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Yum! Brands, the parent company of Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut, is still being scorned in China.

The quantum of losses arising from selling kerosene below cost that upstream companies will bear is still unclear

Biotech stocks are still in favor for all the right reasons.

Burrito behemoth Chipotle has built its success on fresh ingredients and a reputation for being a healthier alternative to other fast (or fast-casual) food. But as health-conscious consumers have learned that Chipotle is...

U.S. stocks closed mostly lower Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly dropping more than 100 points in afternoon trading, as shares of DuPont Co. (NYSE:DD) fell nearly 3 percent after the chemical compan...

Below is the April 20th Thoughts from the Frontline, republished in full.

2014 was an off year for many Forbes billionaires’ stocks.  As a group, our Index of 575 publicly traded Forbes Billionaires--those on the list who created or inherited a preponderance of their wealth from a publicly ...

DuPont declared a second quarter common stock dividend of 49 cents per share payable June 12, 2015, to stockholders of record May 15, 2015. This represents a 4 percent increase over the 47 cents paid last quarter. This i...

In afternoon trading on Tuesday, Healthcare stocks are the best performing sector, higher by 0.6%. Within the sector, Mylan NV (NASD: MYL) and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASD: VRTX) are two large stocks leading the wa...

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed the latest batch of the 22 most recent 13F filings for the 03/31/2015 reporting period, and noticed that JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE: JPM) was held by 12 of these funds. When hedge fun...

The U.S. Justice Department has unsealed charges against a futures trader for stock market manipulations that allegedly caused the 2010 "Flash Crash," a historic market swing that brought national attention to high-frequ...

Stocks on European and world markets moved higher, boosted by strong corporate earnings

We expect its payments division PayPal to carry earnings during the quarter as the marketplaces segment is likely to show sub-par growth. We believe the latter will continue to be impacted by headwinds such as last year'...

In Q1 2015, we expect the company to post higher earnings as its commercial airplane deliveries continued to grow. Boeing delivered 184 commercial airplanes in Q1 2015, an impressive 14% rise in deliveries on a year-over...

Analysts estimate Coca-Cola's top line to remain flat compared to $10.58 billion in Q1 last year, and a slight decline in earnings per share. Two main reasons why the operational results might reflect weakness this quart...

The Golden Arches witnessed one of the tough periods in fiscal 2014 with net revenues declining roughly 2% year-over-year (y-o-y). The company struggled in all its geographical segments, facing financial and operational ...

Reiterating its earlier guidance of improving postpaid subscriber adds and expanding margins in the full year, the company had stated that it expected net postpaid subscriber adds to be in the 400,000 range in the first ...

President Obama made history earlier this year by becoming the first U.S. president to visit India twice while still in office. The trip, which came on the heels of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the U...

The Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap ETF (VSS) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Tuesday, with over 508,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 146,000. Shares of VSS were u...

In trading on Tuesday, the SPDR S&P China ETF (GXC) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 2.4% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of CNinsure (CISG), up about 9.6% and shares of...

In trading on Tuesday, railroads shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 2.2%. Helping drag down the group were shares of Canadian National Railway Company (CNI), down about 3.9% and shares of Kansas City...

In trading on Tuesday, general contractors & builders shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 1.9%. Leading the group were shares of Taylor Morrison Home (TMHC), up about 4.3% and shares of NVR (NVR) up abou...