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American companies are conducting a record amount of business in Chinese yuan, looking to benefit from cost advantages over dollar transactions.

In the latest look at the underlying components of the S&P 500 ordered by largest market capitalization, Western Digital Corp. (NASD: WDC) has taken over the #200 spot from Marathon Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: MPC), according...

Key takeaways from important sectors as enumerated by finance minister Arun Jaitley in his maiden budget

Govt must roll out supportive policies crucial to improving the corporate sector's health, reviving economic growth and attracting FDI, the director of corporate ratings at S&P's said

(Kitco News) - Gold prices ended the U.S. day session with moderate gains Wednesday and showed a muted reaction to the afternoon release of the latest minutes of the FOMC meeting of the Federal Reserve. Chart-based buyi...

The best performing sector as of midday Thursday is the Utilities sector, up 0.5%. Within that group, NiSource (NYSE: NI) and AGL Resources (NYSE: GAS) are two large stocks leading the way, showing a gain of 1.2% and 1.2...

Looking at the sectors faring worst as of midday Thursday, shares of Services companies are underperforming other sectors, showing a 0.8% loss. Within that group, Tractor Supply (NASD: TSCO) and CBS Corp (NYSE: CBS) are ...

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, in trading on Thursday, shares of Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE: LXK) were yielding above the 3% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $1....

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, in trading on Thursday, shares of Cisco Systems (NASD: CSCO) were yielding above the 3% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $0.76), with the...

CVS Caremark (CVS) has approved a quarterly dividend of $0.275 (27.5 cents) per share on the corporation's common stock. The dividend is payable on August 1, 2014, to holders of record on July 21, 2014.

Bargain hunters are wise to pay careful attention to insider buying, because although there are many various reasons for an insider to sell a stock, presumably the only reason they would use their hard-earned cash to mak...

Freeport McMoran Copper & Gold Inc. has been involved in a stand-off with the Indonesian government over a tax on mineral exports for a while now. The Indonesian government had earlier banned unprocessed mineral exports ...

Earlier this week, State Street settled three lawsuits ? one by investors and two others by the custody bank?s employees ? seeking damages for the huge losses shareholders incurred when the bank?s share price tanked duri...

Adobe has recently discontinued the sale of Creative Suite 6, and now is solely focusing on licensing Creative Cloud. While CS was Adobe?s flagship product for over a decade, and offered to a user as packaged software wi...

China Mobile is likely to increase subsidies on its 4G mobile handsets later this year by gradually reducing its 3G handset subsidies, according to a recent Chinese media report. The report also stated that the carrier i...

Stocks managed a nice recovery on Wednesday and the FOMC minutes helped stocks close on a firm note. The small-cap indices, like the Russell 2000 had the smallest gains, up just 0.14%. A better performance by these more ...

PPF investment has been increased from `1 lakh to `1.5 lakh. The deduction on home loan interest for self-occupied house has gone up to `1.5 lakh

The iShares MSCI Belgium Capped ETF (EWK) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Thursday, with over 1.3 million shares traded versus three month average volume of about 64,000.  Shares of EWK were down ab...

In trading on Thursday, the Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 1.6% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Golden Star Resources (GSS), up abou...

In trading on Thursday, rubber & plastics shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 2.6%.  Helping drag down the group were shares of China XD Plastics Company (CXDC), down about 25.6% and shares of Kraton...

In trading on Thursday, precious metals shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 0.7%.  Leading the group were shares of Golden Star Resources (GSS), up about 6.2% and shares of Endeavour Silver (EXK) up abo...

The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the 30 stocks making up the Dow Jones Industrial Average, AT&T (T) is the #27 analyst pick.  Within the broader S&P 500, when compone...