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Local lender KeyBank is succeeding by going back to its roots, lending to small and mid-size manufacturers.

Global oil companies are unwinding some big bets they made on China--and that is bad news for the Chinese companies, which need their know-how.

The Madison Square Garden Company, owner of the New York Knicks, Rangers and Madison Square Garden sports arena said on Friday it will split off its sports and entertainment business from its media operations, which incl...

Financial firms are creating a murky, ad hoc market where the red-hot stocks of closely held technology companies trade largely out of sight of regulators, other investors and the companies themselves.

When hedge fund manager "titans" think alike, investors are wise to pay attention. At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed 4,004 13F filings for the 12/31/2014 reporting period, and noticed that Micron Technology Inc. (NAS...

Looking at the sectors faring worst as of midday Friday, shares of Energy companies are underperforming other sectors, showing a 0.4% loss. Within that group, Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) and Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VL...

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Friday, shares of Healthcare companies are outperforming other sectors, higher by 0.9%. Within that group, Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASD: ALXN) and Endo International ...

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Priceline Group Inc. (NASD: PCLN), where a total volume of 26,062 contracts has been traded thus far today,...

SAT has directed NSE to consider the settlement proposed by Emkay along with Prakash K Shah Shares and Securities Ltd and release the withheld payment within two weeks

Alaska Air's plan to ramp up its Seattle capacity by 10% in 2015 will likely weigh on its load factor and passenger yield. Alaska's strategy is an attempt to defend its dominant market position in its largest hub, Seattl...

The company has been battling a subdued iron ore pricing environment over the past year or so. Benchmark 62% Fe iron ore fines prices stood at $63 per dry metric ton (dmt) at the end of February, around 47% lower on a ye...

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.

We believe the key contributing factor to Zynga?s gross margin decrease in the future will be its ongoing shift towards the mobile platform, as mobile revenue is recognized on gross basis, as compared to Facebook-related...

Most of the carrier?s 2G customers may be adopting China Telecom?s and China Mobile?s 4G networks in light of the their discount offerings and the latter?s massive network expansion (Unicom?s net user base declined by 2....

SanDisk?s stock plummeted by over 18% on Thursday, March 26 after the company announced that its Q1 revenues could be around $1.30 billion, lower than the previous guidance of about $1.40 billion. This would imply a 15% ...

UDR (UDR) declared a regular quarterly dividend on its common stock for the first quarter of 2015 in the amount of $0.2775 per share, payable in cash, on April 30, 2015 to UDR common stock shareholders of record as of Ap...

The iShares North American Tech ETF (IGM) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 59,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 28,000.  Shares of IGM were down about 0.3...

In trading on Friday, the First Trust NYSE Arca Biotechnology Index Fund ETF (FBT) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 2.9% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Biomarin Ph...

In trading on Friday, metals & mining shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 2.1%.  Helping drag down the group were shares of Peabody Energy Corporation (BTU), down about 8.4% and shares of Alpha Natur...

In trading on Friday, general contractors & builders shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 1.8%.  Leading the group were shares of LGI Homes (LGIH), up about 4.1% and shares of Ryland Group (RYL) up about...

Investors in Dish Network Corp (NASD: DISH) saw new options begin trading this week, for the May 15th expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the DISH options chain for the new...

Investors in Western Digital Corp. (NASD: WDC) saw new options become available this week, for the May 15th expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the WDC options chain for th...