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Consistently, one of the more popular stocks people enter into their stock options watchlist at Stock Options Channel is Costco Wholesale Corp (NASD: COST). So this week we highlight one interesting put contract, and one...

We believe that the company's North American results will remain weak in the near term. Since these operations account for about two-third of Coach's sales, the retailer's overall results will also feel the negative impa...

Robert Benmosche delivered a big earnings beat in his last quarterly report as AIG CEO.

American International Group posted a 13% jump in second-quarter profit, aided by solid results in its core operations and a large gain from the last of a series of divestitures prompted by its crisis-era government bail...

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed the latest batch of the 39 most recent 13F filings for the 06/30/2014 reporting period, and noticed that Occidental Petroleum Corp (NYSE: OXY) was held by 17 of these funds. When hed...

HSBC Holdings PLC Chairman Douglas Flint said the ramping up of a regulatory crackdown on banks is spooking its managers from taking normal business risks.

The world's biggest coffee producers are turning into their own best customers, a shift that is driving up the price of a cup from São Paulo to San Francisco.

Stock prices started retreating this past week, driven by newfound concerns that good economic news is bad news for the stock market. What? Normally, good economic news is good news for the market, right?

Looking at the sectors faring worst as of midday Monday, shares of Utilities companies are underperforming other sectors, showing a 1.0% loss. Within the sector, American Electric Power Company (NYSE: AEP) and Exelon (NY...

The US markets are higher in early afternoon trading, with the Dow up 0.18%, the S&P higher by 0.44% and the Nasdaq up 0.49%. Some of the most actively traded stocks include Groupon (GRPN) up 7.5%, Bank of America (BAC) ...

When a hedge fund holds a small amount of a given stock, it can much more easily change course if new developments challenge the original investment thesis, i.e. the fund can quickly sell that small holding. Selling a fe...

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed the latest batch of the 22 most recent 13-F filings for the 06/30/2014 reporting period, and noticed that Mondelez International Inc (NASD: MDLZ) was held by 12 of these funds. When ...

We expect Ralph Lauren's top line to continue to grow as markets such as China and India are set to increase their spending on luxury items by 80% and 72% respectively over the 2013-2018 period. In addition, we expect th...

We expect earnings to increase on a year-over-year basis, driven by higher load from the regulated electric business in the United States and some operating cost-related improvements.

Retail investors took dips in individual names as buying opportunities and were net buyers for the month.

We expect the company to report a sequential decline in earnings, owing to lower revenue recognition on its large-scale solar power projects, although this could be partially offset by some improvement in balance of syst...

Although the company continues to sign new content deals to bolster its ads business, in this earnings announcement, we want to know whether the deals that it signed over the past few years have had the desired effect on...

On 8/6/14, BB&T Corp.'s Series D Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock (NYSE: BBT.PRD) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.3656, payable on 9/2/14. As a percentage of BBT.PRD's recent share price ...

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...

Kimberly-Clark (KMB) has declared a regular quarterly dividend of $.84 per share. The dividend is payable on October 2, 2014 to stockholders of record on September 5, 2014.

New rules require firms to get investor nod for related-party transactions, establish whistleblower mechanism, elaborate disclosures on pay packages

Individuals can now mimic hedge-fund investing without paying hefty fees. Here is a look at the advantages and risks of three of these approaches.