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(Reuters) - Activity in China's factory sector shrank for the first time in seven months in December, a private survey showed on Wednesday, highlighting the urgency behind a series of surprise easing moves by Beijing in ...

U.S. stocks dropped Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing below the 18,000 milestone as concerns about Greece's failure to elect a new president, coupled with declining oil prices, weighed on the global ...

U.S. equities closed the last trading day of 2014 down for the day but up for the year, finishing out a year that brought us ISIS, Ebola and a spate of other depressing headlines.

A lap of the Interlagos track for the penultimate race in the 2014 calendar.

U.S. stocks edged higher Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbing above the 18,000 milestone, as investors shrugged off mixed jobless claims data during the last day of trading for 2014. Meanwhile, Brent...

Brent and West Texas Intermediate futures dropped to the lowest levels since May 2009 on Wednesday, capping the worst year since 2008

Indeed, the market has risen in most periods when the Federal Reserve tightens, columnist Morgan Housel says.

ear Shareholder:As I look back at 2014, I realize that in this age of rapidly evolving technology, information is delivered and absorbed so quickly that it is difficult to remember what happened last week, let alone what...

Russia rushed to complete a bailout of banks ahead of the New Year holiday, injecting more than $700 million into OAO Gazprombank, the country's third-largest lender.

Trina Solar had a reasonably good year, driven by strong demand growth, stabilizing average selling prices and its increasing focus on the downstream solar market. The company's revenues are poised to rise by around 20% ...

Harley's stock has taken a hit this year, declining by 4%, mainly as the demand in the U.S. remained weak in the early part of the year, and the recovery in Europe was slower than expected. The company also lowered its f...

The sale of the bank's commodities positions comes within weeks of Credit Suisse's decision to scale down its prime brokerage unit. At the same time, the sale highlights Citigroup's determination to grow its commodities ...

Google's stock underperformed the market in 2014 as the stock declined by 3% compared to 16% return on NASDAQ composite index. During the year, the company increased its focus on growing penetration in the hardware space...

Physicians Realty Trust (DOC) has authorized and the Company has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.225 per common share for the quarter ending December 31, 2014.

The MLP and Energy Infrastructure ETF (MLPX) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Wednesday, with over 502,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 81,000.  Shares of MLPX were up abo...

A Wall Street analyst has upgraded GrubHub's stock, making the case for why the food ordering service can grow its user base, boost its bottom line, and possibly forge a partnership with a company like Uber or Priceline.

In trading on Wednesday, the SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (XBI) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 1.7% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Chimerix (CMRX), up about 6.5% and sha...

In trading on Wednesday, oil & gas exploration & production shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 0.7%.  Helping drag down the group were shares of Cypress Energy Partners (CELP), off about 5.6% and sh...

In trading on Wednesday, agriculture & farm products shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 1.7%.  Leading the group were shares of Agria (GRO), up about 6.7% and shares of CVR Partners (UAN) up about 3% o...

The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the components of the S&P 500 index, Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL) is now the #62 analyst pick, moving up by 1 spot.         Th...

In a study of analyst recommendations at the major brokerages, for the underlying components of the S&P 500, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (NYSE: RCL) has taken over the #62 spot from Snap-On, Inc. (NYSE: SNA), according ...

S&P 500 up 0.07% at 2,081.77 points; Nasdaq Composite up 0.2% at 4,787.21; and Dow Jones up 0.18% at 18,015.13