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Fresh concerns about the pace of Chinese growth drove down financial markets from U.S. stocks to cotton and copper prices.

Asian shares recouped early losses after a reading on China's massive factory sector outpaced market's bleak expectations

Summary The pace of the U.S. money supply is decelerating, now well off cyclical highs This is increasing the risk of an economic and financial market bust

When a court in Urumqi, capital of China's far-western Xinjiang region, sentenced Ilham Tohti to life in prison on charges of advocating Xinjiang's independence from China Tuesday, the result of the trial surprised no on...

When hedge fund manager "titans" think alike, investors are wise to pay attention. At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed 3,749 13F filings for the 06/30/2014 reporting period, and noticed that SunEdison Inc (NYSE: SUNE) ...

Countries in Asia-Pacific region are far less knowledge driven than developed nations, says ADB report

Ratio of liabilities to assets of households remains stable even in the downturn

In afternoon trading on Tuesday, Consumer Products stocks are the worst performing sector, showing a 0.7% loss. Within that group, Clorox (NYSE: CLX) and Coca-Cola Enterprises (NYSE: CCE) are two large stocks that are la...

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Tuesday, shares of Materials companies are outperforming other sectors, losing just 0.1%. Within the sector, CF Industries Holdings (NYSE: CF) and Newmont Mining (NYSE: NEM...

The signing of this agreement is important for Vale as it would permit the docking of its Valemax ships in China, which until now was not permitted under existing rules. Vale, with its iron ore mines located in Brazil, s...

China Unicom reported a marked decline in 3G and 4G subscriber additions in August with about 1.3 million adds, compared to over 2.5 million in July and over 3 million in June. In terms of high speed (3G and 4G) user gai...

Nike delivered strong growth across its product portfolio in fiscal 2014 and we expect these strategies to continue delivering growth in fiscal 2015. Additionally, incremental investments in the company?s Direct to Consu...

This will be the single largest investment made by a foreign company in Israel to date, and post the upgrade the Intel plant will be among the most advanced chip manufacturing facilities in the world. The exact amount is...

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 ...

Campbell Soup Company (CPB) declared a regular quarterly dividend on its capital stock of $0.312 per share. The quarterly dividend is payable Nov. 3, 2014, to shareholders of record at the close of business Oct. 13, 2014...

The MSCI Argentina ETF (ARGT) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Tuesday, with over 509,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 42,000.  Shares of ARGT were off about 0.4% on the d...

In trading on Tuesday, the Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 2.2% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Banro (BAA.CA), up about 8.3% and sha...

In trading on Tuesday, music & electronics stores shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 1.8%.  Helping drag down the group were shares of RadioShack (RSH), down about 12.6% and shares of hhgregg (HGG) ...

In trading on Tuesday, precious metals shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 1.6%.  Leading the group were shares of Great Panther Silver (GPL), up about 7.8% and shares of Golden Star Resources (GSS) up ...

Fund will be investing in real estate projects across five metro cities

On land that once belonged to the largest American military base outside the U.S., Arnel Casanova envisages a new type of city for the Philippines.

Maryland has joined a not-very-exclusive club: States that have moved pension funds into riskier Wall Street investments and received, in return, below-median results. That underperformance by Maryland's $40 billion publ...