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Investors, convinced that abundant supplies and strong production are more than enough to withstand the current cold snap, sent natural-gas prices to a 2½-year low.

One thing that many investors understand is that “the miracle of compounding” plays a major role in total return, especially when combined with the advantage of time. Much of that compounding comes from dividends, wh...

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed the latest batch of the 24 most recent 13F filings for the 12/31/2014 reporting period, and noticed that Honeywell International, Inc. (NYSE: HON) was held by 11 of these funds. When...

The fifth full trading week of 2015 comes to a close with the Dow Jones, S&P 500 and NASDAQ composite all lower in afternoon trading on Friday.

U.S. stocks edged higher Friday after investors cheered a stronger-than-expected jobs report that marked the longest stretch of job gains above the 200,000 level since 1994. However, the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Av...

In his quarterly investment letter recently, billionaire activist investor Bill Ackman gave us clues on selecting stocks that can become big winners.

His fortune took a more than $800 million hit after releasing dismal earnings that lead to a massive Ralph Lauren sell-off across the stock market.

It's a bit of inside baseball in the money management world, but some advisors lean toward using index funds for their clients and some prefer exchange-traded funds (ETFs). We use ETFs at MarketRiders, but we use ETFs ...

In afternoon trading on Friday, Utilities stocks are the worst performing sector, showing a 3.3% loss. Within that group, SCANA (NYSE: SCG) and FirstEnergy (NYSE: FE) are two of the day's laggards, showing a loss of 4.6%...

GE (GE) declared a $0.23 per share dividend on the outstanding common stock of the Company payable April 27, 2015 to shareowners of record at the close of business on February 23, 2015. The ex-dividend date is February 1...

With the April 15 deadline looming, here are the hidden hazards that can cost taxpayers money--or get them in trouble with the IRS.

The WisdomTree LargeCap Dividend Fund ETF (DLN) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 772,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 149,000.  Shares of DLN were off ab...

In trading on Friday, the iShares U.S. Regional Banks ETF (IAT) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 1.9% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Regions Financial (RF), up abo...

In trading on Friday, precious metals shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 3.8%.  Helping drag down the group were shares of Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), down about 8.4% and shares of Richmont Mines (RIC...

The company maintained its solid growth momentum as it reached a 19th consecutive quarter of an over 20% increase, and a 5th consecutive quarter of over a 30% increase, in its top line. We believe the company will contin...

In trading on Friday, general contractors & builders shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 1.8%.  Leading the group were shares of PulteGroup (PHM), up about 4% and shares of Standard Pacific Corporation ...

Global medical device maker Boston Scientific continued to sustain its momentum and delivered strong fourth quarter results with its sales reaching $1.89 billion, a 7% year-over-year (y-o-y) increase in its operational r...

Yelp reported a substantial improvement in net income, which grew to $32.7 million, as the company benefited from deferred tax asset adjustments. Yelp's adjusted EBITDA also improved significantly to $25.1 million in Q3 ...

Revenues rose 10% year-over-year to €129.9 billion ($150 billion) in the year, and the group sold a total of 2.54 million vehicles, up 8% from 2013 levels. Mercedes, along with the vans segment, forms 62.4% of Daimler'...

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 two noteworthy recent insider buys.

Investors are beginning to accept that they may have to take short-term losses on bonds for long-term capital gain

For the full year 2015, Pandora has guided revenues between $1.15-$1.17 billion, some way below the consensus estimate of $1.21 billion. Although the company's results and guidance missed estimates by a fair margin, 20% ...