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The European Central Bank unexpectedly slashed its benchmark rates Thursday as the continent has been struggling to boost economic recovery and get out of deflationary pressures, pushing euro to a 14-month low against th...

FSOC adds MetLife to non-bank SIFIs, alongside GE Capital and fellow insurers Prudential Financial and AIG.

A complex finance network that includes everything from fake charities to kidnapping has supported the East African militant group al-Shabab's activities over the past few years. It's difficult to know specifics because ...

GoPro has been surfing at new highs in recent days. Is it time to get off the wave?

Ahead of the Tape: Bets that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates more quickly might take the wind out of the stock market's sails.

A hedge-fund manager is blaming an unusual culprit for his firm's demise: high-frequency traders. Rinehart Capital Partners, backed by hedge-fund veteran Lee Ainslie, is closing.

In afternoon trading on Thursday, Services stocks are the best performing sector, up 0.8%. Within that group, Fastenal (NASD: FAST) and Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) are two large stocks leading the way, showing a gain of 4.2% an...

Looking at the sectors faring worst as of midday Thursday, shares of Energy companies are underperforming other sectors, showing a 1.2% loss. Within the sector, FMC Technologies (NYSE: FTI) and Noble Corp (NYSE: NE) are ...

New York real-estate investor Joseph Chetrit has agreed to pay more than $190 million to acquire the Hotel Carter, a 600-room former flophouse in Manhattan's Times Square, according to people familiar with the matter.

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed 3,737 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...

For the second day in a row, most of the major averages and the A/D ratios were slightly negative. Tuesday?s leaders, the Dow Transports and small-cap S&P 600 were both lower on the day with the Dow Utilities gaining 0.4...

PE funds have sold $1.18 billion worth of investments via public market transactions between January and August

Silver Wheaton is a precious metals streaming company which signs long term purchase agreements with mining companies producing silver or gold as a by-product. It provides funds for capital expenditure upfront when a pro...

In a bid to protect domestic vehicle and spare-parts manufacturers amid concerns over declining vehicles sales, and as a possible retaliation of the U.S. and European Union?s sanctions, Russia could ban import of cars in...

We believe that the device, although impressive, may not be enough to reverse Samsung?s falling market share, given that much of the growth in the phablet market could come from low-end devices, while Apple could potenti...

With the launch of MICA, Intel is the latest company to focus on making health sensing wearable devices more fashionable. By making the wearable devices look more like a fashion accessory, Intel feels confident of expand...

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...

Joy Global, a company that manufactures and services mining equipment for coal mining, reported weaker-than-expected third quarter earnings results Thursday and blamed the top- and bottom-line misses on a struggling ther...

The Dow Chemical Company (DOW) has declared a dividend of 37 cents per share, payable October 30, 2014, to shareholders of record on September 30, 2014.

The payoff is higher yields. But recent market gyrations are a reminder of the risks.

The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the components of the S&P 500 index, MetLife (MET) is now the #21 analyst pick, moving up by 1 spot.         This rank is forme...

The European Central Bank unexpectedly lowered all its interest rates and announced two new programs under which it will buy asset-backed securities and covered bonds issued by eurozone banks.