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Four officials at the U.S. Export-Import Bank were suspended or removed amid investigations into allegations of gifts and kickbacks, and even attempts to direct federal contracts to preferred companies, the Wall Street J...

In early trading on Tuesday, shares of Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX) topped the list of the day's best performing components of the S&P 500 index, trading up 40.9%.  Year to date, Vertex Pharmaceuticals registers a 26.3...

The best performing sector as of midday Tuesday is the Healthcare sector, higher by 1.0%. Within the sector, Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASD: VRTX) and Mylan (NASD: MYL) are two large stocks leading the way, showing a gain ...

The company's share price appears to be far removed from fundamentals, because of a low effective free float

When hedge fund manager "titans" think alike, investors are wise to pay attention. At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed 3,692 13-F filings for the 03/31/2014 reporting period, and noticed that Qualcomm (NASD: QCOM) was ...

The sugar industry will be better off being completely deregulated, rather than being held hostage to petty politicking

Boeing (BA) declared a regular quarterly dividend of seventy three (73) cents per share. The dividend is payable Sept. 5, 2014, to shareholders of record as of Aug. 8, 2014.

Total turnover in the market aggregated Rs6.9 trillion--of this 49% was accounted for by derivatives segment

This is an acknowledgement of the fact that while the company has disrupted the traditional hiring business, job listings are not going away. It is prudent of LinkedIn to make efforts to consolidate its position in this ...

Despite a poor track record, markets can rally after the budget if a concrete plan towards economic reforms is announced

The company's wireline division witnessed a marginal drop in revenues to $14.5 billion, driven by 2.7% decline in sales in the wireline business segment, partially offset by strong gains in the wireline consumer segment,...

Micron believes that the favorable long-term outlook for the memory market will fuel its growth this year and beyond. With a large and diverse memory product portfolio across a number of end-market segments, and the seco...

Notably, Bank of America has a larger loan portfolio than any of its competitors with an average of just under $920 billion in outstanding loans for the first quarter of 2014. The bank reported a steady decline in total ...

The Federal Reserve announced that it will continue tapering its current QE program at the June 17–18 policy meeting.  Market reaction was swift. Fearing that the Fed has remained too accommodative for too long and th...

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The iShares Global Industrials ETF (EXI) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Tuesday, with over 222,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 33,000.  Shares of EXI were up about 0.1%...

In trading on Tuesday, the First Trust NYSE Arca Biotechnology Index Fund ETF (FBT) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 2.6% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Vertex Pha...

In trading on Tuesday, precious metals shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 1.4%.  Helping drag down the group were shares of North American Palladium (PAL), off about 7.9% and shares of Rio Alto Mini...

In trading on Tuesday, general contractors & builders shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 2.5%.  Leading the group were shares of William Lyon Homes (WLH), up about 6.6% and shares of Ryland Group (RYL)...

A new revolutionary camera lens will bring some features to iPhone camera similar to traditional high end DSLR cameras.

Sebi directs stock exchanges to allow the final delisting only after ensuring that the process has been fair and transparent

The stock market took a rest on Monday, despite a 4.9% increase in existing home sales, as volatility was low, with the advance/decline ratios neutral. The preliminary Euro zone manufacturing index came in weaker than ex...