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Shareholders of Polaris Industries Inc. (NYSE: PII) looking to boost their income beyond the stock's 1.3% annualized dividend yield can sell the January 2016 covered call at the $170 strike and collect the premium based ...

Wells Fargo, the largest U.S. commercial-property lender, is pushing deeper into Europe amid worries about the strength of the U.K. market and as eurozone countries slide toward recession.

Sky-high prices for buildings in central Tokyo--part of one property sold for $1.7 billion--have investors looking elsewhere in Japan.

Markets began trading in positive territory Wednesday before taking a nasty turn shortly after noon.

Limited competition in commodity futures, focus on non-agriculture commodities, energy pays off for exchange

The worst performing sector as of midday Wednesday is the Energy sector, showing a 1.2% loss. Within that group, Helmerich & Payne (NYSE: HP) and Cimarex Energy (NYSE: XEC) are two of the day's laggards, showing a loss o...

In afternoon trading on Wednesday, Utilities stocks are the best performing sector, higher by 0.5%. Within the sector, NRG Energy (NYSE: NRG) and PG&E (NYSE: PCG) are two of the day's stand-outs, showing a gain of 2.4% a...

The Hindu calendar year kicks off with hopes of quick action to lift sagging economic growth

Position limits of members in farm commodities will be linked to estimated production and import of that particular commodity

Simon declared a quarterly common stock dividend of $1.30 per share. This is a year-over-year increase of 8.3%. The dividend will be payable on November 28, 2014 to stockholders of record on November 14, 2014.

The PowerShares Dynamic Large Cap Growth Portfolio ETF (PWB) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Wednesday, with over 141,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 33,000.  Shares of ...

In trading on Wednesday, the iShares U.S. Utilities ETF (IDU) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 0.7% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of NRG Energy (NRG), up about 2.5% ...

In trading on Wednesday, precious metals shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 3%.  Helping drag down the group were shares of Coeur Mining (CDE), down about 12.4% and shares of Almaden Minerals (AAU) ...

In trading on Wednesday, sporting goods & activities shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 1.4%.  Leading the group were shares of Six Flags Entertainment (SIX), up about 12.6% and shares of Cedar Fair (F...

The company delivered unimpressive results in its second quarter results, as the comparable store sales of the Dunkin' Donuts U.S. segment increased just 1.8%, much lower than the company's expectation of 3 -4% growth. A...

When Nokia comes out with its third quarter results, we expect its overall sales decline to improve from last quarter's figure of about 10%. The company has built a strong pipeline of orders on a number of recent contrac...

For 2014, the automaker anticipates the full year profits to be in the region of $7 billion to $8 billion. The cautious guidance on profits reflects the company's plans for a comprehensive re-haul of the company's produc...

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...

The perennially losing Angie's List took another blow Wednesday as losses exceeded investors expectations.

The company reported a marked slowdown in business due to weak client spending and an anemic demand in software sector. As a result, the company reported 4% year-over-year decline in revenues to $22.39 billion (excluding...

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed the latest batch of the 22 most recent 13F filings for the 09/30/2014 reporting period, and noticed that Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) was held by 14 of these funds. When hedge fun...

This Sunday sees the release of two crucial assessments of the European banking system, which are hoped will shine enough of a light into the system that it begins functioning properly again – and only five years after...