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Low valuations, continued strong central-bank support and anticipated solid earnings growth are all likely to catapult Europe from its current "leading from behind" position to a "leading from the front of the global pac...

Asian shares rose, after upbeat US data sparked another record close on Wall Street

Royal Bank of Canada is facing a conundrum about one of its fastest-growing businesses: when to apply the brakes. Earnings from the bank's capital-markets business are bumping up against a self-imposed limit that is key ...

All eyes are on the Fed. When will it begin to raise interest rates? Some say next summer. Others think sooner, in the first quarter of next year. A few Fed governors insist that will be too late, that the Fed needs to a...

When hedge fund manager "titans" think alike, investors are wise to pay attention. At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed 3,721 13F filings for the 06/30/2014 reporting period, and noticed that Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TW...

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed 3,721 13F filings for the 06/30/2014 reporting period, and looked at the various S&P 500 components held by each of these reporting hedge funds and other 13F filers. For each compone...

The thirty fourth trading week of 2014 comes to a close with the S&P 500 and Dow lower and the NASDAQ slightly higher, in afternoon trading today.

In afternoon trading on Friday, Services stocks are the best performing sector, up 0.4%. Within that group, Ross Stores (NASD: ROST) and GameStop (NYSE: GME) are two of the day's stand-outs, showing a gain of 7.0% and 5....

In afternoon trading on Friday, Energy stocks are the worst performing sector, showing a 0.6% loss. Within the sector, Transocean (NYSE: RIG) and Cabot Oil & Gas (NYSE: COG) are two large stocks that are lagging, showing...

While Aeropostale's overall Q2 performance was dismal, there were a few bright spots. The company's average prices (average unit retail) increased by 6% during the quarter, due to good customer response to fashion collec...

Despite the strong shipments, we do not expect to see a significant sequential bump in earnings or margins, given that the company could see higher polysilicon costs. Additionally, the company saw a favorable sales mix t...

Best Buy expects its cost cutting efforts to offset the weaker sales and costs related to its price matching policy. The company remains confident that its growth will re-accelerate in the next few years as it continues ...

The deal follows months of negotiations between the regulators and Bank of America, and is the largest settlement ever by the DoJ with a single entity. The cash component of the deal is $9.65 billion, while the remaining...

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen delivered a speech Friday at the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank's annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium. Here's a word cloud generated from the text of that speech.

Real estate research firm RealtyTrac released data on Friday showing that the quick reseale of homes bought for investment provides the best returns in Pittsburgh. According to the company's Q2 2014 U.S. Home Flipping Re...

Starting this fall caffeine addicts will be able to brew Maxwell House, Gevalia, Yuban and even McCafe coffees using Keurig Green Mountain's popular single serve brewing systems.

The iShares U.S. Regional Banks ETF (IAT) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 526,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 129,000.  Shares of IAT were up about 0.2...

Lewis Hamilton might be in the midst of one of the fiercest Formula One battles of recent years but the Mercedes man is staying cool -- ice cool.

The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the components of the S&P 500 index, Citigroup (C) is now the #106 analyst pick, moving up by 2 spots.         This rank is for...

When hedge fund manager "titans" think alike, investors are wise to pay attention. At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed 3,721 13F filings for the 06/30/2014 reporting period, and noticed that Intel Corp (NASD: INTC) was...

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed 3,721 13F filings for the 06/30/2014 reporting period, and looked at the various S&P 500 components held by each of these reporting hedge funds and other 13F filers. For each compone...

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...