ralph Nelson Elliott back in the 1930s. To put it briefly, all stock market movements can be seen to unfold in cycles of eight waves. Five of these in general take the price in th...

(Kitco News) - Comex gold futures ended the U.S. day session with moderate gains Wednesday on short covering and bargain hunting following selling pressure on Monday and Tuesday. Importantly, there was also some safe-ha...

During his final Federal Open Market Committee meeting as chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke and co continued on the path set in December, again cutting back asset purchases.

As expected, the U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday voted unanimously to reduce asset purchases on Feb. 1 by another $10 billion a month to $65 billion. The Fed said information received since the Federal Open Market Comm...

U.S. stocks tumbled on Wednesday, with the Dow dropping as much as 174 points in early trading, as investors continued to weigh fears in emerging markets and await a decision from the Federal Reserve on whether the centr...

Investors staged a broad retreat from risky investments, taking U.S. stocks lower, as efforts to halt a selloff in emerging-market currencies failed.

Better ratings at media networks led to 24% jump in the net income for the company in the previous quarter. We expect Viacom to benefit from the improved ratings and see higher advertising revenues in Q1 2014 as well.

We expect Amazon's sales to grow faster than that of the online retail industry, due to its market leading position and supply chain efficiency. In addition, we expect some support from the continued expansion of web ser...

Two major emerging-market central banks tried and failed to stem slides in their currencies with surprise interest-rate increases, reigniting a wave of selling across global markets.

During the fourth quarter, Yahoo acquired eight companies to strengthen its product, content offerings and technology. The company also attracted a record number of users to its properties during the quarter. We believe ...

To be sure, AT&T is still lagging behind Verizon in subscriber additions (Verizon added more than twice as many postpaid subscribers as AT&T in 2013), but its subscriber patterns are showing signs of stabilizing as the L...

Sotheby's, the global art auction house that has been around since 1744, announced plans to issue a special dividend and a buyback program that should return $325 million to shareholders this year, but activists hedge fu...

Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' fetched almost $120 million at Sotheby's auction of impressionist, modern, and contemporary art, in New York City. The masterpiece is one of four versions created by Munch, and the only one th...

Commodities have started to seriously bore Wall Street. That's because commodity prices are expected to hold steady -- at best -- this year and many are expected to fall. Production is generally seen as keeping pace with...

Under fire from several regulators, U.S. banks increasingly are rejecting customers involved in activities that are legal but might attract government scrutiny, such as medical marijuana businesses and payday lenders.

China's financial market just narrowly dodged a bullet, but the $1.7 trillion trust industry (the fastest-growing segment of the shadow-banking system) will continue to experience disruptions in the year ahead.