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The stock has rallied from $70 in January to its current market price of over $77. This translates into a return of over 10% in the last month alone. While we have recently revised our price target from $62 to $70, we be...

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, in trading on Thursday, shares of Mosaic Co (NYSE: MOS) were yielding above the 2% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $1.00), with the stoc...

The FAO's food price index for February dipped by 14% over a year ago and declined by 1% sequentially

Among the sectoral indices, the BSE healthcare index was the top sectoral gainer, up 1%

The partially convertible rupee opens at 62.33 per dollar compared with its previous close of 62.27

Savvy participants can tilt the process in their favor when mediation is used in divorce, disputes with brokers and other conflicts.

Indonesia's president wants to pour billions of dollars into state-owned firms to encourage the private sector to invest in infrastructure. Investors have their doubts.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says he will only hire someone to work directly for him if he would also be willing to work for that person

Stock markets are failing to price in correctly the consequences of the likely chaos come May

In trading on Thursday, shares of Finning International Inc (Toronto: FTT) were yielding above the 3% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $0.71), with the stock changing hands as low as $23.64 on the day....

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, in trading on Thursday, shares of CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) were yielding above the 6% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $2.16), with ...

The directors of a company tend to have a unique inside view into the business, so when directors make major buys, investors are wise to take notice. Presumably the only reason a director of a company would choose to tak...

When hedge fund manager "titans" think alike, investors are wise to pay attention. At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed 3,992 13F filings for the 12/31/2014 reporting period, and noticed that Baidu, Inc. (NASD: BIDU) wa...

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed 3,992 13F filings for the 12/31/2014 reporting period, and looked at the various S&P 500 components held by each of these reporting hedge funds and other 13F filers. For each compone...

A study of analyst recommendations at the major brokerages shows that Legg Mason, Inc. (NYSE: LM) is the #54 broker analyst pick among those stocks screened by The Online Investor for strong stock buyback activity. To ma...

Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Netflix Inc. (NASD: NFLX), where a total of 33,620 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 3.4 mill...

General Dynamics (GD) declared a regular quarterly dividend of 69 cents per share on the company's common stock, payable May 8, 2015, to shareholders of record on April 10. The dividend represents an 11.3 percent increas...

The signing of the additional streaming agreement with Silver Wheaton is part of Vale's ongoing response to an environment of low commodity prices, particularly those of iron ore. The upfront cash payment will lessen the...

Following these results, Abercrombie's stock fell a sharp 15%, raising questions about the effectiveness of its revival strategies. The company is phasing out its logo business, testing new storefronts and pricing for Ho...

While the deal will make Springleaf the single biggest sub-prime lender in the country, Citigroup stands to gain a lot from the disposal of what is its most profitable business in terms of return on assets (RoA). The cas...

The First Trust RBA American Industrial Renaissance ETF (AIRR) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Thursday, with over 322,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 57,000.  Shares of...

In trading on Thursday, the Biotech ETF (BBH) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 2% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Puma Biotechnology (PBYI), up about 12.9% and shar...