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The American International Group -- an insurance agency better known as AIG -- posted a set of disappointing fourth quarter earnings results Thursday afternoon, revealing that its profit fell 67% and failed to meet Wall ...

Harvey Goldschmid, a former SEC official and securities-law expert who helped guide the response to the accounting scandals of the early 2000s, died. He was 74.

Fiscal second-quarter sales rose 7% to $11.9 billion, and profit excluding some items was 53 cents a share

Ceasefire takes sting out of investors fear on global economy; Greece's move on troika raises hopes of progress on debt talks

Money manager Fidelity Investments delivered its first annual report under new chief executive Abigail Johnson, showing record revenue and operating income even as its actively managed mutual funds suffered large investo...

Most of the major averages made new highs for the year in Tuesday's session, with the Dow Industrials, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite posting gains of over 1%. The Dow Utilities did even better as it was up 2.12% as these...

A surge in aluminum exports from China is altering market dynamics for one of the world's most heavily traded commodities. Because of quirks in China's tax system, the trend involves reshaping the metal itself.

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed the latest batch of the 88 most recent 13F filings for the 12/31/2014 reporting period, and noticed that Lowe's Companies Inc (NYSE: LOW) was held by 21 of these funds. When hedge fu...

Anyone would have expected Apple’s $850 million deal with First Solar (FSLR) to have created a lot of heat in stocks in solar sector, but the reality that prices had been on the move already. Several solar stocks such...

Valentine's Day shoppers might find a box of chocolate more expensive this year, and they can thank China, Ebola and a dusty wind in west Africa. On Thursday, the average price for a metric ton of cocoa was $2993.47, dow...

The International Monetary Fund offered its support for Egypt on Wednesday, lauding its latest policies to spur economic inclusive growth, create jobs and restore stability. This is an important step forward for the coun...

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Friday, shares of Energy companies are outperforming other sectors, higher by 1.6%. Within that group, Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE: PXD) and Denbury Resources (NYSE: DN...

In afternoon trading on Friday, Utilities stocks are the worst performing sector, showing a 1.9% loss. Within that group, Exelon (NYSE: EXC) and Northeast Utilities (NYSE: NU) are two of the day's laggards, showing a los...

Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Priceline Group Inc. (NASD: PCLN), where a total of 37,392 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately ...

Propelled by growing click based revenues and the full quarter contribution of its acquisitions (LaFourchette and Viator), the world's largest travel review company posted revenues of $288 million in Q4 2014, up by 35% y...

When Medtronic comes out with its Q3 FY 2015 earnings, we expect revenue growth to meet the company?s guidance of 4-5% on a constant currency basis. Most of the company?s major businesses are likely to sustain their grow...

The company?s core earnings also dropped by nearly 6% y-o-y to C$713 million in the fourth quarter. Although the company benefited from an increase in business volume, unfavorable policyholder experience in North America...

The semiconductor industry was one of the strongest performing sectors in 2014, driven by the continued strength in personal, network and service provider communications, and increasing electronics adoption around the wo...

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.

Verizon has retained its ranking as the best wireless network in the U.S. in the second half of 2014, with AT&T again taking second place, according to the latest mobile network performance report by RootMetrics. Accordi...

We do expect oil prices to recover from current levels in the second half of this year, and average around $70 per barrel for the full year. However, significant revenue pressures and margin erosion in the first half is ...

The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the components of the S&P 500 index, Borg Warner (BWA) is now the #17 analyst pick, moving up by 3 spots.         This rank is ...