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Barclays' legal argument, in its motion to dismiss "dark pool" fraud charges filed by New York's attorney general, may come back to haunt it.

(Reuters) - Less than a week before Argentina could default on its sovereign bonds, the government and holdout creditors have yet to meet face-to-face despite an urgent plea from the U.S. court-appointed mediator on Thur...

(Reuters) - A private trading venue owned by Citigroup (C.N) will pay a $5 million penalty to settle charges that it failed to protect customers' data, marking the latest case in a crackdown by U.S. regulators over alleg...

Zillow Inc. (NASDAQ:Z) is working on a $2 billion deal to purchase its closest rival Trulia Inc. (NASDAQ:TRLA), according to reports Thursday.

President Obama this week joined the political discussion that's been brewing for some time in Washington about 'inversions', the latest wonky word to emerge from the intersection of Washing and Wall Street. On Thursday,...

Greenlight Capital's David Einhorn laments that bad stocks he's betting against are getting bought out at rich premiums.

Is the stock market going to “correct” in the near future?  Frankly, I don’t know and nobody else does either.  I do know market history – and history would indicate that small capitalization stock values, in p...

In my 20 years of managing high yield bond investments, I’ve never seen so many signals that scream caution.  Desperate to find yield, investors have poured billions into high yield bond funds and ETFs driving the yie...

The most recent short interest data has just been released by the NASDAQ for the 07/15/2014 settlement date, and we here at Dividend Channel have sifted through this fresh data and screened out these five S&P 500 stocks....

In afternoon trading on Friday, Utilities stocks are the worst performing sector, showing a 0.9% loss. Within that group, American Electric Power Company, (NYSE: AEP) and DTE Energy (NYSE: DTE) are two large stocks that ...

In afternoon trading on Friday, Healthcare stocks are the best performing sector, losing just 0.2%. Within that group, Tenet Healthcare (NYSE: THC) and Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX) are two large stocks leading the way, ...

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed the latest batch of the 26 most recent 13-F filings for the 06/30/2014 reporting period, and noticed that Qualcomm, Inc. (NASD: QCOM) was held by 19 of these funds. When hedge fund m...

On 7/29/14, Lexington Realty Trust's 6.50% Series C Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock (NYSE: LXP.PRC) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.8125, payable on 8/15/14. As a percentage of LXP.PRC's r...

On 7/29/14, Kilroy Realty Corp's 6.375% Series H Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (NYSE: KRC.PRH) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.3984, payable on 8/15/14. As a percentage of KRC.PRH's recen...

On 7/29/14, F.N.B. Corp.'s Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series E (NYSE: FNB.PRE) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.4532, payable on 8/15/14. As a percentage of F...

On 7/29/14, Bombardier Inc.'s Series 2 Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares (Toronto: BBD-PRB) will trade ex-dividend, for its monthly dividend of $0.0625, payable on 8/15/14. As a percentage of BBD.PRB's recent share ...

On 7/29/14, Brookfield Asset ManagementCumulative Exchangeable Redeemable Class A Preference Shares, Series 8 (Toronto: BAM-PRE) will trade ex-dividend, for its monthly dividend of $0.0625, payable on 8/12/14. As a perce...

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 one noteworthy recent insider buy.

Gross margins improved by 90 basis points to 49.2% in Q2 2014. The expansion in margin was driven by a higher percentage of sales of excess inventory through factory outlets, a reduction of air freight expenses and lower...

The company's services revenues rose by almost 9% over the prior year quarter to $2.6 billion while its product revenues stayed flat at about $3.3 billion. Much of the growth was driven by VMware (+17%), Pivotal (+28%) a...

Fee revenues are not expected to see a jump similar to the one seen this quarter for the rest of the year, and the continuing pressure on net interest margins will keep interest revenues depressed. At the same time, Stat...

In the context of new vehicle sales, models that are not satellite enabled may be Pandora's prime target because it's much easier to beat terrestrial radio over the quality of content than satellite radio. However, custo...