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Apple was the most actively traded stock every month of 2013.

Abreast of the Market: Fund managers are shying away from U.S. IPOs after having been burned by once-highflying tech and biotech stocks. But many investors remain optimistic about the overall stock market.

As the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange sank deeper into trouble, its CEO was busy focusing on coffees and pastries for a bitcoin cafe he planned to open.

The bonds issued under this scheme are short term in nature and will mature within a year

Considering that the average student loan borrower graduates with more than $26,000 in debt, you need a strategy to keep your loan debt from ballooning out of control.

The takeover could be Ackman's biggest investment ever.

While I highly value a college education -- I have two degrees -- I despise the idea of college debt.  I graduated without this onerous burden, but few can do it today. That's why there's more than $1 trillion in studen...

Tough nosed politician Frank Underwood, the lead character in hit Netflix series House Of Cards, will stop at nothing to get what he wants. If the video streaming powerhouse's management is anything like their star HBO b...

Bitcoin faithful and some optimistic investors are hoping to prove that the obituary for Mt. Gox, the once high-flying bitcoin exchange, was written prematurely, and now they're joining together to make an 11th-hour bid ...

The US markets are higher this afternoon, with the Dow up 0.23%, the S&P gaining 0.31% and the Nasdaq up 0.48% so far today. Some stocks showing significant gains today include Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) up 12.87%, Fac...

LinkedIn's stock valuation embeds significant future profit growth, so it should be of great concern to investors that the company's growth is decelerating.

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 two noteworthy recent insider buys.

ONEOK (OKE) increased their quarterly cash dividend by 16 cents per share, or 40 percent, to 56 cents per share, effective for the first quarter 2014, resulting in an annualized cash dividend of $2.24 per share. The divi...

United Parcel Service is set to announce its first quarter 2013 earnings results on April 24 2014. We expect that the shift in customer preference towards more economical means of shipping packages will continue to negat...

Earlier this month, Boeing reported that it had delivered 161 commercial airplanes to airlines in the first quarter, up from 137 in the prior year period. We figure this increase in Boeing?s airplane deliveries will driv...

Barclays is to sell or exit most of its commodities businesses as part of an effort to shrink its investment bank and improve returns.

Excluding gains from the NBCU sale, which was executed in the first quarter of last year, GE?s earnings rose by 9% annually. This growth in the company?s earnings was driven by its industrial segment, particularly aviati...

Although the company has partnered with well known beverage companies such as Sunny Delight, Kool-Aid, Crystal Light, Welch, Ocean Spray and Country Time Lemonade, it doesn?t have an established carbonated soft drinks pa...

Bitcoin faithful burned by the high-profile and very dramatic rise and ultimate fall into bankruptcy of the once-premier trading platform for the virtual currency want to pluck its remains from a Japanese court and rebui...

When investors have least preferred the tech-heavy Nasdaq, then it has been a bad omen for stocks going forward.

The PowerShares Dynamic Energy Exploration & Production Portfolio ETF (PXE) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Monday, with over 32,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 28,000. ...

In trading on Monday, the SPDR S&P Pharmaceuticals ETF (XPH) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 1.3% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Impax Laboratories (IPXL), up abo...