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Companies in more pedestrian industries are boosting Japan's economy again despite the malaise among better-known consumer players such as Sony.

Former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and other two architects of the U.S. government's response to the financial crisis are likely to get a tough grilling this week from an attorney representing shareholders challenging the ...

Delta Air Lines ratings upgrade by S&P puts the company on the cusp of an investment grade rating. S&P anticipates further upgrades in the future.

The best performing sector as of midday Monday is the Healthcare sector, up 0.2%. Within that group, CareFusion  (NYSE: CFN) and Becton, Dickinson (NYSE: BDX) are two of the day's stand-outs, showing a gain of 23.2% and...

The S&P 500, NASDAQ Composite Dow Jones Industrial Average are all relatively flat on Monday afternoon. Some of the most actively traded stocks include GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) down 91.5%, Bank of America (BAC) up...

Thor Industries (THO) announced an increase in the amount of Thor's regular quarterly dividend to $0.27 per share from $0.23 per share, an increase of 17%. The regular dividend is payable on October 31, 2014 to sharehold...

The PowerShares Dynamic Building & Construction Portfolio ETF (PKB) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Monday, with over 917,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 26,000.  Shares...

In trading on Monday, the iShares Latin America 40 ETF (ILF) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 5.1% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Petroleo Brasileiro (PBR.A), up a...

In trading on Monday, semiconductors shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 2.1%.  Helping drag down the group were shares of GT Advanced Tech (GTAT), down about 89.9% and shares of Rubicon Tech (RBCN) ...

On 10/8/14, Power Financial Corp's Non-Cumulative First Preferred Shares, Series E (Toronto: PWF-PRF) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.3281, payable on 10/31/14. As a percentage of PWF.PRF's recen...

On 10/8/14, National Bank of Canada's Non-Cumulative Fixed Rate First Preferred Shares Series 16 (Toronto: NA-PRL) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.3031, payable on 11/17/14. As a percentage of NA...

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...

Honda is Nvidia's first partner based in Asia and the 19th global automotive brand to use Nvidia processors for their in-car audio and information systems. At present, there are more than 6 million cars using NVIDIA proc...

As on December 31, 2013, Freeport's Indonesian operations accounted for around 27% and 95% of the company's consolidated proven and probable copper and gold reserves, respectively. The company's proven and probable reser...

The commercial viability of producing this oil under current market conditions is yet to be determined but the size of the find (estimated at around 750 million barrels of oil) seems to be huge. While this is great news ...

The company is hoping to sidestep the turmoil by pointing to its industry-beating sales growth and expansion plans in Asia

Samsung's bread-and-butter smartphone business has been facing significant headwinds of late, with its high-end products challenged by Apple's large-screen iPhones and its budget offerings facing competition from vendors...

Stocks ended the week on a positive note as many of the daily technical studies are now rising. In Friday's Week Ahead column, I pointed out the bullish divergence in the McClellan oscillator that formed last Thursday. T...

The proceeds will be used for providing an exit to its existing shareholders Ganesh Chandra Mrig and Ashok Mrig

TD Ameritrade Holding’s monthly look at its 6 million clients’ trading activity shows that retail investors increased their exposure to equities in September, as the firm’s Investor Movement Index ticked up to...

Apple was the most actively traded stock every month of 2013.

Below is the October 4th Thoughts from the Frontline, republished in full. “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”