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After years of sluggish growth, the U.S. economy is bouncing back. San Francisco also got a little rain last week. Both predict, on average, roughly nothing about future market returns.

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed the latest batch of the 32 most recent 13F filings for the 09/30/2014 reporting period, and noticed that Occidental Petroleum Corp (NYSE: OXY) was held by 17 of these funds. When hed...

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed the latest batch of the 23 most recent 13F filings for the 09/30/2014 reporting period, and noticed that Intel Corp (NASD: INTC) was held by 15 of these funds. When hedge fund manage...

Looking at the sectors faring worst as of midday Friday, shares of Healthcare companies are underperforming other sectors, showing a 0.8% loss. Within that group, DaVita HealthCare Partners (NYSE: DVA) and Tenet Healthca...

In afternoon trading on Friday, Energy stocks are the best performing sector, up 1.7%. Within that group, Diamond Offshore Drilling (NYSE: DO) and Newfield Exploration (NYSE: NFX) are two large stocks leading the way, sh...

The November 4th election created a new majority in Congress. With the Republicans now in control, what will change? Senator David Vitter (R) of Louisiana says we will see more pro-growth legislation for the president to...

3M, Honeywell and Johnson Controls reported low to mid-single digit growth in revenues. Corning reported double digit growth primarily due to the consolidation of Corning Precision Materials. Caterpillar continued to suf...

The company increased its profit margin on production operations from 82.2% in the third quarter last year to 87.3% this year. Additionally, it also managed to lower its operating costs, completed the sale of several non...

At 55.2%, gross margins declined by 90 basis points sequentially (in line with company expectations) as higher GPU margins for PC platforms as well as datacenter and cloud GPUs were partially offset by the impact of Tegr...

Over the last 18 months, increases in both volumes and operating profits have been positive for Mercedes, which is now bang in the middle of its product offensive strategy, and aims to topple BMW by the end of this decad...

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...

As the sport faces a financial crisis, Ed Foster, online editor of Motorsport magazine, explores the history of F1 sponsorship.

In trading on Friday, shares of Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF) touched a new 52-week low of $38.00/share. That's a $45.51 share price drop, or -54.50% decline from the 52-week high of $83.51 set back on 01/08/2014. Large per...

The end to supposedly scary October and 10 stock picks

Falling crude oil prices are forcing developers in Canada's oil sands region to rethink their expansion plans. But the economic challenges are unlikely to reduce the need for the Keystone XL pipeline to Texas, energy ana...

U.K. real-estate company Songbird Estates, which owns 69% of London's Canary Wharf estate, said it rejected a bid approach from Qatar Investment Authority and Brookfield Property Partners as it "significantly undervalues...

Many tax-saving strategies require action by year-end. Here's what to do before it's too late.

Air Lease Corporation (AL) declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.04 per share on our outstanding common stock, representing a $0.01 increase from our previous quarterly cash dividend. The dividend will be paid on Janu...

The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the components of the S&P 500 index, Qualcomm (QCOM) is now the #91 analyst pick, moving up by 1 spot.         This rank is for...

”And away they go” is the well-known PA announcement heard at the beginning of every horse race in Del Mar, California.  However, we often realize that the fastest horse doesn’t always win the race.  Invariably, ...

Most Americans are familiar with Apple, Exxon Mobil, Microsoft, and Google—huge companies, whose products many of us interact with on a daily basis. But how about General Communications, Inc.?

The Uranium ETF (URA) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 340,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 239,000.  Shares of URA were up about 9.1% on the day.