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

Four years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, giant new oil projects are returning to the Gulf of Mexico--bigger and more expensive than ever.

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.

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 ...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

F1 championship leader Lewis Hamilton feels like a "kid at Christmas" thanks to the dominance of his Mercedes car which was underlined again Friday as he set the fastest time in both practices for the Abu Dhabi Grand Pri...

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...

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...

The PowerShares Dynamic Oil & Gas Services Portfolio ETF (PXJ) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 424,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 36,000. Shares of PXJ...

In trading on Friday, the SPDR S&P China ETF (GXC) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 3.3% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Soufun Holdings (SFUN), up about 17.2% and sh...