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While equities from China to Brazil have tumbled since the yuan devaluation, Poland, Morocco and India have been the best performing developing markets

The world's biggest producers of iron ore have a problem, and it ilies in the steel that has already gone into China's cars, bridges and skyscrapers.

The fear that China's appetite for commodities is falling is rattling markets, but the country's sheer scale means it will continue to shape the commodities trade.

The city of Providence, R.I., and other investors had sued Barclays over dark pool trading described in the best-selling book.

I like the drug Afrezza, I am not a MannKind bull and I don't much like how the company is being run. Maybe that will change when/if Afrezza sales pick up, but predicting that is beyond my area of expertise.

The world's largest investment manager, BlackRock, announced Wednesday that it is acquiring FutureAdvisor, a quiet but innovative player in the burgeoning robo-advice space. The deal is a reminder the BlackRock is comm...

Traders thrive on market volatility, profiting from rapid changes in prices up or down as they take long and short positions. It’s different for investors: When market indexes drop into correction or bear market mode, ...

Buying FXI on a China rally overnight

Tributes have continued to flow for British IndyCar driver Justin Wilson, who died of his injuries Monday.

For more than a year, signs of an impending equity crisis were there for all to see, say financial experts

In afternoon trading on Wednesday, Technology & Communications stocks are the best performing sector, higher by 2.3%. Within that group, NVIDIA Corp (NASD: NVDA) and Avago Technologies Ltd (NASD: AVGO) are two of the day...

The worst performing sector as of midday Wednesday is the Utilities sector, higher by 0.4%. Within the sector, NRG Energy Inc (NYSE: NRG) and Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE) are two of the day's laggards, showing a loss of 1.1...

Justin Brosseau isn't panicking about the recent stock market roller coaster. He sees it as an investment opportunity -- for himself and for his generation. "When I saw that the market was basically crashing, I knew it w...

When the tide is high, it takes out everything in sight, even the entities that once seemed formidable. Volkswagen AG has for a few years now depended on its sales in China to fuel overall growth. The group is the highes...

To everybody's surprise, this quarter's performance was in sharp contrast with that of the previous quarter, when sales stayed flat year-over-year and the bottom line fell due to one-time charges. As the company exceeded...

It's a university far off the radar of the Princeton Review annual college rankings -- yet it boasts more than 25,000 graduates, all lured by the promise of careers in the rapidly-growing cannabis industry. Through sheer...

BlackRock appears keen to grab a share of the rapidly growing rental-home financing industry, and will reportedly venture into the industry through several lending partners over the coming months. This move hardly comes ...

Global software behemoth Oracle Corp. is continuing its trigger-happy acquisition strategy with the purchase of Maxymiser, a marketing cloud company, for an undisclosed sum. Maxymiser is a leading Cloud software that ena...

It was a rare case of the cure being worse than the disease. At least some of Monday morning's extreme market volatility can be traced to recently implemented federal regluations. Investors woke up Monday to see wild pri...

Schlumberger's $12.7 billion deal to buy joint-venture partner Cameron is the latest example of oil-field services companies seeking safety in numbers.

There are still many reasons for investors to remain optimistic and it is important to remember that even during the financial crisis, those who stubbornly held on came away unscathed.

The incumbent chairman U.K. Sinha will finish his five-year term in February 2016