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Alibaba Group Holding's initial public offering has become the world's biggest ever IPO, at $25.03 billion, after the Chinese e-commerce giant and some of its shareholders increased the deal size by 15 percent by selling...

Consistently, one of the more popular stocks people enter into their stock options watchlist at Stock Options Channel is Merck & Co., Inc (NYSE: MRK). So this week we highlight one interesting put contract, and one inter...

EMC, which hosts massive data stores for the Fortune 500 and key federal agencies, is in play. Reports indicate Hewlett-Packard is the most aggressive suitor, with Dell a close second. EMC shares were up 1.32 percent, to...

Insiders in a company have an information advantage. Does it make sense, then, to simply imitate what they do in terms of stock purchases and sales

The worst performing sector as of midday Monday is the Services sector, showing a 1.6% loss. Within that group, AutoZone (NYSE: AZO) and Walgreen (NYSE: WAG) are two of the day's laggards, showing a loss of 4.3% and 4.1%...

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Monday, shares of Materials companies are outperforming other sectors, losing just 0.1%. Within that group, Sigma-Aldrich (NASD: SIAL) and International Paper (NYSE: IP) ar...

Sebi's move comes at a time when the primary market has started to revive after three years

The S&P 500, NASDAQ Composite Dow Jones Industrial Average are all lower on Monday afternoon. Some of the most actively traded stocks Bank of America (BAC) up 0.80%, Yahoo! (YHOO) lower by 5.28%, Apple (AAPL) down 0.16%,...

Hersha Hospitality Trust (HT) declared an increased quarterly cash dividend of $0.07 per Common Share and per Limited Partnership Unit for the third quarter ending September 30, 2014. The increased dividend represents an...

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 dollars to ...

With revenues of nearly $862 million expected for the fiscal year ending September 2015, Concur looks to be valued at approximately 9.6x forward FY sales. Comparatively, recent acquisitions in the SaaS space, such as Sal...

The iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF (IXUS) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Monday, with over 217,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 66,000.  Shares of IXUS ...

In trading on Monday, the Materials Select Sector SPDR Fund ETF (XLB) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 0.2% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Sigma Aldrich (SIAL), up...

In trading on Monday, non-precious metals & non-metallic mining shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 3.5%.  Helping drag down the group were shares of Mechel (MTL), off about 27.6% and shares of Alder...

In trading on Monday, cigarettes & tobacco shares were relative leaders, down on the day by about 0.1%.  Leading the group were shares of Universal (UVV), up about 1% and shares of Altria Group (MO) up about 0.8% on the...

In our opinion, Alibaba will need to accelerate the growth in average spend per active buyer for its China marketplaces, expedite efforts to increase mobile monetization to desktop levels and substantially grow its inter...

Consistently, one of the more popular stocks people enter into their stock options watchlist at Stock Options Channel is Pfizer Inc (NYSE: PFE). So this week we highlight one interesting put contract, and one interesting...

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

Consistently, one of the more popular stocks people enter into their stock options watchlist at Stock Options Channel is Annaly Capital Management Inc (NYSE: NLY). So this week we highlight one interesting put contract, ...

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

Consistently, one of the more popular stocks people enter into their stock options watchlist at Stock Options Channel is 3M Co (NYSE: MMM). So this week we highlight one interesting put contract, and one interesting call...

Consistently, one of the more popular stocks people enter into their stock options watchlist at Stock Options Channel is McDonald's Corp (NYSE: MCD). So this week we highlight one interesting put contract, and one intere...