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Duke Energy declared a quarterly cash dividend on its common stock of $0.795 per share, an increase of $0.015 per share or about 2 percent. The dividend is payable on Sept. 16, 2014, to shareholders of record at the clos...

With the massive monetary expansion since the 2008 crisis, why isn't inflation higher than it is? There is a very good reason for this.

Gamblers are turning away from casinos and toward soccer fields, at least this month. Macau's monthly casino revenue dropped 3.7 percent to $3.4 billion (27 billion patacas) in June, its first drop in five years, as high...

If you've been doubting whether the stock market is experiencing a bubble, these 23 terrifying charts will put those doubts to rest.

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed 3,692 13-F filings for the 06/30/2014 reporting period, and looked at the various S&P 500 components held by each of these reporting hedge funds and other 13-F filers. For each compo...

Opinions are divided on the issue of whether the reverse book-building process should continue to be used for determining the price for delisting

In afternoon trading on Tuesday, Healthcare stocks are the best performing sector, up 1.5%. Within that group, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (NASD: REGN) and Alexion Pharmaceuticals (NASD: ALXN) are two of the day's stand-ou...

The worst performing sector as of midday Tuesday is the Utilities sector, showing a 0.7% loss. Within that group, Exelon (NYSE: EXC) and NRG Energy (NYSE: NRG) are two of the day's laggards, showing a loss of 2.3% and 1....

A major challenge for the govt will be to get a firm hold over the country's informal finance market, experts say

The French bank sought to allay concerns about its ability to weather a $9 billion settlement with U.S. authorities, saying it has ample cash to cover penalties and faces no urgency to boost its capital cushion.

During Schlumberger's daylong session for Wall Street, the stock spiked by 6% in a couple of hours. One analyst jumped in and raised his price target from $109 to $160. I'm at $180 a couple of years out.

The settlement is yet another victory for the DOJ, which has been doggedly pursuing the issue of problematic mortgage practices by the country's lenders - something that was a major factor responsible for the downturn of...

Morgan Stanley's 16,000-plus financial advisers will soon be allowed to craft their own 140-character messages on their official firm Twitter accounts.

Although the project is significantly smaller than some of First Solar's North American projects, we believe that it should allow the company to gain a foothold in Chile's nascent, yet promising solar market.

Inmobiliaria Carso will pay AT&T $5.57 billion for its 8.3% stake, of which $4.57 billion will be paid at the close of the deal and the remaining $1 billion within the subsequent 60 days. The cash generated from this sal...

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 PowerShares S&P 500 High Dividend Portfolio ETF (SPHD) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Tuesday, with over 269,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 43,000.  Shares of SPHD...

In trading on Tuesday, the iShares MSCI Frontier 100 ETF (FM) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 2.9% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of BBVA Banco Frances (BFR), up abo...

In trading on Tuesday, rental, leasing, & royalty shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 0.5%.  Helping drag down the group were shares of Mesa Royalty Trust (MTR), off about 3.3% and shares of Research...

In trading on Tuesday, computers shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 2%.  Leading the group were shares of 3D Systems (DDD), up about 12.2% and shares of Stratasys (SSYS) up about 9.7% on the day.

Morgan Stanley India's managing director says India is definitely a market to be bought on dips

Foreign funds agree to pay a 7 bps premium for the right to buy Rs5,510 crore worth of govt debt with bids totalling Rs6,809 crore