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The money raised by venture-capital firms hit $32.97 billion in 2014, a 62% increase over 2013 and the highest total since 2007, as investors seek to take advantage of a hot market for startup funding and initial public ...

Tesla Motors is on a collision course with the auto industry's giants like never before, but the CEO has no plans to stop cursing or obsessing about the tiniest design details.

Earnings season commences on Wall Street this week with six major U.S. banks slated to post quarterly financial results, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo & Company, Bank of America Corporation, Citigroup Inc.,...

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed the latest batch of the 20 most recent 13F filings for the 12/31/2014 reporting period, and noticed that Intel Corp (NASD: INTC) was held by 16 of these funds. When hedge fund manage...

The worst performing sector as of midday Monday is the Energy sector, showing a 3.4% loss. Within that group, Newfield Exploration (NYSE: NFX) and ONEOK (NYSE: OKE) are two large stocks that are lagging, showing a loss o...

Falling commodity prices, easing interest rates and strong interest from domestic retail investors will help many mid-cap stocks

The fact that inflation inched up to 5% for December compared with 4.38% in November shows that base effect is wearing off

It’s safe to say private equity will see more innovation this year than ever before, as investors actively adjust to the growing complexity and diversity of the asset class.

Hospitality Properties Trust (HPT) announced a regular quarterly common share distribution of $0.49 per common share. This distribution will be paid to HPT's common shareholders of record as of the close of business on J...

In trading on Monday, the Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 5.5% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Perseus Mining (PRU.CA), up about 22.6...

In our opinion, Pfizer is doing the right thing by entering licensing deals pertaining to oncology and investing in new and innovative areas such as gene therapy. If some of these partnerships succeed, its topline can re...

The company lost its lead in the U.S. to BMW last year, despite record sales, and will look to draw high growth from its single largest market going forward. One of the other key ploys for Mercedes to boost margin growth...

Facebook has several levers for further growth, including monetization of Instagram and roll out of new video ads to drive up advertising pricing.

Interestingly, Morgan Stanley has been expanding in the industry while sticking to the 3% limit laid out under the Volcker Rule for a bank's use of its own money in any private fund. The investment bank is actually capit...

In trading on Monday, precious metals shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 4%.  Leading the group were shares of Allied Nevada Gold (ANV), up about 16.2% and shares of First Majestic Silver (AG) up about...

We are valuing the Apple Watch division at about $30 billion using our discounted cash flow model. This represents over 4% of Apple's market cap. For perspective, that's as much as the market cap of the Swatch Group, the...

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 one noteworthy recent insider buy.

Oil prices could trade around $40 a barrel in the first half of the year as the glut of global crude supplies continues to grow, Goldman Sachs analysts forecast this week. Prices that low would force U.S. shale producers...

U.S. stocks turned lower Monday as the financial markets reckon with ever-cheaper oil and prepare for the start of another earnings season. Following last week's volatile trading week, the Dow dropped as much as 150 poin...

Trying to outguess the market can make a fool of anyone. Instead of trying to move in and out of the market, a better strategy is to buy quality stocks that you can ideally hold for the longer term. With that in mind, we...

The significant drop in the price of crude oil since October 2014 has made many investors take a second look at trading crude oil or crude oil related ETF's. Certainly the price drop of USO ETF from $45 down to $17.60 ha...

Consistently, one of the more popular stocks people enter into their stock options watchlist at Stock Options Channel is Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG). So this week we highlight one interesting put contract, and one in...