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(Reuters) - Argentina's markets watchdog on Monday launched an investigation into what it believes may have been unlawful speculation by holdout creditors whose litigation against the country for repayment of their defau...

The South China Morning Post has reported that Chinese investigators raided Mercedes-Benz' Shanghai office on Monday morning as part of a broader anti-monopoly campaign in the country. According to reports, the investiga...

Around 1:30 p.m. all three indices dropped precipitously. While some losses were recouped before the close the market did not come close to a full recovery.

The head of Formula One Bernie Ecclestone has avoided possible conviction on bribery charges after agreeing to pay $100 million.

Equity markets took a bit of a breather last week with the S&P 500 giving back 2.66% of its market value.  It wasn't such a big drop as far as weekly drops are concerned but many felt spooked because it mostly came on T...

Encouraged by India's strengthening economy and the pro-business agenda of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, foreign investors have begun to return to the India real-estate market after fleeing the country in the wake of the...

With deal making in the doldrums, a group of lawyers took a bike ride, setting the wheels in motion on a major driver of cross-border deals, but not as they expected.

CEOs of asset management companies discuss what the industry needs to do and how it needs to change to achieve its growth objectives

By Mark Druskoff

In afternoon trading on Tuesday, Consumer Products stocks are the best performing sector, losing just 0.5%. Within that group, Coach (NYSE: COH) and Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE: ADM) are two of the day's stand-outs, sho...

The worst performing sector as of midday Tuesday is the Energy sector, showing a 2.4% loss. Within that group, Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE: PXD) and Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) are two large stocks that are lagging, show...

Compat dismisses NSE's appeal against the CCI ruling terming the conduct of the exchange as 'exclusionary'

We expect the company's earnings to rise year-over-year, driven by higher revenue efficiency and lower operation and maintenance (O&M) costs, although rig utilization rates could continue to remain under pressure due to ...

The Vermont-based coffee company expects non-GAAP earnings per diluted share for the third quarter to be in the range of $0.83 to $0.88. The company delivered impressive results in its second quarter, driven by a combina...

We expect to learn that the company saw continued gains in its media networks business driven by higher ratings, especially at the Nickelodeon network. Higher ratings likely boosted the advertising revenues for Viacom.

The growth was broad-based across all the divisions and brands with the exception of Hotwire, which faced pressure due to lower demand for opaque bookings and competition from Priceline's Express Deals product.

On 8/7/14, NorthStar Realty Finance Corp's 8.25% Series B Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (NYSE: NRF.PRB) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.5156, payable on 8/15/14. As a percentage of NRF.PR...

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.

Months after Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said that budget constraints forced him to push for pension cuts and mass school closures, an analysis of government documents has revealed that the city has $1.71 billion in speci...

International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) authorized a 21% increase in the quarterly dividend to $0.47 per share of the Company's common stock, up from the current $0.39 per share. The quarterly dividend is payable on Oct...

The Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF (VCR) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Tuesday, with over 855,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 74,000.  Shares of VCR were down abo...

Bob Stovall: Following an abrupt stumble in late July we expect the market to move somewhat higher during the rest of 2014. The market has had a remarkable ascent that began 64 months ago -- the fourth largest run since ...