Market News

A weak September employment report doesn't mean the job market is in trouble, but investors aren't taking any chances.

A weak employment report sent investors piling into U.S. government bonds Friday, with the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note tumbling below 2% for the first time in more than a month.

The U.K. consumer financial watchdog is right to call time on one of the country's biggest bank scandals, missold payment protection insurance.

Friday's soft jobs numbers are unlikely to produce panic at the Federal Reserve about the health of the jobs market, but the report does reduce the likelihood the central bank will raise interest rates at its policy meet...

Discount brokerage Scottrade Inc. disclosed a data breach Friday that appeared to target the names and street addresses of around 4.6 million clients.

Investors lured by the promise of yields should tread carefully. It turns out some companies are reaching into investors' pockets to make fat dividend payments.

Crude prices jumped after the number of working U.S. oil rigs fell to a five-year low.

The Internal Revenue Service has kicked off a new program under which it shares large amounts of individuals' financial-account information with certain foreign countries, the agency said Friday.

Memory-chip maker Micron still has some tough periods ahead, but the stock looks ready to take a turn for the better.

The worst performing sector as of midday Friday is the Financial sector, showing a 0.9% loss. Within that group, The Charles Schwab Corporation (NYSE: SCHW) and CME Group (NASD: CME) are two of the day's laggards, showin...

Dish's decision to surrender some spectrum licenses could give it more financial flexibility.

Leading memory chip manufacturer, Micron Technology lost almost 35% of its market value since it reported its Q3 2015 earnings on June 25th. The stock rose marginally in after hours trading yesterday as Micron?s Q4 2015 ...

Yelp's stock has fallen out of favor with the investors and the price has declined by over 50% in the past six months. As a result, the stock has also under-performed the broader markets. The company operates in geograph...

Ever since announcing the $70 billion deal to acquire BG Group Plc. back in April, Royal Dutch Shell Plc. has been busy these last few months obtaining the required merger related approvals from various regulatory author...

Thor Industries (THO) approved, at their October 1, 2015 meeting, an increase in the amount of Thor's regular quarterly dividend to $0.30 per share from $0.27 per share, an increase of 11%. The regular dividend is payabl...

Wynn Resorts has seen a steep fall in its stock price in the recent past amid renewed concerns over Macau junket operators. While the stock plunged over 30% in September, it is down over 70% in last 12 months due to a sl...

Micron bodes well for Sandisk

Even if events at Glencore take a turn for the worse, comparisons to the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, which set off the worst global financial panic since the Great Depression, are misguided.

Markets are getting restless. Valuations are stretched, the global economy is shaky, and after six years of a bull market investors are taking every excuse to sell. Now, more than ever, it’s important to own quality bu...

Gold tends not to leave India once it enters. As the world’s largest importer, the country consumes massive quantities of the yellow metal—it’s on track to take in 900 tonnes of the stuff this year—where it remai...

Investors suffered a mild bout of indigestion following the release of disappointing US jobs data, with the FTSE dipping 0.3pc before closing up 0.95pc.

The Guggenheim S&P Global Water Index ETF (CGW) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 190,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 42,000. Shares of CGW were up about ...