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Larger players may have locked in to higher prices and will have to bide their time for lower raw material prices to kick in

Corvex's Keith Meister, the onetime right-hand man of Carl Icahn, is earning a reputation of his own as an activist investor.

(Reuters) - Investors were spared immediate pain on Sunday after the European Central Bank's landmark banking health check did not force massive capital hikes amongst the euro zone's top lenders. But the sector's long-te...

This is a guest post by Shrey Verma, a graduate student at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. You can follow him on Twitter at @shrey7.

Regulator looking into multiple anonymous letters pertaining to pending litigation and grievances received by it

The unilateral change in the status quo of Japan's "nationalization" of the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands in September 2012 was a blunder of historic proportions not only, and not even primarily, of Japanese diplomacy, but more...

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Sierra Wireless has been unable to grow profits or earn positive returns on capital over any meaningful amount of time and the stock's valuation already reflects alarmingly high expectations for future profit growth.

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed the latest batch of the 21 most recent 13F filings for the 09/30/2014 reporting period, and noticed that United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) was held by 10 of these funds. When hed...

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Monday, shares of Technology & Communications companies are outperforming other sectors, higher by 0.3%. Within that group, Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) and Micron Technol...

In afternoon trading on Monday, Energy stocks are the worst performing sector, showing a 2.5% loss. Within that group, Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) and Helmerich & Payne (NYSE: HP) are two large stocks that are lagging, showi...

Some of the world's most prized coffee beans are sold at online auctions, where buyers from Asia increasingly dominate bidding that can bring prices as high as $100 a pound or more.

The S&P 500, NASDAQ Composite and Dow Jones Industrial Average are all slighly lower in early afternoon trading on Monday. Some of the most actively traded stocks include Ford (F) trading flat, Bank of America (BAC) down...

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...

On 10/29/14, Banco Santander SA's Series C Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock (NYSE: SOV.PRC) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.4562, payable on 11/17/14. As a percentage of SOV.PRC's recent ...

The revenue growth was below expectations, as it rose just 3.4% year-over-year (y-o-y), primarily driven by increased royalty income due to system-wide sales growth offset by declines in ice-cream product sales. The incr...

On 10/29/14, PG&E Corp.'s 6% 1st Preferred Non-Redeemable (AMEX: PCG.PRA) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.375, payable on 11/15/14. As a percentage of PCG.PRA's recent share price of $27.83, this...

The maker of mining and construction equipment was able to grow its profits even as its top line remained flattish, as gains from the company's cost cutbacks and its locomotives and oil & gas equipment growth outweighed ...

On 10/29/14, Realty Income Corp.'s 6.625% Monthly Income Class F Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (NYSE: O.PRF) will trade ex-dividend, for its monthly dividend of $0.1380, payable on 11/17/14. As a percentage of O....

On 10/29/14, Lexington Realty Trust's 6.50% Series C Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock (NYSE: LXP.PRC) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.8125, payable on 11/17/14. As a percentage of LXP.PRC's...

On 10/29/14, Kilroy Realty Corp's 6.375% Series H Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (NYSE: KRC.PRH) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.3984, payable on 11/17/14. As a percentage of KRC.PRH's rec...

On 10/29/14, F.N.B. Corp.'s Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series E (NYSE: FNB.PRE) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.4532, payable on 11/17/14. As a percentage of...