Market News

Former SAC Capital portfolio manager Mathew Martoma was found guilty of insider trading after failing to settle with federal investigators, netting another victory for US attorney Preet Bharara, putting billionaire Steve...

Sulaiman Famro left his native Nigeria in the 1970s to become an engineer. Now in his 60s, he claims his invention could save the country billions. "No doubt, Nigeria is blessed with huge human and natural resources, but...

Bargain hunters are wise to pay careful attention to insider buying, because although there are many various reasons for an insider to sell a stock, presumably the only reason they would use their hard-earned cash to mak...

Thursdays' nice rebound in the stock market has likely put some bearish traders on edge going into Friday's job report. If it were not for the jobs report, one would typically expect the rebound to go a bit further and t...

It's hard to see what strategic move Amazon could make that would allow for the profit growth its valuation implies.

If option bulls and shorts throw in the towel, technical outperformer CSIQ could run higher.

Complaints from analysts are that the divergent jobs reports are tricky to interpret, too easy to misread in one direction or the other. Okay then, let's look at this week's other economic reports, which are less tricky ...

Since interest rates have been falling for 30 years, most of the current bond portfolio managers have no experience in this environment.

(Kitco News) - Economic data releases out of China and Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen’s first congressional appearance since being sworn in Feb. 3 could influence gold prices next week.

Ramped-up bidding activity on TripAdvisor's meta platform, broader roll-out of the Expedia Traveler Preference program, and rapid growth in advertising and media revenue from the newly acquired Trivago, helped Expedia to...

While market valuation is certainly under doubt, Pandora's transformation into profitable business is encouraging considering the losses it experienced in the past few years.

While the revenues increased by 5% to $8.57 billion, the operating income declined 9% to $1.84 billion as a result of a 12% increase in programming expenses.

L'Oréal SA is scheduled to report its full fiscal 2013 earnings after the close of the Euronext Paris exchange on February 10. The company is the world’s largest cosmetics manufacturer, with a market capitalization of...

(Kitco News) - Disappointing jobs growth in the U.S. during the last two months likely was not enough to dissuade the Federal Open Market Committee from tapering the bond-buying program known as quantitative easing, econ...

Germany's constitutional court has referred the decision on the legality of the European Central Bank's bond-purchase program to the European Court of Justice, the court said.

Time is money, according to the business dictum. When it comes to retirement, it's literally true.

Valuation makes a compelling case to buy. Since 2009, ConAgra has averaged a price-earnings multiple of 15.9. Multiplied by the $2.34 EPS forecast, that would yield a $37.20 stock price.

The SEC's civil case against hedge-fund billionaire Steven A. Cohen is likely to proceed following guilty verdicts against senior SAC employees Michael Steinberg and Mathew Martoma.

While Twitter and LinkedIn may not be running quite as fast as Facebook, the recent sell-off may be premature.

A look at what will get you unfriended, unliked, and ignored on social networking sites like Twitter this year. Results are from a survey of 3,000 social networking specialists conducted by marketing firm SocialToaster i...

In trading on Friday, grocery & drug stores shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 1%. Helping drag down the group were shares of Fairway Group Holdings (FWM), down about 28.3% and shares of The Pantry (...

In trading on Friday, biotechnology shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 3.8%. Leading the group were shares of Cytokinetics (CYTK), up about 32.9% and shares of Sunesis Pharmaceuticals (SNSS) up about 16...