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Such a move will likely result in wider investor participation in first-time share sales and lead to better price discovery

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

The Standard & Poor's 500 Index added 0.2% at 2.44pm in New York, paring gains after S&P cut its rating on Italy's debt

Stocks are trading higher on technical momentum not improving fundamentals, which requires a different kind of investment strategy. As stocks move higher investors should be booking profits and reducing the dollars inves...

Publicly traded real estate investment trusts (REITs) are one of the most popular and well-known ways of providing investors with access to income-producing commercial real estate and allow for investment in multiple rea...

The current bull market has lasted 5.8 years. Is it in another super bull market that lasts 9 or 10 years like the 1990's bull market? There are some spooky similarities?

When hedge fund manager "titans" think alike, investors are wise to pay attention. At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed 3,603 13F filings for the 09/30/2014 reporting period, and noticed that Citigroup Inc (NYSE: C) was...

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed 3,603 13F filings for the 09/30/2014 reporting period, and looked at the various S&P 500 components held by each of these reporting hedge funds and other 13F filers. For each compone...

The dramatic drop in global oil prices, coupled with soaring U.S. energy production, is helping to ease America's trade deficit, the U.S. Commerce Department reported Friday. The deficit dipped slightly to $43.4 billion ...

Looking at the sectors faring worst as of midday Friday, shares of Utilities companies are underperforming other sectors, showing a 1.1% loss. Within the sector, Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) and Consolidated Edison (NYSE: ED)...

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Friday, shares of Financial companies are outperforming other sectors, up 0.8%. Within that group, Zions Bancorporation (NASD: ZION) and Charles Schwab (NYSE: SCHW) are two...

During the past week, Deere and Corning announced their quarterly dividends. Though Deere's quarterly dividend remained the same, Corning increased its dividends significantly and announced a share buyback. Johnson Contr...

We believe the growing mobile business, which now accounts for 55% of overall bookings, represents the key positive for the company. While the overall engagement levels are declining, the mobile side is picking up and is...

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 ...

The plant will employ 400 employees, include an education and business center, and have an annual production capacity of 24,000 vehicles, approximately 5% of the net vehicles sold by JLR in the last twelve months. The ne...

If anyone needed further convincing that Saudi Arabia means business in tumultuous oil markets, national oil company Saudi Aramco’s latest move should bury doubts once and for all. Making a trading call this week, Aram...

Arrangers for C&J Energy Services late yesterday postponed syndication of the issuer’s M&A loan, citing market conditions, sources said. The company’s merger with a unit of Nabors Industries isn’t expected to clo...

Take a Formula One car, splice it in two and what do you get? A fascinating insight into the inner workings of one of sport's most complicated and expensive pieces of kit.

The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the components of the S&P 500 index, Pentair (PNR) is now the #171 analyst pick, moving up by 1 spot.         This rank is form...

The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the 30 stocks making up the Dow Jones Industrial Average, McDonald's (MCD) is the #26 analyst pick.  Within the broader S&P 500, when...

Former F1 driver Heinz Harald-Frentzen takes us through the big changes for the F1 season in 2015.

U.S. stocks soared on Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting a record high, after the U.S. economy added the most new jobs in nearly three years last month. The S&P 500 Index, which tracks the share prices...