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U.S. stocks pointed to a second day of volatile, but ultimately lower, action after Monday’s slide marked the worst start to a trading year in about a decade, according to market historians. On Tuesday, Asian markets c...

Puerto Rico's government is struggling to pay its bills. But mall owners and retailers are betting that consumers on the island will keep on spending.

Shares in Asia steadied in early trading, after China's stock regulator moved to calm investor nerves following steep losses on the first trading day of the year, which sparked a global selloff.

The prolonged rout in oil has left Saudi Arabia's longstanding peg of its currency to the dollar at its most vulnerable point in more than a decade.

Puerto Rico's Department of Housing is launching a trial program that is going to be using an affordable-housing tool that has been effective in other parts of the U.S. for years.

Gold prices ended the U.S. day session modestly higher Tuesday. Some more safe-haven buying and short covering in the futures market were featured, following decent gains posted Monday.

J.P. Morgan Chase has replaced KCG, its market maker on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, with Virtu Financial, according to a trader notice sent out from the exchange.

The debate over exchange rates and sluggish manufacturing activity should garner plenty of attention in Wednesday's release of the Fed's meeting minutes.

Spectra Energy (SE) has announced a 14-cent increase in its annual dividend to $1.62 per share, or $0.405 on a quarterly basis. The dividend is payable on March 8, 2016, to shareholders of record at the close of business...

Looking at the sectors faring worst as of midday Tuesday, shares of Energy companies are underperforming other sectors, showing a 0.5% loss. Within the sector, Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. (NYSE: DO) and Transocean Lt...

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Tuesday, shares of Utilities companies are outperforming other sectors, up 0.6%. Within the sector, NRG Energy Inc (NYSE: NRG) and NiSource Inc. (NYSE: NI) are two large st...

The iShares Global Consumer Staples ETF (KXI) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Tuesday, with over 612,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 34,000. Shares of KXI were trading fl...

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Monsanto Co. (NYSE: MON), where a total volume of 29,866 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contra...

CIL has seen impressive production growth every month so far this fiscal year. But could lower demand from the power sector prove to be a party pooper?

2015 has been an eventful year for Baidu With the management putting a plan in place for building a "New Baidu," its alliance with Amazon to be the default search engine for Amazon's Kindle and Fire tablet in China, test...

Yahoo now plans to move the video properties of "Yahoo Screen" to its digital magazines, thus allowing users to discover complementary content in one place. Visitors to "Yahoo Screen" are being redirected to its home pag...

FedEx and UPS have had a lot on their plates these past few weeks as yet another holiday season came to an end. Despite the immense preparations for a quarter that witnessed ?record numbers? of packages, the shipping com...

Recent IPO Square (SQ), despite its noble cause of providing payment solutions for small to medium businesses, looks like a dangerous stock with questionable non-GAAP accounting, non-competitive business models, and an e...

I’d like to look ahead and pinpoint three asset classes that I believe hold opportunities for investors. Gold Going forward, gold prices will largely be affected by U.S. monetary policy. The Federal Reserve began its i...

Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Broadcom Corp. (NASD: BRCM), where a total of 50,986 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 5.1 mi...

Eli Lilly's weak guidance didn't ding the stock. That highlights much is riding on its pipeline.

The first trading day of 2016 got off to a rotten start, as investors worried about many things including, of course, interest rates. In the immediate term, rate worries are understandable. All we’ve heard for 30-plus ...