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Activist hedge fund manager and outspoken critic of Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) Bill Ackman said Monday that he expects authorities to arrest some people related to the company, according to an interview aired on CNBC. "I ...

Spanish house prices fell 1.6 percent in the first quarter, the slowest rate in more than three years for the market crushed during the financial and European debt crises that wracked the country for the past several yea...

Draft rules on distributing National Pension System and grievance redressal is a step forward

A benchmark study has revealed that cybercrime costs businesses nearly half a trillion dollars a year and impacts 150,000 jobs in the European Union. According to research by McAfee and the Center for Strategic and Inter...

Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ:AAPL) 7-for-1 stock split set last month takes effect Monday, so don't freak out when you see the shares trading for under $100 when the market opens. According to a report on SeekingAlpha.com last m...

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Longtime stock-market bulls are seeing even more reasons to stick to their guns.

Emerging-markets currencies climbed against the dollar on Friday after the U.S. jobs report, as traders bet improvement in the labor market in May wasn't strong enough to push the Federal Reserve to an earlier increase i...

Analysts expect inflows from overseas will continue to grow on expectations of reforms by the BJP government

The hostile play for Allergan by Valeant with an assist from Pershing Square's honcho, Bill Ackman, recalls the gunslinging eighties. When backed by Mike Milken at Drexel Burnham, you could put any company in play just s...

Photos of the 400 Richest Americans

After months of protests, Venezuela's president is even more unpopular as already scare subsidized goods continue to make their way to Colombia as part of a massive smuggling trade that moves tons of gasoline, car parts ...

Even though the U.S. Treasury Department allows intelligence agencies such as the CIA and NSA to access Americans' banking information, there are a few limits.

Just a few hours after its debut on the New York Stock Exchange, Time Inc. (NYSE:TIME) is falling steadily, if not dramatically. Shares of the U.S. magazine company were down 3.88 percent to $22.57 in midday trading on M...

Conditions, rationale and pressures point to Fed backing off near-zero interest rate policy. Therefore, it's time for investors to prepare.

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Monday, shares of Industrial companies are outperforming other sectors, up 0.2%. Within that group, Robert Half International Inc. (NYSE: RHI) and Quanta Services, Inc. (NY...

In afternoon trading on Monday, Utilities stocks are the worst performing sector, showing a 0.7% loss. Within that group, Dominion Resources Inc (NYSE: D) and PPL Corp (NYSE: PPL) are two large stocks that are lagging, s...

The US markets are mixed this afternoon, with the Dow down 0.04%, the S&P down 0.10% and the Nasdaq higher by 0.04% so far today. Some of the most actively traded stocks include Apple (AAPL) up 1.3%, Bank of America (BAC...

The weekly Investors Intelligence surveys reveal a high level of bullishness among investors, but persistent talk about complacency reveals underlying concerns still exist.

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.

The London Bullion Market Association will conduct a seminar later this month for its members t0 give feedback on the proposal for changes to the price fixing mechanism. Last week, both the London Metals Exchange and the...

It is becoming more challenging and expensive to extract hydrocarbon reserves that increasingly lie in remote locations, unconventional reservoirs, deep waters or fields that are in mature stages of production. We believ...