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State regulators in California have launched an inquiry into the fast-growing marketplace lending industry.

China's central bank signaled its intention to change the way it manages the yuan's value by potentially loosening its peg to the U.S. dollar and instead letting it track the currencies of its broader trading partners.

Martin Whitman spent decades buying unloved stocks and bonds, usually profiting as they rose in value. But lately the investments are turning into blunders, not bargains.

The DividendRank formula at Dividend Channel ranks a coverage universe of thousands of dividend stocks, according to a proprietary formula designed to identify those stocks that combine two important characteristics — ...

(Kitco News) - It was a tough week for most gold-mining stocks if their operations weren't based in South Africa.

In this series, we look through the most recent Dividend Channel ''DividendRank'' report, and then we cherry pick only those companies that have experienced insider buying within the past six months. The officers and dir...

Gold sentiment is mixed as most retail investors expect to see negative prices next week and most market analysts expected higher prices on short covering after the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) monetary policy me...

The most recent short interest data has just been released by the NASDAQ for the 11/30/2015 settlement date, and we here at Dividend Channel have sifted through this fresh data and screened out these five Dow Jones Indus...

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 125,101 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 12.5...

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Friday, shares of Utilities companies are outperforming other sectors, losing just 0.2%. Within that group, CenterPoint Energy, Inc (NYSE: CNP) and Edison International (NY...

It's been a great year to own shares of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google. But the odds are stacked against a repeat performance in 2016.

Plunging oil prices are another sign OPEC's assumptions about global output were way off and that the pain of low prices may last well into 2016.

CME Group witnessed four consecutive quarters of growth in trading activity in 2014. The growth spree continued through the first three quarters of this year, with average daily volumes increasing by an aggregated 7% on ...

The FTSE 100 fell to its lowest level since September after a weak rand and the global commodity price rout weighed on investor sentiment.

Yahoo! profitability measured in terms of EBITDA margin is less than half of that of Google and its revenues have declined by more than 30% since 2008. The company continues to spend a significant amount on product devel...

Abbott (ABT) increased the company's quarterly dividend to 26 cents per share from 24 cents per share. The cash dividend is payable Feb. 16, 2016, to shareholders of record at the close of business on Jan. 15, 2016.

Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY), where a total of 12,139 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 1.2 mi...

The Apple Watch has been seeing some deep discounts over the last few weeks. Apple authorized retailer Best Buy slashed $100 off the retail price, while Target was offering as much as $100 off on the device via gift card...

The PowerShares FTSE RAFI US 1500 Small-Mid Portfolio ETF (PRFZ) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 856,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 32,000.  Shares of...

In trading on Friday, the Gold Miners ETF (GDX) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 1.1% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Gold Fields (GFI), up about 4.7% and shares of...

In trading on Friday, oil & gas exploration & production shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 4.6%.  Helping drag down the group were shares of Seadrill Partners LLC (SDLP), off about 15.4% and shares...

In trading on Friday, railroads shares were relative leaders, down on the day by about 0.3%.  Leading the group were shares of CSX Corporation (CSX), up about 3.5% and shares of Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC) up abo...