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Stocks are hitting all-time highs, so today let's talk about how to buy breakouts in an extended market.

Streaming media services offered by Amazon and Netflix are definitely gathering viewers away from the more established media delivery company Comcast, but for now investors appear to prefer the more tried-and-true cha...

What beat me was not having brains enough to stick to my own game – that is to play the market only when I was satisfied that precedents favored my play.” - Jesse Livermore, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

In Part I, we examined the way asset bubbles form and looked at the tech bubble of 2000 and the housing bubble of 2007-08. In this article, we'll conclude by looking at why a bubble may be forming today in U.S. stocks. I...

In March 2000 when the Nasdaq traded at its all-time highs, the index traded at well over 100 times earnings, and the 10-year yield was 6.66%. As an investor, you could exit a market with record high valuations and get a...

Ministers' comments hint of backsliding over privatisation and impending loan repayments

By Edith Fishta

By Mark Druskoff and Hana Askren

Fran Schuber was 83 years old when insurance agent Glenn Neasham knocked on her door. Schuber wanted to diversify her retirement savings portfolio, and Neasham had just the investment for her: an indexed annuity. The ups...

Lawmakers accuse US central bank of having a liberal bias even as Fed tries to maintain its independence

In her second day in a row of testimony on Capitol Hill Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen participated in a hearing titled: "Monetary Policy and the State of the Economy."

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 ...

Although it has not reported significant growth in its revenue metrics over the past several quarters, its growth has been positive, unlike several of its counterparts. While the company's affordable brand Old Navy has c...

America's largest home improvement retailer, Home Depot, reported solid Q4 and fiscal 2014 results on February 25, backed by an improving U.S. economy and housing market. Sales for the retailer grew 8.3% on a year-on-yea...

The recent crash in oil prices has made BP’s road to recovery from a massive setback it faced as a result of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon incident even more challenging. Just when the company’s underlying business seem...

The company's annual profit has also increased from $3.3 billion to $5.4 billion over this period. Higher production rates driven by rising airplane orders from airlines have been the primary driver of this growth in Boe...

The project is reported to be in its infancy and there remains a possibility that an Apple-branded car may never see the light of the day. Many technology companies, including Apple, are known to investigate the possibil...

Shares of hardwood flooring company Lumber Liquidators are getting whacked in Wednesday trading, with the stock currently down nearly 20%. The catalyst for this market punishing? There are, in fact, two: the company rele...

U.S. stocks hovered near record highs Wednesday morning, following the previous session's record-breaking rally, as economists continue to listen to U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's second day of testimony befor...

Danaher Corporation (DHR) has approved a regular quarterly dividend of $0.135 per share, a 35 percent increase over the quarterly dividend of $0.10 per share paid in 2014. The dividend is payable on April 24, 2015 to hol...

Fruits and vegetables imported into Russia dropped by 6 percent, or 670,000 tons, from 2013 to 2014 amid a ban on fruits and vegetables from Europe and food products from the United States. The country benefitting most f...

There was a mismatch between 13th Finance Commission's projections with actuals