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A clash Thursday between Japan's central-bank chief and lawmakers highlighted the downside of negative interest rates: They are making the Japanese public feel negative.

Wal-Mart's stock was tumbling on Thursday after the retail giant trimmed its full-year revenue forecast.

Markets in Asia rose Thursday as worries about the global financial system and the U.S.'s ability to withstand turmoil overseas abated somewhat.

U.S. regulators, moving against what they see as abusive practices in the municipal- and corporate-bond markets, are poised to crack down on large fees that can eat into investor returns.

North American oil-and-gas producers have sold more than $5 billion of follow-on stock offerings during the first two months of the year.

The FBI raided the headquarters of United Development Funding, a large sponsor of real-estate investment trusts and other vehicles, sending shares of UDF's largest fund, United Development Funding IV, tumbling 54% on Thu...

(Kitco News) - Gold prices ended the U.S. day session with solid gains Thursday. Some early profit-taking was overcome by bargain hunters buying the dip and by fresh chart-based buying interest—both of which coincided ...

Warren Buffett's boosted bet on Deere, a poster child for the struggling agricultural-equipment industry, looks good, but early.

That online retirement planning tool just might be hazardous to your financial security in later life.

The directors of a company tend to have a unique inside view into the business, so when directors make major buys, investors are wise to take notice. Presumably the only reason a director of a company would choose to tak...

Growing its new initiatives will help Big Blue tame its many bears

Against a backdrop of heightened market volatility, India opts for continuity by extending U.K. Sinha's term as Sebi chief by a year

April-December figures show that public capex has jumped by one-third compared with the budgeted 6.5%

The sharp fall in share prices is not just because investors have revisited heady valuations for Internet firms, but also because of a decline in Justdial's core business

Unless the govt reduces interest rates on NSSs further and makes them comparable to bank rates, the revision in the small savings rate may not make much of a difference

The Coca-Cola Company approved the Company's 54th consecutive annual dividend increase, raising the quarterly dividend 6 percent from 33 cents to 35 cents per common share. This is equivalent to an annual dividend of $1....

The First Trust Small Cap Growth AlphaDEX Fund ETF (FYC) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Thursday, with over 145,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 38,000. Shares of FYC wer...

Ford Motors‘ recorded a 36% increase in sales in China for January 2016 compared to the same month last year.  This comes on the back of a 3% increase in sales in the region in 2015 compared to the previous year and a...

In trading on Thursday, the Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 5.2% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Coeur Mining (CDE), up about 11.5% and...

Contract manufacturing is seen as a good hedge against the seasonality of domestic crop season for agrochemical firms, but the slump in global agriculture is putting that assumption to the test

The onslaughter of the plummeting commodity prices has not ended yet. Oil and gas companies that were once flourishing due to the all-time high commodity prices are now struggling to survive the commodity down cycle. Che...

In trading on Thursday, oil & gas exploration & production shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 3%. Helping drag down the group were shares of Ultra Petroleum (UPL), down about 36.8% and shares of Linn...