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Kraft Foods reported a net loss in its fourth quarter on Thursday, widely missing estimates, driven by the rising cost of post-employment benefit plans.

Bargain hunters are wise to pay careful attention to insider buying, because although there are many various reasons for an insider to sell a stock, presumably the only reason they would use their hard-earned dollars to ...

Larry Robbins of top-performing hedge fund Glenview Capital Management is entertaining the idea that McDonald's can do more to deliver value to its shareholders under incoming CEO Stephen Easterbrook.

Finance Minister Joaquim Levy, whose appointment was greeted with enthusiasm by the financial markets and with some suspicion by certain sectors within the Brazilian government, has embarked upon comprehensive change in ...

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Thursday, shares of Materials companies are outperforming other sectors, higher by 1.9%. Within that group, International Flavors & Fragrances (NYSE: IFF) and Allegheny Tec...

The worst performing sector as of midday Thursday is the Utilities sector, showing a 0.4% loss. Within the sector, AGL Resources (NYSE: GAS) and Northeast Utilities (NYSE: NU) are two large stocks that are lagging, showi...

Bargain hunters are wise to pay careful attention to insider buying, because although there are many various reasons for an insider to sell a stock, presumably the only reason they would use their hard-earned dollars to ...

Panmure Gordon said shares in the online white goods retailer were worth about half their current value

By Ian Morris

Greek has reached a stalemate in negotiations to restructure its debt, but its future in the euro may be more dependent on economic reform.

India Cements reports a Rs11.68 crore loss, but offers shareholders opportunity to own shares in its wholly owned subsidiary, Chennai Super Kings Ltd

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Tripadvisor Inc (NASD: TRIP), where a total volume of 40,606 contracts has been traded thus far today, a co...

The outperformance was driven by an exceptionally strong holiday season, as people increasingly took to the web for shopping, streaming videos, accessing social media, playing games and downloading software on newly purc...

The net income loss stood at ~$107 million, or a loss of 86 cents a share. The automaker delivered a record 9,834 vehicles this quarter, but fell short of the guided 11,000 deliveries for the quarter. The company blamed ...

2014 was a lukewarm period for investment banks around the globe in terms of trading revenues ? especially since all major players in the debt trading industry fared poorly over the last quarter from an unexpected increa...

Both the net operating revenues and income were down year-over-year in the quarter and for the full-year, but if we take out the impact of currency and one-time structural changes, organic revenues grew 3% and organic op...

The networking giant?s top line increase was driven by double-digit growth in its key businesses- Switching, Collaboration, Data Center and Wireless. Other important businesses such as Routing and Security also registere...

The record profit booking from LIC's equity portfolio means a high valuation surplus for the insurer which will benefit policyholders and the government

Global investors will continue to participate in India's disinvestment process as there are not many opportunities, says DHFL chairman

MSCI's all-country world index rises 0.99%, while the FTSEuroFirst index of 300 leading shares adds 0.75%

The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the 30 stocks making up the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) is the #27 analyst pick.  Within the broader S&P 500,...