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Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company, sold $8bn worth of dollar bonds in its first US debt issuance

Beneficiaries can clash with the people who oversee a trust. Here's how to manage a delicate relationship.

China, the world's biggest metals consumer unexpectedly cut rates, boosting shares in the mining companies

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

If Russia implements a ban on the use of cloud-based data storage services beginning in 2015, the consequences of such a decision will be interesting for investors to watch. Ironically there is a chance that such a ban, ...

The best performing sector as of midday Friday is the Materials sector, up 1.1%. Within that group, Allegheny Technologies (NYSE: ATI) and Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold (NYSE: FCX) are two large stocks leading the way, ...

Looking at the sectors faring worst as of midday Friday, shares of Services companies are underperforming other sectors, up 0.1%. Within the sector, GameStop (NYSE: GME) and The Gap (NYSE: GPS) are two large stocks that ...

As Black Friday creeps earlier and earlier into the week, the U.S. retail sector will be front and center for investors next week, as the holiday shopping season officially kicks off --bookended by what can only be refer...

Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo, has more animal species than any other nature preserve in Africa, including 25 percent of the world's endangered mountain gorillas. Another of the park's natural wonde...

The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the components of the S&P 500 index, XL Group (XL) is now the #141 analyst pick, moving up by 3 spots.

Equity bulls, which nearly everyone is these days, received some supposed great news today from two of the world’s most prominent central banks. First, with its next policy meeting less than two weeks away, European Ce...

Investors should be watching global economies and markets for heads up on when Fed will hike rates.

Outliving your money is a huge worry for people in or thinking about retirement. How to avoid that fate is a specialty of AdviceIQ advisor Jeff Rose, the founder of Alliance Wealth Management in Carbondale, Ill.

We expect the company's earnings to improve on a sequential basis, driven by higher project sales, a possibly more favorable geographic shipment mix for panels and slightly lower polysilicon costs. During the previous qu...

Refineries are always considered strategic assets whether under public or private ownership. In a market riddled with cyclical volatility of the sort that is only too obvious at the moment, refinery operators face substa...

The acquisition is a significant boost to Alcoa's aerospace revenue. It grows Alcoa's aerospace revenue in 2013 by 20% on a pro forma basis, from $4 billion to $4.8 billion. The acquisition will boost Alcoa's overall rev...

Quarterly revenues for Q3FY15 stood at $1.383 billion, higher than its earlier guidance of $1.365 billion-$1.37 billion. However, the growth rate slipped during the quarter, declining from 37% in Q3FY14 to 30% in Q3FY15....

This announcement comes in the wake of various online-investment advisers and digital investment advisers that have sprung up and led large brokerage firms such as Schwab, Ameritrade and Fidelity to respond. Schwab plans...

In addition to sharing additional details for its "Knights Landing" platform (a 14 nm product), Intel announced the "Knight Hill" platform (10 nm) for its Xeon Phi co-processor line used in HPC supercomputer systems. "Kn...

Institutional investors are getting more bang for their buck in low-cost separate accounts and other alternatives to classic funds, encouraging managers to combat thinning profit margins by targeting individual investors...

Columnist Morgan Housel writes an open letter to his generation of investors.

NIKE (NKE) has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.28 per share on the Company's outstanding Class A and Class B Common Stock. The $0.28 quarterly dividend, which is payable on January 5, 2015, to shareholders of re...