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The battle for Starwood Hotels continued as the group led by China's Anbang increased its bid for the hotelier to $14 billion, threatening Starwood's deal with Marriott.

In China, which consumes more than a fifth of the global gold supply, the usual jewelry buying is taking a back seat to the buying of coins and bars by investors seeking a haven from global economic uncertainty.

A flashy class of mutual funds that allow retail investors to tap into exotic strategies pioneered by hedge funds is colliding with the one force that threatens its growth: regulators on the hunt for systemic risk.

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, on 3/30/16, Drew Industries, Inc. (NYSE: DW), Mondelez International Inc (NASD: MDLZ), and Ralph Lauren Corp (NYSE: RL) will all trade ex-dividend for their...

Avon Products has settled a skirmish with activist investors that will enable the embattled beauty-products company to sidestep a proxy fight.

Economists generally agree that government subsidies and price caps distort free markets. Energy subsidies combined with price control can reduce supply when producers do not have a profit incentive to increase supply.

Small- and mid-cap stocks have the biggest potential for growth. Investopedia defines a small-cap as a company with a market capitalization, or market value, between $300 million and $2 billion. A mid-cap has $2 billion ...

Avon Products is nearing the settlement of a skirmish with activist investors that would enable the embattled beauty-products company to sidestep a proxy fight.

The most recent short interest data has been released by the NASDAQ for the 03/15/2016 settlement date, and we here at Dividend Channel like to sift through this fresh data and order the underlying components of the Dow ...

Bonds are less risky than stocks, and have performed well for a very long time. Bonds have had impressively strong risk-adjusted returns over the past 30 years because bond prices rise as interest rates fall, and rates h...

Amid the epic recovery in risky assets since mid-February, one thing has been missing: an equivalent selloff of the havens to which investors rushed during the earlier panic.

The stake sale by GVK Power gives a breather to tide over cash flow constraints at least in the near term

Full immunity from China's economic slowdown is not something that India can boast about

The most recent short interest data has been released by the NASDAQ for the 03/15/2016 settlement date, which shows a 599,884 share increase in total short interest for Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: LYV), to 5,8...

The most recent short interest data has been released by the NASDAQ for the 03/15/2016 settlement date, and we here at Dividend Channel like to sift through this fresh data and order the underlying components of the Nasd...

The most recent short interest data has been released by the NASDAQ for the 03/15/2016 settlement date, and we here at Dividend Channel like to sift through this fresh data and order the underlying components of the Nasd...

The most recent short interest data has been released by the NASDAQ for the 03/15/2016 settlement date, and we here at Dividend Channel like to sift through this fresh data and order the underlying components of the Nasd...

The most recent short interest data has been released by the NASDAQ for the 03/15/2016 settlement date, which shows a 6,787,718 share decrease in total short interest for Noble Corp plc (NYSE: NE), to 50,331,656, a decre...

The most recent short interest data has been released by the NASDAQ for the 03/15/2016 settlement date, and we here at Dividend Channel like to sift through this fresh data and order the underlying components of the Nasd...

Even amid favorable macroeconomic trends, home-builder stocks, including Lennar, remain well off their summer highs.

Prosecutors charged former Blackstone managing principal Andrew W.W. Caspersen, most recently an executive at Park Hill, with stealing $25 million from investors, and scheming to defraud investors of $70 million more.

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Monday, shares of Services companies are outperforming other sectors, up 1.1%. Within the sector, Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX) and Marriott International, Inc. (NASD: MAR) a...