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Banking powerhouse JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) has agreed to sell its commodities business to giant Swiss commodities house Mercuria Energy Group Ltd., reports the Wall Street Journal.

George Osborne's radical plans for savers set to hit life insurance companies     

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is seeking public comment on ways to resolve a series of data problems that have hobbled efforts to see more clearly into the multitrillion-dollar swaps market.

Ophir Energy shares lost 14.8pc while the wider market was shaken by Budget measures     

U.S. stocks were flat on Wednesday, as investors await a statement from the Federal Reserve at 2 p.m Eastern, following the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC) two-day policy meeting on March 18-19.

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision and the press conference that Janet Yellen, the Fed's new chief, will give a bit later in Washington, D.C.

Steel Dynamics (STLD) declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.1150 per common share, a five percent increase over the company's 2013 quarterly rate. The dividend is payable to shareholders of record at the close of busi...

The Fed said that information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in January indicates that growth in economic activity slowed during the winter months, in part reflecting adverse weather conditions. Lab...

The iShares Global Utilities ETF (JXI) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Wednesday, with over 139,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 42,000.  Shares of JXI were down about 0....

A comprehensive report about South Africa's economic bubble and how it will pop.

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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...

U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday ahead of the Federal Reserve's monetary-policy announcement.

Marketwired, a provider of news releases such as corporate earnings and economic data, will stop providing the releases directly to high-frequency traders.

“A bet on ever-rising U.S. prosperity is very close to a sure thing.” - Warren Buffett

Container volumes at major ports remained subdued in February

A Wall Street stockbroker and a managing clerk at a law firm face federal charges the two engaged in an insider-trading scheme that netted $5.6 million in illegal profits.

The growth comes after six-eight quarters as exports rise, while some credit goes to currency and base effect

The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the components of the S&P 500 index, Kroger (KR) is now the #183 analyst pick, moving up by 1 spot.         This rank is formed...

The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the 30 stocks making up the Dow Jones Industrial Average, United Technologies (UTX) is the #2 analyst pick.  United Technologies is a...

In trading on Wednesday, precious metals shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 2.1%.  Helping drag down the group were shares of International Tower Hill Mines (THM), off about 8% and shares of Golden ...

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