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U.S. stocks traded near the flat line Friday, heading toward the end of a month that has seen large gains for equity markets. The Dow industrials are on track for their largest monthly rise in four years.

The Fed proposed a new bank bailout-prevention rule that would place new restrictions on how big financial institutions manage their finances--increasing their costs and restricting the way they run their business--in th...

Tax authorities around the world have started to share large amounts of data in an effort to crack down on cheating by taxpayers using offshore accounts.

Surging financial centres in the developing world have slowly been eroding the traditional lead enjoyed by Western nations. Buoyed by heavy-hitters in Asia, could the trend mark the emergence of a new world order in fina...

2015 has been unkind to the mortgage REIT sector. The iShares Mortgage Real Estate Capped (REM), a basket of the largest and most actively traded mortgage REITs, is down a little over 8% year to date. Including the large...

The S&P 500 is not a bad investment, but suppose you want more? It’s actually been a pretty easy index to beat over the long haul.

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF), where a total volume of 12,096 contracts has been traded thus far today, a...

The financial services sector took a hit, but miners enjoyed a surprise rise at the end of the week

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 673,096 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contrac...

As of 6pm on 30 Oct, the institutional investors' category was subscribed 25.5 times, while the wealthy individuals' and retail investors' categories were subscribed 87.3 and 2 times, respectively

In afternoon trading on Friday, Energy stocks are the best performing sector, higher by 1.8%. Within the sector, Marathon Oil Corp. (NYSE: MRO) and Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX) are two large stocks leading the way, showing a ...

Looking at the sectors faring worst as of midday Friday, shares of Financial companies are underperforming other sectors, showing a 0.9% loss. Within that group, Genworth Financial, Inc. (NYSE: GNW) and KeyCorp (NYSE: KE...

Exxon Mobil and Chevron have greater ability to weather low oil prices and maintain payouts than many believe, though there's always a catch.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. bond prices were little changed Friday, reflecting confidence among investors that the drug firm has the financial strength to repay its large debt load.

Valeant could have handled things better in responding to concerns over its specialty-pharmacy relationships, but the company's business is fundamentally sound, major Valeant shareholder William Ackman said.

One of the original craft beer pioneers is in trouble from the movement he helped create.

As expected, the decline in gold prices over the last twelve months negatively impacted the company?s profits. However, Barrick?s ongoing efforts to reduce operating costs and improve the productivity of its operations, ...

In its earnings release for Q3 2015, Starbucks stated that it will deploy its Mobile Order & Pay, which was available in 4,000 stores, to all of its U.S. company operated stores by the holiday season. Mobile Order & Pay ...

Overall broadcasting C3 ratings plunged in the low double digits in the coveted 18-49 demographics during the third quarter, which will impact the company's advertising income. Looking at CBS' cable networks, the picture...

Starbucks Corporation (SBUX) declared a cash dividend of $0.20 per share, an increase of 25%, payable on November 27, 2015 to shareholders of record as of November 12, 2015.

Leading application delivery network solutions provider F5 Networks reported its Q4 2015 and fiscal 2015 earnings on October 28th. (Fiscal years end with September.) Though the company ended 2015 with record earnings per...

Earlier there were rumors about a merger between Intercontinental Hotels and Starwood, but that was later quashed by Intercontinental. Hyatt could emerge as a serious bidder for Starwood and up its ante against larger pl...