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Looking at units outstanding versus one week prior within the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, the biggest outflow was seen in the PowerShares Senior Loan Portfolio (BKLN), where 10,500,000 units were destroyed, ...

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed 3,607 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...

Investment banks in Asia are finishing up their busiest year since 2010, helped by strong IPO activity and especially Alibaba's record offering.

When hedge fund manager "titans" think alike, investors are wise to pay attention. At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed 3,607 13F filings for the 09/30/2014 reporting period, and noticed that eBay Inc. (NASD: EBAY) was ...

The S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, and NASDAQ Composite are lower in afternoon trading on Monday. Some of the most actively traded stocks include Bank of America (BAC) down 0.95%, Apple (AAPL) down 0.43%, Sirius ...

In afternoon trading on Monday, Services stocks are the best performing sector, losing just 0.1%. Within that group, PetSmart (NASD: PETM) and Staples (NASD: SPLS) are two of the day's stand-outs, showing a gain of 4.4% ...

The worst performing sector as of midday Monday is the Utilities sector, showing a 1.2% loss. Within that group, AES (NYSE: AES) and NRG Energy (NYSE: NRG) are two large stocks that are lagging, showing a loss of 3.0% an...

This week could be another volatile period in global financial markets, following Japan's snap elections Sunday, in which Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his ruling Liberal Democratic Party maintained a supermajority. Comi...

GE (GE) raised the Company's quarterly dividend 5%, or $0.01 per outstanding share of the Company's common stock, to $0.23 per outstanding share of the Company's common stock. The Board declared that the dividend is paya...

On 12/17/14, Retail Properties of America, Inc's 7.00% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (NYSE: RPAI.PRA) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.4375, payable on 12/31/14. As a percentage o...

On 12/17/14, Hudson Pacific Properties Inc's 8.375% Series B Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (NYSE: HPP.PRB) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.5234, payable on 12/30/14. As a percentage of HP...

Over 90% of economists in a survey forecast the European Central Bank will begin large scale buying of government bonds next year

On 12/17/14, First Republic Bank's 7.00% Noncumulative Perpetual Series E Preferred Stock (NYSE: FRC.PRE) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.4375, payable on 12/30/14. As a percentage of FRC.PRE's r...

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 ...

Aversion to the firm is turning out to be one of the year's worst blunders for money managers, who trail benchmark indices by the most in almost a decade

The hospitality industry was severely hit during the recession period and it has been recovering since then. Likewise, Hyatt has seen recovery in Asia Pacific operations and the room revenues grew to $1.26 billion in 201...

Economic growth in developed economies is expected to accelerate to 2.3% in 2015 from 1.8% in 2014. Strengthening global economic growth augurs well for jewelry demand for gold. This will partially offset the decline in ...

Looking at the first three quarters, studio's revenues stood at $5.39 billion, up 20% over the prior year period. The studio revenues include box-office revenues, home entertainment and studio's TV distribution revenues....

The company once again reported faster-than-expected adoption of subscription licenses for its Creative Cloud business, as more of its clients chose annual subscription plans. The company reported over 3.454 million paid...

The Retail ETF (RTH) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Monday, with over 309,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 51,000.  Shares of RTH were up about 0.1% on the day.

In trading on Monday, the Oil Services ETF (OIH) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 0.7% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Diamond Offshore Drilling (DO), up about 4.7%...

In trading on Monday, precious metals shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 2.5%.  Helping drag down the group were shares of Comstock Mining (LODE), down about 13% and shares of Paramount Gold and Sil...