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Momentum stocks like Netflix, Facebook and Priceline lost steam on Friday, and coupled with disappointing jobs numbers, led the U.S. equity markets to close the week with a thud.

We believe that much of the attraction for long-term shareholders isn?t so much the return of capital in the near term, as the reorganization that Juniper is undertaking to reduce expenses and grow more focused. Repurcha...

Branding firm Moosylvania asked 1,000 people age 13 to 33 to name their three favorite brands. Of the 620 brands mentioned 62 came up five or more times. Apple was by far the most popular response, claiming 7.5% of the 3...

In afternoon trading on Friday, Utilities stocks are the best performing sector, higher by 0.6%. Within that group, NRG Energy (NYSE: NRG) and Exelon (NYSE: EXC) are two of the day's stand-outs, showing a gain of 2.2% ...

Nasdaq Composite tumbles 2.7% as technology shares slump; S&P 500 Index falls 1.3% to 1,865.10

Briton and Nico Rosberg pick up where they left off in Malaysia completing another one-two for Mercedes in Friday's practice session ahead of Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix.

Janet Yellen was sworn in as Federal Reserve chair on Feb. 3, 2014. On March 18 and 19, she led her first Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. The meetings are about changes in Fed policy, based on the latest ec...

The much-anticipated initial public offering of Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group could be a double-edged sword for the company: Investors are drooling for a piece of the action in that country's burgeoning online pay...

GrubHub Inc., the company behind popular food delivery websites and apps like Seamless and GrubHub, made its initial public offering Friday, hitting the New York Stock exchange under the ticker "GRUB." The stock opened a...

The fourteenth trading week of 2014 comes to a close with US Markets lower in early afternoon trading.  Big names such as Amazon.com, Google, and Tesla are contributing to the Nasdaq's now 2.25% drop on the day.

Hear ye, hear ye! Emerging market assets have recovered! The MSCI EM Index, a free float weighted equity index of emerging markets equities is almost unchanged year to date. Similarly, EM bonds have recovered with the iS...

The Marcellus is Chesapeake's single largest hydrocarbon play, contributing around 147,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (mboe/d) of the company's total production (oil and gas) during Q4 2013.

Based on our estimates that the bank will report a net income of $3.8 billion this year, the proposed plan represents a payout ratio between 45-50% for this year.

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...

MSC Industrial Direct (MSM) has declared a cash dividend of $0.33 per share. The $0.33 dividend is payable on April 22, 2014 to shareholders of record at the close of business on April 8, 2014.

The PowerShares S&P 500 High Dividend Portfolio ETF (SPHD) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 344,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 25,000.  Shares of SPHD ...

The switch to CPI means the rupee was overvalued by around 4% in March, based on what the RBI said was a REER of 104.20

The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the components of the S&P 500 index, Fluor (FLR) is now the #19 analyst pick, moving up by 1 spot.

The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the 30 stocks making up the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Travelers Companies (TRV) is the #19 analyst pick.  Within the broader S&P ...

(Reuters) - U.S. employers maintained a solid pace of hiring for a second straight month in March, providing further evidence the economy was shifting into higher gear after being held back by a brutally cold winter. Non...

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, does it make a sound? That fun thought experiment, one you likely heard as a kid, actually has a corollary in investing: The more you "know" about investing, the more l...

Looking at units outstanding versus one week prior within the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, the biggest outflow was seen in the Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLF), where 22,800,000 units were destroyed, o...