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A look at the partnership of Valeant CEO Michael Pearson and activist investor William Ackman in their failed $53 billion bid to acquire Allergan shows that the two men didn't always see eye to eye.

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Thursday, shares of Energy companies are outperforming other sectors, higher by 1.6%. Within that group, QEP Resources (NYSE: QEP) and Noble Energy (NYSE: NBL) are two of t...

In afternoon trading on Thursday, Healthcare stocks are the worst performing sector, showing a 0.2% loss. Within that group, Actavis (NYSE: ACT) and Perrigo Company (NYSE: PRGO) are two large stocks that are lagging, sho...

Rupee weakness should be welcomed because in the past few months the real effective exchange rate indicator of the rupee has shown overvaluation by 6%, according to RBI data

Cliffs CEO Laurenco Goncalves has mostly been cast aside a turnaround plan proposed by activist hedge fund Casablanca Capital.

There can be almost 20% upside to our price estimate if Akamai can increase its revenue per media customer to $1.5 million in the next six to seven years. That scenario may not be unlikely, considering the recent demand ...

Alibaba's notes will be rated A+, or the fifth-highest investment-grade ranking, by Standard & Poor's and an equivalent A1 by Moody's Investors Service

Of late, stringent emission standards have forced automobile manufacturers to increasingly adopt the use of efficient emission filters and substrates to curb emissions. Over the past few quarters, these trends have been ...

While Kotak is a predominantly west India-based bank with 40% of its branches in Maharashtra and Gujarat, two-thirds of ING Vysya's branches are in the southern states

While it is true there are many problems in Ukraine, the fact that the economy has shrunk in the last 20 years must be a key issue leading to discontent

We expect Oracle to maintain its leadership position in the database market, primarily in the RDBMS space. However, NoSQL databases are expected to play a crucial role going forward in handling operations such as marketi...

In our opinion, United is on the right track, as it is steadily growing its profit and reducing its debt and pension liabilities. Even though the carrier is behind its peers ? Delta and American ? when it comes to profit...

The average cost of feeding 10 people for Thanksgiving has risen slightly from last year, in part because of lower turkey production and higher wholesale prices of some turkey dinner staples, according to the American Fa...

MCX-SX is claiming damages for losses suffered due to NSE's zero-pricing strategy in currency derivatives segment

The start of the seasonally favorable period in which stocks historically have enjoyed terrific performance

A growing coterie of entrepreneurs are selling analysis of obscure data sets to traders in search of even the smallest edges.

New data show more homeowners are taking such cash-out loans, including for renovations, but there are risks.

Shareholders of Corporate Executive Board Co. (NYSE: CEB) looking to boost their income beyond the stock's 1.4% annualized dividend yield can sell the March 2015 covered call at the $75 strike and collect the premium bas...

The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the components of the S&P 500 index, AES Corp. (AES) is now the #124 analyst pick, moving up by 1 spot.

The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the 30 stocks making up the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Travelers Companies (TRV) is the #19 analyst pick. Within the broader S&P 50...

The Retail ETF (RTH) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Thursday, with over 43,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 34,000. Shares of RTH were up about 0.5% on the day.

Looking at units outstanding versus one week prior within the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, the biggest outflow was seen in the SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF (XOP), where 4,400,000 units were...