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The company's restructuring initiatives have certainly been yielding results, helping to cut quarterly adjusted net losses to around $11 million from about $60 million in the previous quarter, while reaching break even a...

Shares of Ford skidded deep into the red Monday afternoon after comments during the company's investor day revealed that the automaker is lowering its full-year profit guidance and expects to record a more-than $1 billio...

Options on recent IPO Alibaba (BABA) were actively traded as derivatives dealing began Monday. The stock attracted overall option volume of 122,000 contracts in its first day, which was impressive at least in contrast to...

Share in segment falls to 12%, sharply down from 41% in August 2013, as traders switch to other exchanges

Pick-up could well be owing to increase in working capital cycles

US GDP expanded last quarter at fastest pace since 2011, compared with little or no growth in euro zone and Japan

Inventories jumped 16% since 30 June and are heading for an 11th straight quarterly gain, the longest streak since the data begins in 1979

A strong balance sheet has whetted Strides' appetite for growth, which is seen in the number of deals it has struck

Of 21 QIPs done since Jan, 8 were by infra firms, and of these, 6 have seen a sharp fall in their share prices

Looking at the sectors faring worst as of midday Monday, shares of Services companies are underperforming other sectors, showing a 0.6% loss. Within that group, Discovery Communications (NASD: DISCA) and Wynn Resorts  (...

In afternoon trading on Monday, Utilities stocks are the best performing sector, up 0.4%. Within the sector, NiSource  (NYSE: NI) and NRG Energy (NYSE: NRG) are two of the day's stand-outs, showing a gain of 6.0% and 1....

The S&P 500, NASDAQ Composite Dow Jones Industrial Average are all lower on Monday afternoon. Some of the most actively traded stocks include TIBCO Software (TIBX) up 21.5%, Bank of America (BAC) down 0.5%, Athlon Energy...

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CLARCOR (CLC) resolved to increase the company's regular quarterly dividend by approximately 18%, from $0.17 per share of common stock to $0.20 per share of common stock. The Board further resolved to pay the new $0.20 p...

The First Trust Energy AlphaDEX Fund ETF (FXN) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Monday, with over 10.5 million shares traded versus three month average volume of about 423,000.  Shares of FXN were do...

In trading on Monday, the SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF (XOP) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 0.5% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Athlon Energy (A...

Zynga?s web bookings are declining and the company expects its full year bookings to total between $695 million and $725 million. In this context, the company?s licensing agreements with big brands continue to cast a dou...

Due to strong franchisee demand in the core and established markets, the company has changed its net new openings guidance. The net openings growth in the core market is expected to be in the range 15-20%, revised from t...

Walgreen expects its Q4 2014 gross margins to decline by a similar percentage year to year as that witnessed in Q3 2014. Though recent trends have put pressure on margins, we believe that Walgreen?s constant focus on low...

While the deal is currently under review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, the increasing number of sanctions over recent months on Russia has led to the strong possibility of Rosneft backing o...

In trading on Monday, textiles shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 2.3%.  Helping drag down the group were shares of Sequential Brands Group (SQBG) off about 2.7% on the day.

In trading on Monday, music & electronics stores shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 1.3%.  Leading the group were shares of Conns (CONN), up about 6% and shares of Rent-A-Center (RCII) up about 2.1% on...