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U.S. stocks are attempting to break above their key resistance levels after last week's failed breakout.

India's overnight interbank borrowing rate has slid to 7.1% from 9% at the end of last month

Entrepreneurs and wealthy families are beating private-equity firms in Europe at their own game--leveraged buyouts.

The worst performing sector as of midday Friday is the Energy sector, showing a 0.3% loss. Within that group, Diamond Offshore Drilling (NYSE: DO) and Cameron International (NYSE: CAM) are two of the day's laggards, show...

In trading on Friday, shares of BB&T Corp.'s Series F Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock (NYSE: BBT.PRF) were yielding above the 6% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $1.30), with shares changing h...

The long struggling stock -- down more than 50% year-to-date and more than 70% year-over-year -- traded between $3.59 and $3.90 in the first moments of trading, hitting a new 52-week low.

While revenue growth will be under tremendous pressure, closing stores that do not generate significant foot traffic will help the company improve its operating margins. To diminish the intensity of revenue decline, the ...

Trading volumes tend to wane just before the start of holiday weekends, but activity in Facebook options on this Friday before Memorial Day weekend is ticking just above its average daily level.

GMO's Jeremy Grantham confirms his firm's study of remarkable long-term performance from several investment patterns, but notes investors refusal to accept them as they seem too simple.

From oil sanctions and gold bans to the stuxnet worm that crippled Iran's centrifuges, the U.S. has been waging a persistent financial war on the Islamic Republic.

The best ways to buy gold.

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Friday, shares of Technology & Communications companies are outperforming other sectors, up 0.9%. Within the sector, HP (NYSE: HPQ) and TripAdvisor (NASD: TRIP) are two lar...

The Home Depot (HD), the world's largest home improvement retailer, announced that its board of directors declared a first quarter cash dividend of 47 cents per share. The dividend is payable on June 19, 2014, to shareho...

Sex, drugs and smuggling could give Italy's economy a much-needed economic boost this year, as national statisticians incorporate the country's underground markets into its calculations.

A study of analyst recommendations at the major brokerages shows that Tesoro Corporation (NYSE: TSO) is the #57 broker analyst pick among those stocks screened by The Online Investor for strong stock buyback activity. To...

Dream Global Real Estate Investment Trust (Toronto: DRG-UN) has been named as a Top 25 dividend stock, according the most recent Canada Stock Channel ''DividendRank'' report. The report noted that among the coverage univ...

Samsung is jumping on the sapphire band wagon and is not going to let Apple get an edge.

Fees were raised for mutual funds, stock exchanges, brokers, listed and to-be-listed companies for filing of offer documents, rights issues and takeovers

The Fed is waging a battle against deflation. Deflation means depression. The Fed's objective is to create inflation. Our risk is that they do not succeed. Unfortunately, our risk is also that they do succeed.

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.

Since 2010, automotive carloads have shown the highest increase compared to other segments like Coal, Agricultural, Chemicals, Metals & Construction, Forest Products and Intermodal. With its vast network in eastern U.S.,...

Shares tumbled by more than 15% (after hours) as the retailer reported 13% fall in its comparable sales and guided a loss of $0.55-$0.61 per share for the second quarter, which was worse than analysts' expectation of $0....