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The stunning rise and drastic drop in Valeant's stock price is a reminder that growth built on acquisitions almost always hits a wall.

The networking equipment maker's new leadership, partnership approach and reasonable valuation suggest the stock is worth a look.

Big banks are finding themselves again in the political cross hairs, no matter the party. That's not good for their investors.

China's volatile stock markets may have claimed another victim: hope for the start of a Chinese oil-futures contract this year to rival global benchmarks Brent and West Texas Intermediate in the trillion-dollar market.

Hopes of creating the world's biggest brewer helped drag the FTSE out of a rut

Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Amazon.com Inc. (NASD: AMZN), where a total of 96,904 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 9.7 m...

Looking at the sectors faring worst as of midday Wednesday, shares of Energy companies are underperforming other sectors, showing a 3.3% loss. Within the sector, Marathon Oil Corp. (NYSE: MRO) and Apache Corp. (NYSE: APA...

In afternoon trading on Wednesday, Utilities stocks are the best performing sector, higher by 0.5%. Within that group, Entergy Corp. (NYSE: ETR) and PPL Corp (NYSE: PPL) are two large stocks leading the way, showing a ga...

Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Salesforce.com Inc (NYSE: CRM), where a total of 23,784 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 2.4...

McDonald's declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.89 per share of common stock payable on December 15, 2015 to shareholders of record at the close of business on December 1, 2015. This represents a 5% increase over the...

Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley all want to tax financial transactions. Here is how their approaches differ.

FedEx and UPS are expecting this holiday season to be a big one, as both companies expect increased delivery rates this quarter. UPS is expecting its deliveries to rise by 10% over the same quarter last year, including a...

The company has had a rough ride in the last few months, facing roadblocks in the form of various internal and macroeconomic headwinds. Petrobras is currently experiencing the crippling effects of one of the worst worker...

The company fell marginally short of the analyst expectations with Q3 fiscal 2015 earnings report as weak foundry spending weighed on the semiconductor tool division, which constitutes 65% of revenue and 60% of valuation...

Yes, build it and they will come-but forever?

On Monday, Overstock reported its first loss in 15 quarters. It's been downhill for investors since then.

The Guggenheim S&P 500 Equal Weight Energy ETF (RYE) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Wednesday, with over 149,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 42,000.  Shares of RYE were...

In trading on Wednesday, the iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF (ITB) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 1.6% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Beazer Homes USA (BZH), ...

In trading on Wednesday, oil & gas equipment & services shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 4.4%.  Helping drag down the group were shares of Atwood Oceanics (ATW), down about 10.8% and shares of New...

In trading on Wednesday, beverages & wineries shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 1.6%.  Leading the group were shares of Molson Coors Brewing (TAP), up about 3.3% and shares of Coca-Cola Bottling (COKE...

Apple's new super-sized tablet may not replace many laptops, but it doesn't have to.

A freeze on mainland-listed shares associated with a Chinese fund manager arrested for alleged insider trading and stock-price manipulation has widened to include two more companies.