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Sluggish discretionary demand and an early festival season dragged down revenue growth for paint makers

In trading on Tuesday, precious metals shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 2.2%.  Helping drag down the group were shares of Gold Fields (GFI), off about 7% and shares of Harmony Gold Mining Company ...

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European Central Bank Decision on Emergency Assistance Looms

U.S. financial regulators will soon announce rules that could transform the $700 trillion swaps market. The change would likely force major Wall Street banks, currently dominant in the swaps trade, to cede business to in...

Europe's Greek drama continues to play out as Greece and eurozone finance ministers attempt to reach agreement over the country's debt program. The negotiations ended in a standoff Monday, and the lack of a consensus mea...

In afternoon trading on Tuesday, Utilities stocks are the worst performing sector, showing a 0.4% loss. Within the sector, NRG Energy (NYSE: NRG) and AES (NYSE: AES) are two large stocks that are lagging, showing a loss ...

In afternoon trading on Tuesday, Energy stocks are the best performing sector, higher by 0.8%. Within the sector, Denbury Resources (NYSE: DNR) and Noble Corp (NYSE: NE) are two large stocks leading the way, showing a ga...

A Mint analysis of eight such firms saw their aggregate net profit jump 147% in the December quarter from a year ago to Rs473.98 crore

RBI is still hesitant to declare victory in the war on inflation since it has shifted its benchmark to CPI

In addition to collaborating on future products and technologies, the agreement enables Seagate to secure a strategic supply of NAND flash-based memory from Micron. Seagate has made a number of acquisition in the past, t...

During the quarter, the company recorded a loss on extinguishment of debt of $824 million on an after-tax basis. Reductions in workers' compensation discount as well as adverse prior year reserve development led the comp...

Priceline has guided to a slow to moderate pace of growth in Q4 2014, primarily because of the scenarios affecting its operation in recent times. The threat of Ebola and certain Asian disasters like the fire in Vietnam a...

Maritime Association, which represents shipping companies, recently shut down operations at 29 U.S. West Coast ports from Thursday through Monday, excluding Friday. Such shutdowns have begun to impact Union Pacific's int...

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.

Nordstrom (JWN) approved a quarterly dividend of 37 cents per share, an increase of 12% over the previous quarter's dividend, payable on March 13, 2015 to shareholders of record at the close of business on February 27, 2...

February’s first two weeks sure have rewarded patient investors. But an impasse in Greek debt talks may grate on some nerves and once again grab headlines away from domestic issues and earnings results. With Greece in ...

Following the promise of monetary stimulus from the ECB last month, fund managers are overwhelmingly more bullish on Europe.

Global markets waver but Greek stocks cut their losses, oil falls below $61 barrel as other commodities weigh

The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the 30 stocks making up the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Visa (V) is the #2 analyst pick.  Visa also comes in above the median of an...

The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the components of the S&P 500 index, Mondelez International (MDLZ) is now the #66 analyst pick, moving up by 1 spot.         Th...

Last week's upside breakout in the PowerShares QQQ Trust (QQQ) was impressive but the iShares Russell 2000 (IWM) just closed at marginal new highs. The Spyder Trust (SPY) also made a new marginal high but I doubt the bre...