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Wall Street Journal personal-finance columnist Jason Zweig's new book, "The Devil's Financial Dictionary," is a satirical glossary of investing terms.

Sequoia Capital has funneled millions of dollars to well-connected entrepreneurs and academics who put the money in startups and look for ideas for the venture-capital firm.

SunEdison's margin call sheds light on classic parable of how cheap money and financial engineering are proving a toxic cocktail in current markets.

Foreign trade in France and Germany hurt as their export sectors suffered from emerging markets slowing down

While the move is likely to weigh on investor sentiment when mainland markets re-open on Monday, the Shanghai bourse said it will help prevent systemic risks from building in China's financial system

Oil prices hovering just above $40 a barrel could keep going lower following surprising revelations about stockpiles.

In afternoon trading on Friday, Materials stocks are the best performing sector, up 0.8%. Within that group, CONSOL Energy Inc (NYSE: CNX) and Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) are two of the day's stand-outs, showing a gain of 4.3...

A run of disappointing news hit retail stocks such as Nordstrom, J.C. Penney and Macy's. But shoppers will soon start spreading holiday cheer.

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Williams Sonoma Inc (NYSE: WSM), where a total of 8,184 contracts have traded so far, representing approximatel...

The pay-TV industry saw significant activity this week, with Comcast announcing that it plans to unify its existing video apps and launch a singular app. The unified app will be able to adjust the content viewable by use...

These recent strategic moves, which include dramatically raising sales and marketing efforts, trimming down its international portfolio, and moving away from certain low-margin goods businesses, involve a considerable de...

Nvidia's focus on addressing the top 30% of the market (mainly those vertical segments where visual computing matters the most) is clearly paying off and has helped it outpace the PC market, where it has always had a sig...

Overall revenues came in at the lower end of the expectations as WFE (Wafer Fab Equipment) spending remained sluggish due to lower-than-expected sales of 200 mm equipment. During the entire year, weak foundry spending we...

Group 1 Automotive (GPI) declared a cash dividend of $0.22 per share for the third quarter of 2015. The dividend, which represents an increase of 4.8 percent, or $0.01 per share, from the second quarter of 2015, will be ...

The MLP ETF (MLPA) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 561,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 139,000.  Shares of MLPA were trading flat on the day.

Market Report: FTSE 100 endures its worst weekly loss since mid-August after Rolls-Royce came under pressure for a second-consecutive trading session.

In trading on Friday, the SPDR S&P Pharmaceuticals ETF (XPH) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 2.4% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Mylan (MYL), up about 13.4% and s...

In trading on Friday, advertising shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 7.3%.  Helping drag down the group were shares of Maxpoint Interactive (MXPT), off about 50.3% and shares of Sizmek (SZMK) off ab...

In trading on Friday, drugs shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 2%.  Leading the group were shares of Lipocine (LPCN), up about 26.7% and shares of Concordia Healthcare (CXRX) up about 19.1% on the day.

A report on competitiveness from a U.K. bank lobby group undermines its own weak arguments.

More than four out of ten individual investors describe their six-month outlook for stock prices as "neutral" for a second consecutive week, according to the latest AAII Sentiment Survey.

Star hedge-fund trader Chris Rokos has tapped Deutsche Bank and Bank of America as the main brokers for his new hedge fund.