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Oil prices jumped after a surprisingly large drop in U.S. stockpiles, signaling an easing in oversupply. The U.S. Energy Information Administration showed crude stocks fell by 2.1 million barrels last week.

By Hideyuki Sano TOKYO

A marquee offering from the world's biggest hedge-fund manager, Bridgewater Associates, had its worst month in two years in August, prompting the firm to defend its approach as a solid strategy in good markets and bad.

An increase in interest rates would force many asset managers to make a hard decision: keep the extra money or pass it along to returns-starved clients

Life insurer MetLife Inc. said it will take a $792 million charge against third-quarter earnings to reflect that it may owe more federal taxes for past years.

It's not often that you get an opportunity to buy Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) stock, the world's most widely held stock, at a discount. But given the broad market declines of the past month, Apple has given the world a nice dip ...

Picking up from last week’s post, succeeding generations of money managers missed McChesney Martin's and later Paul Volcker's draconian FRB tightening exercises when inflation ran between 7% and 8% and 5-year agency no...

Silver Wheaton has announced the buyback of up to 20.2 million shares of the company's stock, amid weakness in the company's stock price as a result of weak precious metal prices and tax related uncertainty. The company ...

Chinese appetite for coffee and other small luxuries is rising, driven by changing tastes and an expanding middle class.

Go with the Fed's flow Thursday as Janet Yellen and her company do or don't surprise markets.

It wouldn't be the first time a trio of Brazilian billionaires were involved in orchestrating a combination of breweries.

Part of the fall in exports is in line with the slump in commodity prices; but as data from CPB World Trade Monitor show, even volume growth is hard to find

The worst performing sector as of midday Wednesday is the Healthcare sector, showing a 0.1% loss. Within that group, Patterson Companies Inc (NASD: PDCO) and DENTSPLY International, Inc. (NASD: XRAY) are two of the day's...

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen faces a daunting task this week as policy makers debate whether to raise interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade. The Fed's decision hinges on whether central bankers ...

International packaging company Mondi became the biggest FTSE 100 faller after Goldman Sachs downgraded the stock.

Notwithstanding the macro risks present in the Chinese economy, our price estimate for SINA stands at $46.30. This represents more than 20% premium to the current market price. We believe there are several positives in t...

Alumina is primarily used as a raw material in the production of aluminum. Given the prevailing weakness in aluminum prices, Alcoa has curtailed a significant proportion of its high-cost aluminum smelting operations. Wit...

Though coal shipments remain an important source of freight revenues for Union Pacific, the company's revenues from coal shipments have declined sharply, falling roughly 18% year-over-year in the first half of 2015. The ...

At the Citi 2015 Global Technology Conference last week, leading memory products manufacturer Micron Technology admitted to seeing signs of stability in the PC market, with reductions in inventory throughout the network ...

Inflation is already low, but falling gasoline costs could push overall prices negative.

Electronic Arts has started its campaign for the 2015 holiday season with the release of one of its core franchises: Madden NFL 16. On August 25, EA launched this year's edition of North America's most popular sports fra...

Microsoft declared a quarterly dividend of $0.36 per share, reflecting a five cent increase, or 16.1 percent, over the previous quarter's dividend. The dividend is payable December 10, 2015 to shareholders of record on N...