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Two months after Bill Gross quit Pacific Investment Management Co., the giant Pimco Total Return bond fund that he managed for 27 years is showing signs of stabilizing.

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 dollars to ...

Markets rise and dollar at its highest since 2009 as momentum grows for ECB to launch bond-buying program

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Wednesday, shares of Energy companies are outperforming other sectors, higher by 1.4%. Within that group, Cimarex Energy (NYSE: XEC) and Noble Energy (NYSE: NBL) are two la...

The US Federal Open Market Committee is embarking on a critical phase in its 7-year battle with a financial crisis, a recession and a sub-par recovery

Volume of all contracts on the exchange was 12,077 tonnes in the 10 months to October, compared with 11,614 tonnes during all of 2013

Bourse delayed trading on Wednesday over a software error in a system used by securities traders

Can you beat the market these days? Should you even try? Increasingly, the resounding answer for retirement investors is "no" and "save your money." Wall Street blows a lot of cash on the idea that everyone should someho...

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 company expects to take an $800 million charge during Q4 related to the writedown in value of the fleet. Schlumberger also intends to modify some low-end vessels into source boats while also canceling most leases on ...

Jules Bianchi "did not slow sufficiently to avoid losing control" during his crash at the Japanese Grand Prix, according to an FIA report published Wednesday.

It seems unlikely that Lincoln's edge over current leaders in the Chinese luxury car market will come from the quality of its products. However, the company is trying a new strategy. The company opened three new dealersh...

Despite the expected strong growth in the subscriber base, profit per subscriber will remain low due to significant content and marketing investments. The metric does not include allocated research & development expenses...

U.S. stocks wavered on Wednesday but rebounded in early trading. One day after the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit intraday and closing record highs, investors are now weighing a series of mixed data on the health of th...

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Money will be used to fund long-term infrastructure and housing projects

MasterCard (MA) has increased the company's quarterly cash dividend to 16 cents per share, a 45 percent increase over the previous dividend level of 11 cents per share. The cash dividend will be paid on February 9, 2015 ...

The SPDR S&P Dividend ETF (SDY) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Wednesday, with over 1.8 million shares traded versus three month average volume of about 631,000.  Shares of SDY were up about 0.3% o...

In trading on Wednesday, the Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 4.5% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Sandstorm Gold (SAND), up about 10....

In trading on Wednesday, water utilities shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 0.8%.  Helping drag down the group were shares of CADIZ (CDZI), off about 2.7% and shares of Consolidated Water (CWCO) dow...

In trading on Wednesday, precious metals shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 3.7%.  Leading the group were shares of Sandstorm Gold (SAND), up about 10.2% and shares of Silver Standard Resources (SSRI) ...

The net long-term effect of lower oil prices could actually become somewhat of a drag on U.S. GDP.