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Brian Smoluch: At Hood River Capital Management, we manage about $800 million in small-cap growth assets. The firm is owned in equal amounts by the three portfolio managers.

After eight years of unconventional monetary policy initiatives of immense scale from the world's global central banks, we appear to be grappling with the limitations of monetary policy. Despite herculean efforts over th...

Nikkei.com continues with negative Apple spin yet again

Despite a strong start at the beginning of the week, gold prices have ended the week in negative territory. To add insult to injury, the yellow metal is no longer the best performing precious metal as silver now claims t...

In a vacuum Bats has a great IPO.

Looking at the sectors faring worst as of midday Friday, shares of Energy companies are underperforming other sectors, showing a 1.0% loss. Within the sector, Marathon Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: MPC) and National Oilwell Var...

The best performing sector as of midday Friday is the Utilities sector, higher by 0.7%. Within that group, NRG Energy Inc (NYSE: NRG) and Edison International (NYSE: EIX) are two of the day's stand-outs, showing a gain o...

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Microsoft Corporation (NASD: MSFT), where a total volume of 139,378 contracts has been traded thus far toda...

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...

Over the last 5 years, Intuitive Surgical’s revenue from Instruments and Accessories and Services, as a percentage of the total revenue, has increased significantly. However, in the same time frame, the sales growth fr...

Costco Wholesale (COST) has declared a quarterly cash dividend on Costco common stock and approved a quarterly increase from $.40 to $.45 per share, or $1.80 per share on an annualized basis. The dividend is payable May ...

Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Alphabet Inc (NASD: GOOG), where a total of 27,466 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 2.7 mill...

Reports suggest that eBay plans to launch its Indian payment service PaisaPay in some of its other international markets. This marks a turn since its split with Paypal, which traditionally handled the payments aspect of ...

In trading on Friday, the Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 4.2% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of IAMGOLD (IAG), up about 7.9% and share...

In trading on Friday, computers shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 2.1%.  Helping drag down the group were shares of Super Micro Computer (SMCI), off about 18.4% and shares of Ixia (XXIA) down about...

In trading on Friday, precious metals shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 3.5%.  Leading the group were shares of Golden Star Resources (GSS), up about 18.4% and shares of Timmins Gold (TGD) up about 15...

The streaming giant needs the cash but can't afford to lose subscribers.

After the worst start ever to a trading year, the U.S. stock market has reversed and is now up for the year.  The S&P 500 is up close to 2.0% year to date after having lost 10% at one point in early February.  What a r...

The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the components of the S&P 500 index, Dollar General (DG) is now the #59 analyst pick, moving up by 3 spots.

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) are a more reliable source of income than many comparable high yielding stocks in volatile sectors like energy. That’s because REITs are legally required to hand over the bulk of t...

Move signals a growing willingness among public pensions to pull money from investment vehicles, whose highly paid managers have frequently failed to outperform

Deep into the thicket of Q1 bank earnings, Morgan Stanley emerges with its results before the bell Monday. Given the choppy reports from other big banks so far this week, most analysts expect a financial pile mixed with ...