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Many states and cities are facing pushback from workers as they seek cutbacks on pension entitlements to existing employees. But Memphis is particularly notable because workers have moved beyond rhetoric and into action.

U.S. stocks closed sharply higher Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average soaring more than 200 points, as the U.S. dollar rally paused ahead of the Federal Reserve's two-day policy meeting. The Federal Open Market...

A weekend of rest did U.S. equity markets a lot of good.

In afternoon trading on Monday, Healthcare stocks are the best performing sector, up 2.0%. Within that group, Edwards Lifesciences Corp (NYSE: EW) and Amgen Inc (NASD: AMGN) are two of the day's stand-outs, showing a gai...

Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB) has declared, a quarterly cash dividend of $0.31 per common share of beneficial interest, to be paid on April 15, 2015 to shareholders of record as of March 31, 2015.

Valuations look reasonable. The total market value of all equities compared to replacement value, ex-financials, shows a slight premium of over 2%, not exactly frothy.

Although the retailer?s profits were down close to 94% as compared to the year ago period, air freight cost was responsible for most of the decline. Due to West Coast traffic congestion, Ann imported a fair portion of it...

We will be focusing on the operating expenses for the quarter, since there is a chance that they may have surged as a result of the heavy investments made in order to handle the holiday season package volumes. FedEx coul...

In trading on Monday, the Biotech ETF (BBH) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 2.3% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of United Therapeutics (UTHR), up about 6.5% and shar...

Oil prices tumbled to a six-year low Monday, driven by renewed fears of oversupply and a surging U.S. dollar. Crude prices were also weighed down amid U.S. negotiations toward a possible nuclear deal with Tehran, which w...

Most retirement account-holders have little idea whether the person who manages their nest egg is a "fiduciary" or not. But knowing the difference could save the median two-earner family up to $155,000 over a lifetime of...

As many as 20 Indian companies have managed to raise capital through the share sale route so far this year

When hedge fund manager "titans" think alike, investors are wise to pay attention. At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed 4,002 13F filings for the 12/31/2014 reporting period, and noticed that Allergan, Inc (NYSE: AGN) w...

Issue for sale of 17,604,092 shares received bids for 10,631,725 shares

Looking at the sectors faring worst as of midday Monday, shares of Materials companies are underperforming other sectors, showing a 0.2% loss. Within that group, DuPont (NYSE: DD) and Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) are two large...

Something was amiss in the trading room at HTG Capital Partners. Namely, the market for U.S. Treasury bond futures seemed jinxed. Moments after traders confirmed a purchase, the price would suddenly fall, as hundreds of ...

The PowerShares Global Gold and Precious Metals Portfolio ETF (PSAU) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Monday, with over 817,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 65,000.  Share...

When tax information is incomplete near the deadline, it?s wise to file an automatic six-month extension.

In its upcoming earnings release, we expect the company to report mid single-digit y-o-y growth in operating revenues on account of a steady increase in fixed broadband users and gain in high speed subscribers (3G and 4G...

Dow Jones up 0.90%, Standard & Poor's 500 adds 0.87%, Nasdaq gains 0.78%

In trading on Monday, rental, leasing, & royalty shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 3.4%.  Helping drag down the group were shares of Hugoton Royalty Trust (HGT), off about 8.9% and shares of Pacifi...

The entire process of bringing down battery costs presupposes the availability of the grade of lithium required for the making of those batteries. Tesla might run into snags on that front in two possible ways: 1) There m...