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Many small, regional real-estate investors are preparing for life after RadioShack files for bankruptcy and the store closings that may result.

The future of music might be streaming, but rather than buying into one of the internet's biggest radio companies investors are choosing to sell, sell and sell in Thursday's after-hours trading session. Shares of Pandora...

U.S. stocks rallied Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average soaring 200 points after crude oil prices rebounded and jumped 4 percent to close above $50 a barrel following the previous session's sharp 9 percent de...

Looking at the sectors faring worst as of midday Thursday, shares of Services companies are underperforming other sectors, up 0.2%. Within the sector, Twenty-First Century Fox (NASD: FOXA) and Scripps Networks Interactiv...

Just a day after the European Central Bank abruptly cut off a key source of Greek funding, Greece's new finance minister Yanis Varoufakis capped off his tour of Europe with a stop in Berlin to meet his German counterpart...

Union Pacific Corporation (UNP) voted today to increase the quarterly dividend on the company's common shares by 10 percent to 55 cents per share. The increased dividend is payable March 30, 2015, to shareholders of reco...

Analysis shows DIIs' total holdings rose to 8.38% in December quarter from 7.52% in September quarter

After earning more than $50 million in revenue from marijuana sales last year, Colorado may have to pay some of it back to residents, thanks to a tax law that puts a limit on how much the state can take in. The legal qui...

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Keurig Green Mountain Inc (NASD: GMCR), where a total volume of 65,400 contracts has been traded thus far t...

The Guggenheim Frontier Markets ETF (FRN) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Thursday, with over 556,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 60,000.  Shares of FRN were up about 0....

CVS Health remains unique in being an integrated healthcare service provider, with offerings such as pharmacy benefit management, specialty pharmacy and online retail pharmacies. It continues to grow in its core markets ...

In trading on Thursday, the PowerShares Dynamic Pharmaceuticals Portfolio ETF (PJP) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 3.2% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Hospira (H...

In trading on Thursday, paper & forest products shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 0.5%.  Helping drag down the group were shares of Clearwater Paper (CLW), down about 18.2% and shares of Louisiana ...

In trading on Thursday, oil & gas exploration & production shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 3.9%.  Leading the group were shares of Resolute Energy (REN), up about 25.7% and shares of Emerald Oil (EO...

But a bigger contributor to better profitability was a decline in advertising and publicity costs, which fell by 4% over the year ago period

The global equity markets saw companies across the globe raise just under $200 billion through IPOs and follow-on offerings in the last quarter of 2014 ? 9% below the $219 billion figure for Q3 2014 and a good 24% lower ...

The growth in subscription pricing will be led by the network's appeal and the annual price increases. Historical dollar increases in fees per subscriber are strong predictors of future growth. Contracts between content ...

While it is important for investors to have a tool to measure the success of an investment strategy against, it can be very misleading, and often misguided, if an investor chooses an index as their tool that is not consi...

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The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the components of the S&P 500 index, Zimmer Holdings (ZMH) is now the #63 analyst pick, moving up by 33 spots.         This ran...

Oil prices bounce from the prior session's selloff, with US crude up 5.3% to $51.04 and Brent up 4.9% to $56.81

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