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The AT&T-DirecTV merger is approved! Summary of known conditions and new ones based on FCC's press release.

You hear a lot of obscure terms in the investing business, too many of them math-related for sure. But one key idea that far too many gloss over is "portfolio." It sounds pretty complicated, but it's not that hard to gr...

Hillary Clinton has proposed changes to capital-gains tax rates and holding periods in hopes of encouraging corporate managers to focus on long-term growth. What exactly would the changes mean for individual investors?

More changes are coming at the top of Bank of America. The bank is looking for a replacement for Gary Lynch, the general counsel who guided it through a storm of legal crises.

The cloud business has puffed up Amazon's bottom line, but the company's spending habits make that difficult to count on.

The past two weeks have been pretty significant in terms of the general direction of oil futures benchmarks. As the market grappled with the Iranian nuclear settlement, Greece’s debt woes, seemingly lower Chinese deman...

RIL's shareholders have been a happier lot recently with the 24% jump in its share price so far this fiscal year

The twenty-ninth full trading week of 2015 comes to a close with the Dow Jones, S&P 500 and the NASDAQ composite lower on the day, in early afternoon trading on Friday.

In afternoon trading on Friday, Materials stocks are the worst performing sector, showing a 2.4% loss. Within the sector, Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold (NYSE: FCX) and LyondellBasell Industries NV (NYSE: LYB) are two of...

Anthem successfully held the line in merger talks with Cigna. But antitrust issues should keep investors from celebrating for now.

Wynn Resorts continues to benefit from higher demand at its Macau hotel properties, and this has led to better pricing for the rooms over the past few years. Casino operators are motivated to sustain occupancy in order t...

We expect the company to report that growth was driven by a sharp increase in mobile revenues during the quarter. This was likely fueled by user growth on mobile search, as well as a rise in mobile monetization (which co...

Norfolk Southern is set to announce its second quarter 2015 results on Monday, July 27. The railroad operator is likely to report a decline in revenues and earnings as weak coal carloads impact the top line. According to...

We expect to see growth in core sales driven by its Display Technologies, Optical Communications and Specialty Materials segments. However, the reported sales will likely be tempered due to foreign currency headwinds. Ap...

We expect lower crude oil prices to weigh significantly on the company's upstream earnings growth. The average Brent crude oil spot price declined by almost 44% year-on-year during the second quarter. This is expected to...

Simon declared a quarterly common stock dividend of $1.55 per share. This is a 19.2% increase year-over-year and an increase of $0.05 or 3.3% from the previous quarter. The dividend will be payable on August 31, 2015 to ...

Bargain hunters are wise to pay careful attention to insider buying, because although there are many various reasons for an insider to sell a stock, presumably the only reason they would use their hard-earned dollars to ...

The Guggenheim S&P 500 Equal Weight Technology ETF (RYT) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 527,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 71,000. Shares of RYT were ...

In trading on Friday, the First Trust Dow Jones Internet Index Fund ETF (FDN) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 1.1% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Netgear (NTGR), up...

Our indices don't reflect it but within the indices there is some intense selling going on.  You have Skyworks Solutions reversing almost from the get-go and is now down 4% from up 4% earlier, after reporting numbers la...

In trading on Friday, auto dealerships shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 2.9%. Helping drag down the group were shares of TrueCar (TRUE), down about 36.1% and shares of Asbury Automotive Group (ABG)...

In trading on Friday, life & health insurance shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 2%. Leading the group were shares of Stancorp Financial Group (SFG), up about 48.1% and shares of Symetra Financial (SYA)...