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Europe's new banking watchdog has ordered the biggest eurozone banks to increase their capital levels by 0.5 percentage point on average after a yearlong assessment of their risks.

China's beleaguered top securities regulator is stepping down after policy missteps contributed to months of volatility and heavy selling in the country's stock markets.

Fannie Mae will send $2.9 billion to the Treasury Department in March, as profit grew in its fourth quarter because of the impact of increased interest rates.

Couples who want to take advantage of a popular strategy that is being eliminated must act no later than April 29.

Video offerings from Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile show why the long-term thesis for wireless companies no longer rests on selling more data.

The mortgage giants' fourth-quarter results show there is unlikely to be any value left for shareholders no matter the outcome of investor lawsuits.

ZTO Express is planning a U.S. initial public offering that could be the biggest U.S. listing by a Chinese company since Alibaba's $25 billion IPO.

Even with the pullback, pessimism remains above its historical average.

In afternoon trading on Friday, Energy stocks are the worst performing sector, showing a 2.0% loss. Within the sector, Southwestern Energy Company (NYSE: SWN) and Murphy Oil Corp (NYSE: MUR) are two large stocks that are...

NSEL has not listed the dues to investors who lost money in the payments crisis as a liability in its books

Anthem (ANTM) authorized an increase of 4 percent in the Company's shareholder dividend and declared a $0.65 per share dividend for the first quarter of 2016. The first quarter dividend is payable on March 25, 2016, to s...

Building on its software defined networking strategy, networking company Juniper recently partnered with Affirmed Networks, a leader in virtualized mobile networks. Through the deal, the companies plan to develop solutio...

In the absence of growth in developed automotive markets, Volkswagen AG looked to China to ramp up its overall sales volume in the last few years. And China has yet again become important for the automaker, which is knee...

Earlier in October last year, the Pentagon announced that Northrop Grumman had won the contract to design and build 100 next-gen long range strike bombers for the U.S. Air Force — the LRS-B aircraft. The contract is es...

Dish Network released its 2015 fourth quarter & full year earnings report recently.  Dish’s pay-TV subscriber base continued to shrink but growth in ARPU resulted in moderate pay-TV revenue growth for the year 2015. A...

Motorola Solutions is scheduled to report its Q4 2015 earnings on Monday, February 22nd, and we expect the company’s results to be impacted by macroeconomic headwinds in Latin America, Europe and Africa. Also, a declin...

The iShares MSCI USA Minimum Volatility ETF (USMV) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 14.6 million shares traded versus three month average volume of about 3.1 million. Shares of USMV ...

In trading on Friday, the iShares Cohen & Steers REIT ETF (ICF) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 1.1% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Equinix REIT (EQIX), up about 3....

In trading on Friday, oil & gas exploration & production shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 3.6%. Helping drag down the group were shares of Ultra Petroleum (UPL), down about 38.4% and shares of EP E...

In trading on Friday, advertising shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 2.3%. Leading the group were shares of Groupon (GRPN), up about 12.2% and shares of MDC Partners (MDCA) up about 10.1% on the day.

These four large-stock mutual funds have declined less than peers so far in 2016 and are near the top of the charts in long-term performance.

Higher services prices are pushing overall prices higher. But with no pickup in goods prices, some companies could be left in the lurch.