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Consistently, one of the more popular stocks people enter into their stock options watchlist at Stock Options Channel is Intel Corp (NASD: INTC). So this week we highlight one interesting put contract, and one interestin...

Force India driver Nico Hulkenberg guides us around a lap of the iconic Spa-Francorchamps circuit.

The Obama administration is proposing a formal partnership between Beijing's new development bank and Washington-backed development institutions, such as the World Bank.

Shares in struggling Taiwan smartphone maker HTC gained 2.8% in early trade in Taipei today on hopes that last week’s move by its influential co-founder and chairman Cher Wang to become CEO will bring back some of its ...

The Outlook: Prospects for an uptick in business investment this year are facing a major drag: The collapse in oil prices is spurring significant cutbacks for the energy-production industry.

Abreast of the Market: The soaring dollar is crunching earnings at U.S. multinationals, prompting analysts to make their deepest cuts to earnings forecasts since the financial crisis and boosting the appeal of smaller, d...

Shares of Wal-Mart (WMT) have slid since midway through January and appear to have reached a point of attractive pricing. Despite being a Dow component, the price pattern of WMT has been relatively uncorrelated with the ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 are higher in afternoon trading on Monday, while the NASDAQ Composite is slightly lower. Some of the most actively traded stocks include Apple (AAPL) trading up 1%, Bank of Am...

The worst performing sector as of midday Monday is the Industrial sector, not showing much of a gain. Within that group, Kansas City Southern (NYSE: KSU) and CSX Corp. (NYSE: CSX) are two of the day's laggards, showing a...

From 2005 till date, of the 1,401 firms that private equity investors have exited, only 97 exits have come through the primary market

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 American Airlines Group Inc...

Putting together a photo collage for your social networks is easier than ever thanks to Layouts, a new app released by Instagram. The app makes it easy for mobile users to stitch together multiple pictures and create mon...

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.

While the results could benefit from lower manufacturing costs and higher module shipments, we expect the company to remain loss making owing to sequentially lower average selling prices and higher interest costs. During...

The iShares Global Financials ETF (IXG) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Monday, with over 84,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 34,000.  Shares of IXG were up about 0.2% on...

In trading on Monday, the Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 1.9% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of DRDGOLD Limited (DRD), up about 11.4% ...

The past week was eventful for casino operators, especially MGM Resorts, as an investment management group stated that MGM's stock price could double if it were to spin off its real estate assets into a real estate inves...

In trading on Monday, railroads shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 3%.  Helping drag down the group were shares of Kansas City Southern Industries (KSU), off about 8% and shares of CSX Corporation (...

The company is fairly confident of the new video game hardware sales, owing to the strong demand of the eight generation consoles, Microsoft's Xbox One, and Sony's PlayStation 4, in 2014. On the other hand, the whole ind...

In trading on Monday, cigarettes & tobacco shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 2.9%.  Leading the group were shares of 22nd Century Group (XXII), up about 12.2% and shares of Alliance One International ...

The stock has been on a bull run in the past few months, reaching new highs on the strength in the U.S. job environment. For the third quarter, we expect the robust U.S. job market conditions to translate into higher che...

This year, Walmex is planning to invest a smaller amount as compared to last year for store and web expansion. The company is looking to increase its overall floor area by just 1.7 million square feet this year, while it...