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(Reuters) - The euro hit a nearly nine-year low versus the dollar on Monday as investors bet on quantitative easing by the European Central Bank while Asian shares were subdued as soft manufacturing surveys soured the mo...

Vietnam was supposed to raise the cap this year on foreign investment in listed companies. Now it’s supposed to do that toward the end of this year or maybe next, an obvious disappointment to offshore investors. Approv...

Morgan Stanley fired a financial adviser accused of stealing account information from 350,000 of its wealth-management clients, or about 10% of the firm's total, and posting some of the data on the Internet.

The euro is at a nine-year low, but it's not exactly a crisis for everyone. On Monday, the eurozone currency fell 1.2 percent against the U.S. dollar to hit $1.19, its lowest rate since March 2006.

U.S. oil prices tumbled below $50 a barrel Monday for the first time since April 2009, sending the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average plunging more than 300 points.

The top traded names among retail investors in 2014 were largely the usual suspects with Apple, State Street's S&P 500 tracking  ETF (SPY), Facebook, Twitter and Tesla Motors making up the top five. (This top five is ne...

Apple reigns once again as the top trade and top holding among TD Ameritrade's retail clients.

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed 3,611 13F filings for the 12/31/2014 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 best performing sector as of midday Monday is the Healthcare sector, losing just 0.7%. Within the sector, Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) and Zimmer Holdings (NYSE: ZMH) are two of the day's stand-outs, showing a gain ...

There are hopes that the Union budget will usher in some of the reforms the markets have been looking forward to

Announcements on new power plants, requiring investments close to Rs1 trillion, were made in both the September and December quarters

The currency fluctuations are likely to affect revenue growth in dollar terms by 100-220 basis points for top IT firms, said a Centrum Broking report

The last trading week for 2014 saw bank shares mirror the larger equity market, with gains seen on Monday, December 29 being erased completely by a sharp decline on Wednesday. Investor sentiments remained high at the beg...

The online travel sales figure is estimated to be growing at 12% annually. OTAs have 15% of total hotel sales in the U.S. with around $19 billion of gross bookings and are expected to grow 5-6% over the next two years. O...

Bank stocks outperformed the larger market for the year, as investors reacted positively to news of an increase in benchmark interest rates by the Fed in the near future - something that will finally ease the pressure on...

Mobile supercomputing, as the company terms it, will be central to tomorrow's car, in Nvidia's view. Automotive electronics is a large market and is going through a transition as cars have increased computing capability ...

U.S. stocks dropped Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbling more than 200 points, after the price of oil tumbled to its lowest level since 2009. Brent crude, the global benchmark for oil prices, dropped be...

Exchange awaits approval to launch fresh contracts after it says it submitted net worth and business plans, as asked by Sebi

Funds to be utilized towards purchase of equipment and accessories for production and broadcasting; repayment of loans

Dow Jones falls 1.31%, S&P 500 loses 1.32%, Nasdaq drops 0.89%

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) has declared a cash dividend for the first quarter of 2015 of $0.70 per share on the company's common stock. The dividend is payable on March 10, 2015 to shareholders of record at the close of bus...

The iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF (IXUS) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Monday, with over 7.1 million shares traded versus three month average volume of about 110,000.  Shares of ...