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1987 All Over Again? The action over the past few weeks on Wall Street reminds me of what has happening before Black Monday in 1987. In 1987, stocks topped out in August and crashed in October. This time around stocks to...

As emerging markets’ growth has slowed, many consumer companies have started to look back to developed economies for growth.  The U.S. is a particular bright spot: Consumers, who drive three-quarters of output in the ...

Despite slashing prices and hiking advertising and promotions spending, all HUL has managed to do is stand at the same spot--volume growth has been in the 6-7% range in the past four quarters

U.S. recession fears rattled financial stocks anew Friday even as a generally strong bank-earnings season continued, baffling some executives who said they see few signs of worry for the U.S. economy.

Shares of the biggest banks are crashing even though banks aren't in the kind of trouble that would warrant such sharp falls.

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Friday, shares of Services companies are outperforming other sectors, losing just 1.3%. Within that group, Wynn Resorts Ltd (NASD: WYNN) and Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc (NYS...

The worst performing sector as of midday Friday is the Energy sector, showing a 4.5% loss. Within that group, Marathon Oil Corp. (NYSE: MRO) and Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) are two large stocks that are lagging, showing ...

Markets around the world are reeling in early 2016. These are the facts and figures you need to know about China, oil prices and the big stock selloff.

What the markets did yesterday or will do tomorrow has little bearing on investments laid down to pay for a pension in 10, 20 or 30 years' time

RBI's price was marginally higher than the prevailing price of bullion in the market on Friday

BlackRock (BLK) announced a 5% increase in the quarterly cash dividend to $2.29 per share of common stock, payable March 23, 2016, to shareholders of record at the close of business on March 7, 2016.

How Does Unilever's EBITDA Margins Compare With Its Peers?  Despite being the second largest CPG company in the world, Unilever’s EBITDA margin lags behind its peers.

Post the investment, Ctrip would have the rights to appoint a director to MakeMyTrip's board of directors. (Read Press Release.) Ctrip's interest in India might be because of the similarities in the travel scenario in bo...

In trading on Friday, the Gold Miners ETF (GDX) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 0.9% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Detour Gold (DGC.CA), up about 7.6% and shares o...

In trading on Friday, shipping shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 7%. Helping drag down the group were shares of CAI International (CAI), off about 18.6% and shares of Textainer Group Holdings (TGH) ...

Another important factor behind JPMorgan's earnings beat was the sharp increase in net interest income. Although the benefits from the Fed's rate hike in late December will only reflect fully across JPMorgan's businesses...

In trading on Friday, precious metals shares were relative leaders, down on the day by about 1.2%. Leading the group were shares of Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), up about 6.4% and shares of Great Panther Silver (GPL) up abo...

Leading PC processor manufacturer, Intel reported its Q4 2015 and full year 2015 earnings on January 19th. Earnings were consistent with company expectations, as the significant decline in PCs was offset by strong growth...

Fed officials, facing an economic jumble as 2016 begins, will almost certainly keep rates steady at a policy meeting this month and turn their focus toward a potential cliffhanger decision about whether to lift them when...

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Qualcomm, Inc. (NASD: QCOM), where a total volume of 122,942 contracts has been traded thus far today, a co...

The global shift to cashless consumer payments has started and will accelerate over the next three to five years.  Unlike nearly all major demand shifts of the last century, this one will move from East to West. China ...

What to do right now? In the midst of a 500 point drop in the DJIA and the major indexes falling through their late-August "Flash Crash" levels I have seen several articles today advising investors to "do nothing."  Tha...