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European stocks fell after the deadlock in negotiations over unlocking further financial aid for Greece kept markets on edge.

U.S. stocks closed lower Monday, despite the Standard & Poor's 500 hitting an intraday record as biotechnology stocks weighed on the Nasdaq composite and Standard & Poor's 500, driven by declines from drug developer Cell...

Amazon, Google and Microsoft are spending billions to stay competitive in the cloud, with shareholders cheering them along. That is good for their suppliers.

Concerns over MAT, rebalancing of foreign portfolios towards other markets weighing on currency market

As Apple Inc. releases quarterly results after the closing bell on Monday, the earnings season gets into full swing this week. Social media company Twitter Inc. and drugmaker Pfizer Inc. report results Tuesday, followed ...

Ahead of the Tape: Merck and Pfizer are cash machines in a frothy pharmaceutical sector.

In afternoon trading on Monday, Healthcare stocks are the worst performing sector, showing a 1.6% loss. Within that group, Mylan NV (NASD: MYL) and Edwards Lifesciences Corp (NYSE: EW) are two large stocks that are laggi...

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Monday, shares of Materials companies are outperforming other sectors, higher by 0.5%. Within that group, Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold (NYSE: FCX) and DuPont (NYSE: DD) a...

Investors seem to be realizing that it will take time for a turnaround in corporate earnings or in investment demand, despite the government's best intentions

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Apple Inc (NASD: AAPL), where a total volume of 966,160 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contrac...

Satellite radio provider Sirius XM is scheduled to release its Q1 2015 earnings on April 28th. Since the company didn't perform too well in the first quarter of 2014, due to only moderate growth in new car sales, we expe...

More than eighteen months after announcing a deal to acquire its Japanese rival Tokyo Electron, U.S. based semiconductor equipment manufacturer, Applied Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT) announced yesterday that the deal will not...

Samsung Electronics is slated to publish its Q1 2015 results on April 29, reporting on a quarter that likely saw the company rely on its semiconductor business to drive earnings, with its high-profile smartphone unit foc...

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

UFO Moviez plans to raise `600 crore through an initial public offering

Proxy advisory firm ISS said on Monday shareholders should vote for billionaire Trian management head Nelson Peltz and another director, former GE Asset Management CEO John H. Myers, and withhold their votes for DuPont's...

Consistently, one of the more popular stocks people enter into their stock options watchlist at Stock Options Channel is International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM). So this week we highlight one interesting put co...

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

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...

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

Harvey R. Miller, widely credited for developing the modern practice of bankruptcy law while giving legal counsel to Texaco, Lehman Brothers, General Motors and others, died Monday. He was 82.

Consistently, one of the more popular stocks people enter into their stock options watchlist at Stock Options Channel is JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE: JPM). So this week we highlight one interesting put contract, and one in...