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Legendary investor Peter Lynch was fond of saying that corporate insiders may sell their company’s shares for a variety of reasons. But there’s only one reason they buy – and that’s because they think the price i...

Mexico City's Autódromo Hermanos Rodriguez circuit has witnessed some titanic tussles down the years, but nothing ever quite like this.

MetLife's victory in court undermines the rationale for breaking up the company.

Benchmark 10-year government bond has dropped 17 basis points this March, biggest fall for a 10-year bond in any March since 1999

Commonwealth's CIO Brad McMillan reacts to Janet Yellen's announcement that the Fed will keep rates lower for longer.

Economic downturns present less competition and make talent easily available, says the founding and managing partner of VC firm Jungle Ventures

For Reliance Industries Ltd, there is a marginal negative impact, as the gas production business is currently very small and will not swing the needle

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Thursday, shares of Energy companies are outperforming other sectors, higher by 1.0%. Within that group, Marathon Oil Corp. (NYSE: MRO) and Southwestern Energy Company (NYS...

The Indian market has rallied after the government stuck to fiscal prudence during the Union budget for 2016-17, raising expectations of a rate cut by the central bank

Indian equities suffer in 2015-16 as foreign investors pull out of emerging markets in flight to safer havens

If Equitas can pull off the issue, it will end with a stronger balance sheet and position itself for the transition ahead

Small moves in the labor-force-participation rate could have a big impact on the unemployment rate and future monetary policy.

The onset of redetermination season in the oil patch will bring bad news for dozens of energy companies as low prices lead to pared credit.

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Alphabet Inc (NASD: GOOGL), where a total volume of 14,962 contracts has been traded thus far today, a cont...

Nasdaq (NDAQ) has declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.32 per share on the company's outstanding common stock, a 28% increase from the prior $0.25 per share. The dividend is payable on June 24, 2016, to shareowner...

Gold prices ended the U.S. day session moderately higher Thursday, on some bargain hunting buying interest following recent selling pressure.

Recent reports suggest that Facebook might roll out an in-store mobile payment option on its Messenger app, which the company is currently upgrading. As the social media site inches closer to the 1 billion user mark, t...

The iShares MSCI Israel Capped ETF (EIS) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Thursday, with over 136,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 50,000.  Shares of EIS were up about 0.1...

In trading on Thursday, the First Trust NYSE Arca Biotechnology Index Fund ETF (FBT) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 4% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Medivation ...

In trading on Thursday, precious metals shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 1%.  Helping drag down the group were shares of Caledonia Mining (CALVF), down about 8.3% and shares of Comstock Mining (LO...

In trading on Thursday, biotechnology shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 3.4%.  Leading the group were shares of Genocea Biosciences (GNCA), up about 25.7% and shares of Medivation (MDVN) up about 24.6...

Some of the charges companies have been excluding from pro forma results are worth ignoring. But the data suggest a great many of them aren't.