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Count Macy's among the retailers that is grateful for that bout of cold weather in January.

London Stock Exchange Group and Deutsche Börse are in talks about a potential merger that would create a combined group worth more than $28 billion.

A new generation of tech-focused startups are charging into real-estate brokerage, rolling out an array of mobile services in hopes of grabbing a piece of the red-hot U.S. apartment market.

The rise of online shopping is battering the big department stores known as anchors that once lured shoppers to malls--leaving landlords with empty space and forcing them to undertake expensive overhauls to stay relevant...

Since 2013, Pure Storage has grown revenue by 436% compounded annually, but it seems IPO investors chose to overlook the fact that profits have remained negative.

In the looking-glass world of modern central banking, almost nothing is taboo, with even the abolition of cash discussed seriously by top monetary wonks. One idea not yet considered: the Bank of Japan should print money ...

Viacom move to explore opportunities for a stake in Paramount could help it command a higher valuation.

Many of the same growth problems that have hurt HP for years likely won't go away in its coming earnings report.

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Universal Display Corp (NASD: OLED), where a total volume of 3,126 contracts has been traded thus far ...

The hard-drive maker still has good reasons to buy SanDisk, but the deal has become a tough sell.

The growing clout of state-backed Chinese oil traders is raising concerns over their influence on the price of crude as trade increasingly flows into markets with little regulatory oversight.

On 2/25/16, Barrick Gold Corp. (Toronto: ABX) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.02, payable on 3/15/16. As a percentage of ABX's recent stock price of $18.06, this dividend works out to approximate...

When markets are plunging and all the news is bad, it’s difficult to stay focused on your current action plan.

The current surge in railway capex is not expected to benefit all the companies uniformly in the initial years

As the Fed starts to normalize interest rates, good old stock picking is coming back into fashion. Outperforming the market over a full bear-to-bull cycle is not impossible, but it is very difficult, with risk management...

The Sensex returns for 2015-16 are nothing to cheer about, but foreign investors, who have put their dollars into Indian stocks have lost much more

In trading on Tuesday, shares of BCE Inc.'s Cumulative Redeemable First Preferred Shares, Series AA (Toronto: BCE-PRA) were yielding above the 6.5% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $0.8625), with share...

Nearly everyone can recall playing Monopoly as a child, and for many, the game served as their first exposure to handling different denominations of cash. It was exhilarating to have someone land on your Park Place prope...

Iron ore prices have recovered from their low levels of $40/tonne to cross $50/tonne in February. This has seen steel prices hardent too

What To Expect From Transocean's 2015 Financial Results?  Weak Drilling Activity Due To Plummeting Commodity Prices Is Likely To Drive Down Transocean’s 2015 Results.  In the tables below, we chart the impact  of lo...

A venture of a private-equity firm and Mideast investor has purchased Saint-Gobain's North American headquarters near Philadelphia in a $123 million deal that shines some light on how this year's turmoil in the global ca...

Yields differ between states at auction of SDLs; West Bengal pays the most, Odisha the least