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US crude futures for September delivery dropped 52 cents to $101.57 a barrel after ending last week 1% lower

After decades focusing on less-developed nations, big oil companies are piling back into wealthy countries with political stability that provides more-predictable cash flow.

Dollar index hovers near 6-month highs as euro sags; currencies eye US data for direction

The small nation is seeking to be at the heart of a new trend in global finance: the rising use of China's currency outside its home market.

Emirates, the largest airline in the Middle East, will no longer fly its planes over Iraq, the company announced Monday. The Dubai-based airline's decision, which comes in the wake of the shooting down of a Malaysia Airl...

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed the latest batch of the 30 most recent 13-F filings for the 06/30/2014 reporting period, and noticed that Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) was held by 14 of these funds. When hedge f...

In afternoon trading on Monday, Utilities stocks are the best performing sector, higher by 1.3%. Within that group, American Electric Power Company, (NYSE: AEP) and Public Service Enterprise Group (NYSE: PEG) are two of ...

Looking at the sectors faring worst as of midday Monday, shares of Consumer Products companies are underperforming other sectors, showing a 0.3% loss. Within that group, Cummins (NYSE: CMI) and Monster Beverage (NASD: MN...

On 7/30/14, Vanguard Natural Resource LLC's 7.875% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Units (NASD: VNRAP) will trade ex-dividend, for its monthly dividend of $0.1641, payable on 8/15/14. As a percentage o...

On 7/30/14, Teekay Offshore Partners L.P.'s 7.25% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Units (NYSE: TOO.PRA) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.4531, payable on 8/15/14. As a percentage of TOO.P...

On 7/30/14, Banco Santander SA's Series C Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock (NYSE: SOV.PRC) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.4562, payable on 8/15/14. As a percentage of SOV.PRC's recent sh...

On 7/30/14, Realty Income Corp.'s 6.625% Monthly Income Class F Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (NYSE: O.PRF) will trade ex-dividend, for its monthly dividend of $0.1380, payable on 8/15/14. As a percentage of O.PR...

On 7/30/14, Realty Income Corp.'s 6.75% Monthly Income Class E Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (NYSE: O.PRE) will trade ex-dividend, for its monthly dividend of $0.1406, payable on 8/15/14. As a percentage of O.PRE...

On 7/30/14, M & T Bank Corp's Fixed Rate Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series A (NYSE: MTB.PR) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $15.9375, payable on 8/15/14. As a percentage of MTB.PR's recen...

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.

On 7/30/14, JPMorgan Chase & Co's 5.45% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series P (NYSE: JPM.PRA) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.3406, payable on 9/2/14. As a percentage of JPM.PRA's recent share...

On 7/30/14, Bank of Montreal's Non-cumulative Perpetual Class B Preferred Shares Series 13 (Toronto: BMO-PRJ) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.2812, payable on 8/25/14. As a percentage of BMO.PRJ'...

On 7/30/14, BCE Inc.'s Cumulative Redeemable First Preferred Shares, Series AA (Toronto: BCE-PRA) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.2156, payable on 9/1/14. As a percentage of BCE.PRA's recent shar...

While challenges and questions remain, MCX still has to disassociate itself from the various agreements with FTIL

In this earnings announcement the focus will be on the growth in New York Times' digital subscriber base, which is expected to drive revenue growth in the future. Furthermore, since the company continues to expand to new...

For the fourth fiscal quarter, we expect to see growth in ADP's payroll business driven by the strong growth in job additions across all sectors in the U.S. in the quarter ending June 31 2014.

We expect the growth to improve in the second quarter given the severe winter conditions in the U.S. that had a somewhat moderating effect on revenues in the first quarter.