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Risk sentiment suffers fresh setback on Ebola in New York; Caterpillar, 3M earnings underpin sentiment

Saudi crude supplies down 328,000 bpd in September, according to industry source

A higher exemption for the federal estate tax is shifting the focus to minimizing capital-gains taxes and state levies. Here are the latest strategies.

We wrote a piece on October 16th entitled, Austrian Business Cycle Theory, Money Supply and Investment Success. In it we made the case that an investor armed with Austrian Business Cycle Theory (ABCT) has a competitive ...

In the latest look at the underlying components of the S&P 500 ordered by largest market capitalization, Pentair PLC (NYSE: PNR) has taken over the #303 spot from Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASD: WFM), according to The On...

A giant gold nugget found on public land over the summer was expected to sell for $350,000 at the San Francisco Fall Antiques Show this week. The six-pound so-called "Butte Nugget" was found by a gold hunter in the Butte...

Netflix (NFLX) reported earnings last Wednesday, and disappointing subscriber growth numbers promptly caused the stock to plummet 20%.

It was the last hour of the trading day, Thursday, when volatility hit the markets in a New York minute. Literally. Trading picked up on the New York Stock Exchange as news broke regarding Dr. Chris Spencer's admission ...

The worst performing sector as of midday Friday is the Energy sector, showing a 1.0% loss. Within that group, Southwestern Energy (NYSE: SWN) and Range Resources (NYSE: RRC) are two large stocks that are lagging, showing...

A better pricing environment for steel in North America in the third quarter of this year, as compared to the corresponding period a year ago, will boost the results of the company's Flat-rolled Products segment, which a...

Oil prices have fallen by over 20% in the last couple of months. Brent is currently trading $30 below its summer spike to $115 per barrel and many are left wondering what the Saudis are playing at. Based on conventional ...

We believe that, in the third quarter earnings release, the company will continue to report strong growth across most metrics, along with improvement in non-GAAP profitability margins. However, in the long run, we believ...

We expect lower crude oil prices to weigh on the company's year-on-year earnings growth. The average West Texas Intermediate crude oil spot price declined by almost 8% year-on-year during the third quarter on rising supp...

But the question that remains is: how will the revenue growth rate trend going forward? In this article, we analyze the drivers that have been responsible for Facebook's success over the past two years, and how the compa...

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 two noteworthy recent insider buys.

How are financial markets like college slackers? They hate midterms. Historically, midterm election years have been a real downer for the stock market. That is, until now, according to a handful of experts who look at fi...

In trading on Friday, shares of Idexx Laboratories, Inc. (NASD: IDXX) touched a new 52-week high of $140.42/share. That's a 38.58% rise, or $39.09 per share from the 52-week low of $101.33 set back on 12/12/2013. That me...

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed the latest batch of the 25 most recent 13F filings for the 09/30/2014 reporting period, and noticed that Schlumberger Ltd. (NYSE: SLB) was held by 15 of these funds. When hedge fund ...

The forty-third trading week of 2014 comes to a close with the S&P 500, NASDAQ composite and Dow Jones all higher in early-afternoon trading on Friday.

Some specialized funds are designed to hedge risk, but they may not be the best choice.

Looking back to 149 days ago, BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASD: BCRX) priced a $100,000,000 secondary stock offering at $10.00 per share. Buyers in that offering made a considerable investment into the company, expec...

Looking back to 163 days ago, NXP Semiconductors NV (NASD: NXPI) priced a 17,376,611 share secondary stock offering at $60.35 per share. Buyers in that offering made a considerable investment into the company, expecting ...