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Another salvo has been fired in the ongoing ETF war and you, dear investor, are the winner.

The day after Keurig Green Mountain -- then Green Mountain Coffee -- reported first quarter earnings last year the stock surged a stunning 26% and then kept on climbing.

U.S. stocks closed lower Wednesday, with the blue-chip Dow swinging between negative and positive territory in the last hour of trading, after the European Central Bank said it is blocking banks from using Greek debt as ...

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed the latest batch of the 33 most recent 13F filings for the 12/31/2014 reporting period, and noticed that Emerson Electric Co. (NYSE: EMR) was held by 18 of these funds. When hedge fu...

It may be 2015, but hedge funds are revisiting 1990s-era merger ideas like a marriage of Staples and Office Depot.

The worst performing sector as of midday Wednesday is the Energy sector, showing a 2.9% loss. Within that group, Noble Corp (NYSE: NE) and Transocean (NYSE: RIG) are two of the day's laggards, showing a loss of 6.7% and ...

In afternoon trading on Wednesday, Technology & Communications stocks are the best performing sector, up 0.2%. Within that group, Cognizant Technology Solutions (NASD: CTSH) and Western Digital (NASD: WDC) are two large ...

The request, part of the market intermediaries' pre-budget lobbying, has been a key one ever since the tax was introduced

ConocoPhillips (COP) announced a quarterly dividend of 73 cents per share, payable March 2, 2015 to stockholders of record at the close of business on Feb. 17, 2015.

The American gaming giant, Activision Blizzard, is scheduled to announce its annual report for the fiscal 2014 year on February 5. According to the research group NPD, the gaming industry managed to overtake 2013 sales ...

As expected, the company's results were negatively impacted by lower realized iron ore and coal prices. However, Cliffs' cost rationalization efforts helped offset some of the negative effects of a weak commodities prici...

The BDC Income ETF (BIZD) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Wednesday, with over 428,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 45,000.  Shares of BIZD were off about 0.5% on the day...

In trading on Wednesday, the Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 2% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Perseus Mining (PRU.CA), up about 9.4...

In trading on Wednesday, oil & gas exploration & production shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 3.3%.  Helping drag down the group were shares of Rex Energy (REXX), down about 11.7% and shares of Par...

GAAP earnings per share suffered from mark-to-market pension adjustments, to reach $0.49, compared to $1.25 in 2013. UPS' poor performance comes as a result of higher than expected operating expenses incurred in order to...

In trading on Wednesday, airlines shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 2%.  Leading the group were shares of XPO Logistics (XPO), up about 7.9% and shares of China Southern Airlines Company (ZNH) up abou...

News Corp will report its fiscal Q2 2015 earnings on February 5th. (Fiscal years end with June.) While we expect continued growth in its digital real estate business, the weakness in print industry may lead to a further ...

Chinese retail giant Alibaba announced this week that it would extend loans to U.S. businesses eager to trade with Chinese manufacturers. But the entity on the money end of the landmark partnership wasn't a household nam...

U.S. stocks dropped Wednesday, as oil prices turned negative after U.S. crude inventories rose more than expected last week, surging to an 80-year high. Oil prices have lost nearly 50 percent of their value since last su...

The World Bank is conducting an internal investigation into the way a $1 billion loan from China was transferred to the bank's poverty fund.

Few individual investors have quite as much capital to deploy as Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal of Saudi Arabia. Through his Kingdom Holding, he holds significant stakes in companies including Citigroup, Twitter - and, until ...

The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the 30 stocks making up the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Travelers Companies (TRV) is the #26 analyst pick.  Within the broader S&P ...