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Dow Jones rises 1.18%, S&P 500 gains 0.91%, Nasdaq adds 1.21%

The Procter & Gamble Company (PG) declared an increase in the quarterly dividend from $0.6436 to $0.6629 per share on its Common Stock and on the Series A and Series B ESOP Convertible Class A Preferred Stock of the Comp...

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At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed the latest batch of the 23 most recent 13F filings for the 03/31/2015 reporting period, and noticed that Coca-Cola Co (NYSE: KO) was held by 16 of these funds. When hedge fund manage...

Expectation of weak earnings, tax woes of foreign investors and uncertainty over land bill weigh on sentiment

The worst performing sector as of midday Monday is the Materials sector, higher by 0.3%. Within the sector, CF Industries Holdings Inc (NYSE: CF) and Eastman Chemical Co. (NYSE: EMN) are two large stocks that are lagging...

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Monday, shares of Utilities companies are outperforming other sectors, higher by 1.4%. Within that group, NRG Energy Inc (NYSE: NRG) and FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) are tw...

The iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF (ACWX) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Monday, with over 2.7 million shares traded versus three month average volume of about 473,000.  Shares of ACWX were up about...

In trading on Monday, the iShares U.S. Technology ETF (IYW) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 1.9% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Rovi (ROVI), up about 8.5% and sha...

In trading on Monday, trucking shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 2.5%.  Leading the group were shares of ArcBest (ARCB), up about 4.2% and shares of YRC Worldwide (YRCW) up about 3.8% on the day.

Riding on a strong increase in global net revenues, due to impressive growth in comparable store sales and customer traffic, Chipotle Mexican Grill is all geared up to report yet another robust sales result in its Q1 ear...

Harley grew wholesale motorcycle shipments by 3.9% to 270,726 units in 2014, and expects to ship 4-6% more motorcycles to dealers this year. The company expects to have shipped 79,000-84,000 motorcycles in Q1, compared w...

The focus in the first quarter will be on adoption rates for the new products, especially for SAP S/4HANA. Given its legacy roots, SAP is seen by some to be a laggard in cloud computing, which is quickly supplanting the ...

For the first quarter, we expect the company to report robust postpaid gross adds driven by growth in tablet connections. Verizon's postpaid gross adds in Q1 2014 and Q4 2014 were 539,000 and 1.98 million, respectively. ...

Total industrial profit rose 9% and earnings per share grew by an impressive 14% for the quarter on a year-over-year basis. Within the industrial division, 5 out of 7 segments reported growth in earnings. Oil and gas con...

Regulatory compliance is expensive, but the cost of compliance-related failure is much, much higher.  In 2012 and 2013, banks paid more than $3.7 billion in fines for attempts to fix the London Interbank Offered Rates (...

Indian reserves stood at $343 billion at the end of March 2015, a jump of almost $40 billion from a year ago

After Friday?s broad based selling, the Euro markets are higher in early trading as are the futures. Of course, it will be the close that is most important, and as I detailed in Friday?s Weak Ahead column, there is compe...

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

Consistently, one of the more popular stocks people enter into their stock options watchlist at Stock Options Channel is Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT). So this week we highlight one interesting put contract, and one inter...

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

Consistently, one of the more popular stocks people enter into their stock options watchlist at Stock Options Channel is General Electric Co (NYSE: GE). So this week we highlight one interesting put contract, and one int...