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Viewed from helicopters flying from north to south Brazil, a look at some of the billion dollar upgrades and new stadiums built to showcase FIFA World Cup 2014 matches. On the black market, ticket prices are going for a ...

Brent touches 2-week high at $110.4 on Iraq supply worries; Iraq violence could push Brent to $111.50, says analyst

(Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is spending some of the $13 billion JPMorgan Chase & Co agreed to pay to settle claims stemming from mortgage misdeeds to speed up similar punishments against other lenders, possib...

The MSCI Asia Pacific Index dropped 0.6% to 143.67 as of 9.47am

In recent days the Iraqi Kurds have been attacked by car bombs, have failed in their attempt to unilaterally sell their oil abroad, and have been forced by the ISIS offensive to stretch their security forces thin and occ...

Some of the biggest events over the past decade that made headlines and moved the market.

During the economic downturn there were more than 10,000 "excess suicides," researchers say.

Shares of Intel are popping in after-hours trading Thursday after the technology said that stronger than anticipated demand for business PCs have boosted its second quarter forecast.

An around the world look at the largest data centers.

The commodity-backed loans at the center of a probe into an alleged financial scam at a Chinese port are part of a ramp-up in offshore borrowing by Chinese companies that Beijing is looking to tamp down.

International benchmark Brent futures rise $2.63 to $112.58 a barrel, the highest level since the end of December

The most recent short interest data has just been released by the NASDAQ for the 05/30/2014 settlement date, and we here at Dividend Channel have sifted through this fresh data and screened out these five S&P 500 stocks....

The most recent short interest data has just been released by the NASDAQ for the 05/30/2014 settlement date, and we here at Dividend Channel have sifted through this fresh data and screened out these five Dow Jones Indus...

The most recent short interest data has been released by the NASDAQ for the 05/30/2014 settlement date, which shows a 4,398,675 share increase in total short interest for Prospect Capital Corporation (NASD: PSEC), to 24,...

The most recent short interest data has been released by the NASDAQ for the 05/30/2014 settlement date, which shows a 1,868,580 share increase in total short interest for HollyFrontier (NYSE: HFC), to 11,780,255, an incr...

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed the latest batch of the 26 most recent 13-F filings for the 03/31/2014 reporting period, and noticed that Microsoft (NASD: MSFT) was held by 19 of these funds. When hedge fund manage...

The most recent short interest data has been released by the NASDAQ for the 05/30/2014 settlement date, which shows a 3,430,550 share increase in total short interest for Whole Foods Market (NASD: WFM), to 28,126,073, an...

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Thursday, shares of Energy companies are outperforming other sectors, higher by 0.7%. Within that group, Diamond Offshore Drilling (NYSE: DO) and Noble Corp (NYSE: NE) are ...

Essex Property Trust (ESS) has approved a $0.36 per share annualized increase to its regular cash dividend. The second quarter dividend distribution, payable on July 15, 2014 to shareholders of record as of June 30, 2014...

The worst performing sector as of midday Thursday is the Services sector, showing a 1.1% loss. Within that group, Carmax (NYSE: KMX) and GameStop (NYSE: GME) are two large stocks that are lagging, showing a loss of 3.8% ...

More companies are resorting to an old tactic to get rid of activist investors: Pay them to go away.

Breakin? up isn?t so hard to do for some of America?s largest companies.