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A cadre of sometimes controversial property magnates are back in another go-go era for the Middle East's capital of bling.

The Outlook: Easing steps by central banks have ricocheted through foreign-exchange markets, driving the currencies of some countries down and those of others, primarily the U.S., up.

Apple has a very large positive impact to the S&P 500's earnings while Exxon and the energy sector pulled it down.

In afternoon trading on Monday, Energy stocks are the best performing sector, higher by 0.8%. Within that group, Transocean  (NYSE: RIG) and Noble Corp (NYSE: NE) are two large stocks leading the way, showing a gain of ...

Looking at the sectors faring worst as of midday Monday, shares of Healthcare companies are underperforming other sectors, showing a 1.2% loss. Within that group, Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE: EW) and Tenet Healthcare (NYS...

Options debut part of nation's effort to lure more sophisticated investors to market where individuals account for about 80% of equity trading

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Williams Cos Inc (NYSE: WMB), where a total volume of 128,961 contracts has been traded thus far today, a c...

Bourses' attempts to boost derivatives offerings fall short as participants seem wary of products beyond benchmark indices

With the new GDP numbers, the Central Statistics Office has confirmed our gut feeling the economy is doing better than last year

On 2/11/15, Discover Financial Services's Fixed Rate Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series B (NYSE: DFS.PRB) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.4062, payable on 3/2/15. As a percentage of...

On 2/11/15, Capital One Financial Corp's Fixed Rate Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series B (NYSE: COF.PRP) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.375, payable on 3/2/15. As a percentage of C...

On 2/11/15, Commerce Bancshares, Inc.'s 6.00% Series B Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock (NASD: CBSHP) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.375, payable on 3/2/15. As a percentage of CBSHP's re...

On 2/11/15, BB&T Corp.'s Series D Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock (NYSE: BBT.PRD) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.3656, payable on 3/2/15. As a percentage of BBT.PRD's recent share price...

According to Baker Hughes, the rotary rig count, which is one of the most closely watched metrics of activity in the oil field services industry, was down by roughly 4% sequentially to 1,258 rigs in January for internati...

We expect the company to report a marginal improvement in revenues in Q4 as well. We also anticipate a modest growth in display ads revenues in Q4, despite the overhang of shuttered sites (announced recently), which will...

Despite the win, Gorilla Glass' reputation came into question. Sapphire had exposed a major weakness, which raised concern among smartphone manufacturers. Corning then came out with another version of its cover glass, Go...

The routing and switching transition seems to be going well, and the company expects these business divisions to contribute meaningfully to top line and bottom line growth in the next few quarters. Cisco expects its over...

Analysts expect the company's fourth quarter earnings per share to be down 9% from 2013 levels to $0.42. Coca-Cola's financials have partly been dragged down by refranchising of certain territories in North America and t...

Twitter earnings gave bulls some relief, though the bears won't be gone for long.

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed the latest batch of the 31 most recent 13F filings for the 12/31/2014 reporting period, and noticed that McKesson Corp. (NYSE: MCK) was held by 12 of these funds. When hedge fund man...

Sun TV posted 15% jump in net profit to `214.13 crore for Q3, compared with `185.79 crore a year ago

Lately, American Express investors have been disappointed, as the company's revenue growth has slowed in recent years. However, much of this can be attributed to overly high market expectations.