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For just $1 shoppers at Dollar Tree can buy school supplies, craft kits and cutlery. For nearly $9 billion, Dollar Tree, with its acquisition of Family Dollar, is now buying a whole lot more bargaining power with supplie...

How bad will bond fund investors suffer when interest rates rise and are Non-Traditional funds the answer? Find out what Vanguard's Chief Economist, Joseph Davis thinks about this subject.

I am not a “value hound” when it comes to investments. Quality, stability and getting one’s money back are as important, if not more so, than booking large gains. On the other hand, when I see consistent disparity ...

Panera Bread reported second quarter earnings results after the closing bell Tuesday afternoon, and much like a stale bagel, the numbers were rather flat: the company failed to meet Wall Street's expectations on revenue ...

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 Oracle Corp. (NYSE: ORCL) was held by 16 of these funds. When hedge fund man...

As Argentina hurtles toward a second default in 13 years, the local press has lit upon a convenient villain: 83-year-old U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa.

he best performing sector as of midday Tuesday is the Technology & Communications sector, higher by 0.9%. Within that group, Windstream Holdings (NASD: WIN) and Frontier Communications (NASD: FTR) are two large stocks le...

In afternoon trading on Tuesday, Utilities stocks are the worst performing sector, showing a 0.6% loss. Within that group, Entergy (NYSE: ETR) and NRG Energy (NYSE: NRG) are two large stocks that are lagging, showing a l...

IBM (IBM) declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $1.10 per common share, payable September 10, 2014 to stockholders of record August 8, 2014.

We expect the results to benefit from FIFA World Cup 2014 games, which stretched from mid June to mid July. Our estimates reveal that Akamai could have added somewhere around $40-$50 million in incremental revenues from ...

We expect the company to post modest earnings growth over the last year on higher commodity prices and improved liquids production, partly offset by lower overall production and thinner downstream margins.

Suze Orman, Magic Johnson and Lil Wayne are among the celebrities who have shuttered or scaled back prepaid-card ventures, as they struggle to compete with plain-vanilla cards issued by big banks.

The highlight of the company's impressive performance in this quarter was its U.S. comparable sales growth of 7%, despite increasing competition in the breakfast segment and rising commodity prices. Each of the company's...

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.

OCBC prevailed in its bid to take Wing Hang Bank Ltd. private, despite a bid by Paul Singer's Elliott to force the Singaporean lender to raise the deal's price.

On 7/31/14, Blueknight Energy Partners LP's Series A Preferred Units (NASD: BKEPP) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.1787, payable on 8/14/14. As a percentage of BKEPP's recent share price of $10.1...

Lightbox closed the first tranche of $25 million in April

Goldman Sachs is shoppin' around. The firm upgraded warehouse club Costco and downgraded super-store Walmart Tuesdsay, citing the rise of online grocery shopping as a key consideration.

Don?t be a growth investor or a value investor; consider both growth and valuation when you?re analyzing a stock.

The Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF (VDC) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Tuesday, with over 638,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 89,000.  Shares of VDC were off about 0.1%...

In trading on Tuesday, the iShares U.S. Telecommunications ETF (IYZ) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 3.2% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Frontier Communications (...

In trading on Tuesday, biotechnology shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 1.7%.  Leading the group were shares of Mimedx Group (MDXG), up about 13.4% and shares of Cellular Biomedicine Group (CBMG) up ab...