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The aluminium market's demand-supply equation will be delicately poised in 2015, says Alcoa

The stock market's fear gauge is marching higher, as investors bet the big swings of recent days will become a fixture of 2015.

If you're a Netflix investor, you know the stock has been on a wild ride over the years. It's particularly turbulent around earnings season.

In 2014, a number of events will go down in history as major, market-moving events. From an economic viewpoint, though, perhaps no other event will have a more significant and long-lasting impact than the collapse of oil...

The most recent short interest data has just been released by the NASDAQ for the 12/31/2014 settlement date, and we here at Dividend Channel have sifted through this fresh data and screened out these five S&P 500 stocks....

The best performing sector as of midday Tuesday is the Utilities sector, losing just 0.1%. Within the sector, PG&E (NYSE: PCG) and Public Service Enterprise Group (NYSE: PEG) are two large stocks leading the way, showing...

Looking at the sectors faring worst as of midday Tuesday, shares of Materials companies are underperforming other sectors, showing a 1.8% loss. Within that group, Goodyear Tire & Rubber (NASD: GT) and Freeport-McMoran Co...

Pembina Pipeline (PBA) declared a common share cash dividend for January 2015 of $0.145 per share to be paid on February 13, 2015 to shareholders of record on January 25, 2015. For shareholders receiving their common sha...

The company reported outsized growth rates in cloud revenues on the back of Fieldglass and Concur acquisitions. It was also able to achieve its revised operating profit guidance despite transitioning to a ratable revenue...

The iShares MSCI USA Value Factor ETF (VLUE) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Tuesday, with over 1.1 million shares traded versus three month average volume of about 32,000.  Shares of VLUE were up a...

While we do not expect the current oil pricing environment to have worked its way into Schlumberger's earnings yet, given the long planning horizons and contract-driven nature of the services industry, the company's near...

In trading on Tuesday, the First Trust NYSE Arca Biotechnology Index Fund ETF (FBT) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 2.2% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Pharmacycl...

We believe that BlackRock is poised to report total quarterly revenues in excess of $3 billion and net quarterly earnings of $1 billion for the first time ever this quarter ? resulting in a diluted EPS just shy of $6 for...

In trading on Tuesday, general contractors & builders shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 2.9%.  Helping drag down the group were shares of KB Home (KBH), down about 13.9% and shares of Taylor Morris...

In trading on Tuesday, computer peripherals shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 2.8%.  Leading the group were shares of Emulex Corporation (ELX), up about 22.2% and shares of Immersion Corp (IMMR) up ab...

U.S. stocks opened higher Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average soaring more than 275 points, after aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. kicked off earnings season, beating Wall Street forecasts. Alcoa reported fourth-q...

With Virgin Hotels' first property opening this week in Chicago, billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson thinks he has found an edge: women.

The executive director of client investments at Taurus Wealth Advisors on the outlook for global markets, Asia and the rupee

Warhold offloads 6.95 million shares of ING Vysya on BSE and NSE

With the purchase of the Revel hotel, Glenn Straub wants to revitalize of Atlantic City, the seaside New Jersey town that has lost thousands of jobs and seen shrinking tax revenues as its casinos have failed.

The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the components of the S&P 500 index, General Growth Properties (GGP) is now the #6 analyst pick, moving up by 1 spot.         T...

WTI averaged $6.64 less than Brent last year, and traded as much as $15.45 lower than its European counterpart on 13 January 2014