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Almost half of American households were struggling five years after the Great Recession, according to a new study published by the Federal Reserve survey of consumers. Many of households were financially strained with ti...

Climate change, lime shortage and westernization fed a 150% surge in worldwide lemon consumption in 2011-13.

A few weeks ago I wrote about the coming default wave in the high-yield bond market and recommended a tactical strategy for that possible scenario (See Code Red in High Yield).  This may be an opportune time to put that...

The thirty second trading week of 2014 comes to a close with US markets higher in late afternoon trading.

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Friday, shares of Utilities companies are outperforming other sectors, up 1.5%. Within that group, Dominion Resources (NYSE: D) and Consolidated Edison(NYSE: ED) are two la...

The worst performing sector as of midday Friday is the Financial sector, up 0.7%. Within that group, Lincoln National (NYSE: LNC) and Essex Property Trust (NYSE: ESS) are two large stocks that are lagging, showing a loss...

The manner in which those gross NPAs have come down is not particularly encouraging

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed the latest batch of the 28 most recent 13F filings for the 06/30/2014 reporting period, and noticed that Honeywell International, Inc. (NYSE: HON) was held by 11 of these funds. When...

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...

The deal is the latest in a series of developments for Alcoa in the aerospace sector. Aerospace remains at the center of Alcoa's shift towards value-added products, as it looks to reduce its dependence on its commodity b...

A bid from Arcadis for the British company was trumped by a rival offer from a Japanese rival

A bid from Arcadis for the British company was trumped by a rival offer from a Japanese rival

Despite strong top line growth in the last few quarters, Cree's stock price has declined more than 20% year to date. We believe the pressure on gross margins, on account of the rising proportion of lower margin lighting ...

In our opinion, while Groupon did make some advancements, it simply hasn't fixed the issues that have plagued it in the past. The company needs to do better if it has to convince investors that that it runs a sustainable...

We believe that things could remain challenging for the foreseeable future, given that the company's traditional strengths of marketing and manufacturing are unlikely to compensate for its lack of product differentiation...

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Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), despite only launching an Indian version of its website last year, is investing in a deeper selection of products the U.S. company hopes will make it a more attractive destination than Flip...

UPS (UPS) declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.67 per share on all outstanding Class A and Class B shares. The dividend is payable September 3, 2014, to shareowners of record on August 18, 2014.

The iShares U.S. Regional Banks ETF (IAT) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 1.4 million shares traded versus three month average volume of about 111,000.  Shares of IAT were up about...

Investors nervous as US return to a military role in Iraq heightens geopolitical tensions

In today’s environment of ultra-low interest rates, finding tax exempt income is a challenge for all investors, whether you are managing a multi-billion dollar mutual fund or your own personal account.

The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the components of the S&P 500 index, Phillips 66 (PSX) is now the #87 analyst pick, moving up by 3 spots.         This rank is ...