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Shareholders of Patterson-UTI Energy Inc. (NASD: PTEN) looking to boost their income beyond the stock's 1.6% annualized dividend yield can sell the February 2015 covered call at the $26 strike and collect the premium bas...

Why the recent stock market rebound could be a trap before another sell-off unless certain conditions are met.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is increasingly steering cases to hearings in front of the agency's appointed administrative judges, who found in its favor in every verdict for the 12 months through September, rat...

U.S. stocks closed higher Monday, with the Nasdaq and Standard & Poor's 500 ending higher for a third straight session as investors weighed mixed earnings results from blue-chip Dow component International Business Machi...

Three game-changing questions have been weighing heavily on the minds of Comcast investors: What is the timeline for its contentious $45.2 billion takeover of Time Warner Cable? Does it have a solid strategy to combat co...

Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has taken hits on investments in Coke, IBM and Britain's Tesco.

The billionaire at the helm of Berkshire Hathaway has bought banks and credit card companies for both the firm and his personal account.

Thanks to Tesla's big rally, Daimler cashes out for $780 million.

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed the latest batch of the 26 most recent 13F filings for the 09/30/2014 reporting period, and noticed that Oracle Corp. (NYSE: ORCL) was held by 17 of these funds. When hedge fund mana...

The average bid of high-yield flow-name bonds rocketed 272 bps in today’s reading, to 101.33% of par, yielding 6.74%, from 98.61, yielding 7.86%, on Oct. 16, according to LCD. All 15 of the constituents notched big gai...

Investor sentiment is expected to improve following diesel deregulation and gas price hike, as they are likely to lower uncertainty

In afternoon trading on Tuesday, Utilities stocks are the worst performing sector, up 0.5%. Within that group, Consolidated Edison (NYSE: ED) and Integrys Energy Group (NYSE: TEG) are two large stocks that are lagging, s...

The best performing sector as of midday Tuesday is the Energy sector, higher by 2.5%. Within that group, Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX) and Marathon Petroleum (NYSE: MPC) are two large stocks leading the way, showing a gain of ...

In the third quarter, we expect to see a decline in Caterpillar's revenue driven by continued weakness in the Resource Industries segment accompanied with poor Construction Industries sales. Engine and Transportation seg...

As the saying goes, there are many possible reasons for an insider to sell a stock, but only one reason to buy -- they expect to make money.  So let's look at one noteworthy recent insider buy.

We will estimate the demand for silver from the PV industry under the simplifying assumption that solar panels for incremental solar PV capacity additions are manufactured in the same year in which they are installed. Ta...

The price hikes and increasing customer count were the primary factors that drove the comparable store sales. In a short span, the restaurant chain has managed to outpace all other fast-casual restaurants and has grabbed...

We expect strong growth in the electronics and general merchandise category and North American region to be the pillars for Amazon's top-line increase during the third quarter. Also, Amazon Web Services segment will like...

When the company announces its third quarter earnings, we expect revenues to grow in the low-to-mid single digits, owing to robust wireless postpaid subscriber adds, low churn, an expanding U-verse user base and its cont...

Apple has declared a cash dividend of $.47 per share of the Company's common stock. The dividend is payable on November 13, 2014, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on November 10, 2014.

The First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund ETF (FTA) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Tuesday, with over 585,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 188,000.  Shares of FTA we...

In trading on Tuesday, the iShares Transportation Average ETF (IYT) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 2.7% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Southwest Airlines (LUV), ...