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Global investigators believe much of it originated with nation's 1MDB fund and moved to Prime Minister Najib Razak's accounts via offshore entities.

China's bear market has continued after a brief Lunar New Year respite as the air comes out of the stock bubble. Despite all of the measures taken by Chinese regulators to prop up the market, they have been unable to sta...

The U.S. high-yield bond market rout of the past year has been one of the major sources of market volatility as investors justifiably fret about an upcoming wave of energy sector defaults. As I've been saying for a while...

Falling gas prices should benefit Costco in several ways as it gets set to report fiscal second-quarter results.

Since the beginning of last year, the IPO market has largely been a spectacular failure, with a number of high-profile companies falling off dramatically after first sprinting out of the gate, including Box, GoPro and Fi...

Canada's biggest banks on Tuesday closed out another strong earnings season amid mounting criticism they haven't built up enough reserves to cover bad energy loans.

Cloud software company Workday puts more money into making products than selling them.

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in WhiteWave Foods Co. (NYSE: WWAV), where a total volume of 15,025 contracts has been traded thus far to...

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in j2 Global, Inc. (NASD: JCOM), where a total of 2,400 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 2...

Looking at the sectors faring worst as of midday Tuesday, shares of Utilities companies are underperforming other sectors, showing a 0.9% loss. Within that group, Pepco Holdings Inc. (NYSE: POM) and Edison International ...

In this series, we look through the most recent Dividend Channel ''DividendRank'' report, and then we cherry pick only those companies that have experienced insider buying within the past six months. The officers and dir...

The commentariat says the government is now focused on the rural and social sectors. Do the numbers support that view?

Gap Inc’s net sales for 2015 declined 4% mainly driven by a fall in Gap and Banana Republic revenue. The sales decline for these brands can be attributed to domestic and international store closures and a fall in compa...

Like other airlines, JetBlue reported a significant jump in its 2015 earnings on the back of fuel cost savings. Apart from that, the low cost carrier grew its capacity aggressively during the year, leading to a notable r...

After growing steadily over 2012-2014, equity underwriting fees at the five largest U.S. banks fell sharply in 2015. These fees largely mirror the overall performance of global equity markets in a particular year, as com...

Equity markets fell by 0.66% on Monday, the day budget was announced. That was reversed with a massive 3.4% jump on Tuesday. What gives?

In a recent interview with Fortune, the CEO of WalMart‘s subsidiary Sam’s Club stated that the retailer is making major changes to its business model which he described as a “reset for the business”.  As a part ...

A company's own top management tend to have the best inside view into the business, so when company officers make major buys, investors are wise to take notice. Presumably the only reason an insider would take their hard...

The troubles for mortgage servicing giant Ocwen Financial, once a stock market darling and the biggest handler of subprime mortgages in the United States, continue to mount.

The European Central Bank will review its stimulus next week against a background of heightened economic risks and weaker-than-expected inflation, ECB President Mario Draghi said.

Investing cynics may be leery of China's shaky real-estate market but one contrarian institutional real-estate investor, a Hong Kong-based family-run firm, is still making aggressive bets.

As many as 424 companies raised `1.94 trillion through bond sales in first nine months of fiscal 2016