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Certified coffee, sometimes known as "sustainable" coffee, has a long way to go before it becomes a dominant industry norm, despite significant efforts by leading coffee companies and certifiers. Companies like Starbucks...

A few times a week, Mimoun Boutarrite makes the drive from Meknes to Ain Leuh, in Morocco's Ifrane provice. The drive takes him through the Atlas moutains and lush green fields that now support colorful fruit trees on la...

Looser corporate-governance standards are luring foreign companies to U.S. markets, a development causing concern among some large investors.

The current stalemate could keep the S&P 500 index hemmed in within a relatively narrow trading range of 2% to at most 3% in either direction from current levels, for weeks to come, market watchers say.

The twelfth trading week of 2014 comes to a close with Friday morning's momentum weakening as we approach the close.

Air Products (APD) increased the quarterly dividend on the company's common stock to 77 cents per share from 71 cents, an increase of over eight percent.

Agricultural commodities prices have been on the rise in 2014 thanks to droughts, disease and distress due to the conflict in Ukraine. Brazilian coffee, American wheat and West African cocoa rates have reached strikingly...

The March Federal Open Market Committee statement attempted to convey a status quo message, but markets apparently saw it differently and some economists believe a rate hike is still far off. Both bond and equity markets...

The PowerShares Dividend Achievers Portfolio ETF (PFM) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 327,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 46,000.  Shares of PFM were ...

As the saying goes, there are many possible reasons for an insider to sell a stock, but only one reason to buy -- they expect to make money.  So let's look at one noteworthy recent insider buy.

In trading on Friday, the SPDR S&P China ETF (GXC) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 3% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of E-House Holdings (EJ), up about 4.5% and shar...

Following the release of fourth quarter and full year results, we have modified our price estimate for Cliffs to $24.67 from $32.72. This takes into account the global economic outlook, the iron ore market outlook and co...

In trading on Friday, non-precious metals & non-metallic mining shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 2.4%.  Leading the group were shares of Silver Bull Resources (SVBL), up about 8.5% and shares of West...

The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the components of the S&P 500 index, Genworth Financial (GNW) is now the #198 analyst pick, moving up by 2 spots.         This ...

The nation's effort to stay warm during the harsh winter has left natural-gas supplies at their lowest level in more than a decade, and even as the calendar shows it is spring, some investors are wagering that prices wil...

Mt. Gox found 200,000 forgotten bitcoins, a week after the online currency exchange filed for bankruptcy claiming that all its bitcoins had been stolen, the company said in a statement Thursday.

The transaction between FTIL and India Value Fund is likely to be completed between 15-30 April, subject to shareholders approval

Looking at units outstanding versus one week prior within the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, the biggest outflow was seen in the Agribusiness ETF (MOO), where 4,000,000 units were destroyed, or a 5.7% decrease ...

Comparing units outstanding versus one week ago at the coverage universe of ETFs at ETF Channel, the biggest inflow was seen in the Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLY), which added 2,500,000 units, or a ...

In early trading on Friday, shares of VimpelCom (VIP) topped the list of the day's best performing components of the Nasdaq 100 index, trading up 2.7%.  Year to date, VimpelCom has lost about 28.8% of its value.

In early trading on Friday, shares of Exelon (EXC) topped the list of the day's best performing components of the S&P 500 index, trading up 4.4%.  Year to date, Exelon registers a 19.6% gain.