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GOOGL (Alphabet, Inc. Class A) showed significant weakness after Thursday’s close when they reported Earnings and Revenues short of Analysts’ Expectations. While it remains to see where the shares will reopen tomorro...

As oil prices head back up, investors should be keeping an eye on the potential risks, says Commonwealth Financial Network's CIO Brad McMillan.

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...

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Straight Path Communications Inc (AMEX: STRP), where a total volume of 3,436 contracts has been traded...

For just the third time in the past 23 weeks, at least one in three individual investors say they are optimistic about the short-term direction of stock prices.

Results were largely on expected lines and didn't do much to affect the RIL stock's valuations

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Friday, shares of Energy companies are outperforming other sectors, up 2.4%. Within that group, Southwestern Energy Company (NYSE: SWN) and Range Resources Corp (NYSE: RRC)...

In afternoon trading on Friday, Technology & Communications stocks are the worst performing sector, showing a 0.5% loss. Within that group, Microsoft Corporation (NASD: MSFT) and Alphabet Inc (NASD: GOOGL) are two large ...

Is it premature to call Hillary Clinton Madam President? Probably not. Without getting into an argument over Donald Trump's prospective primacy, the Republican far right, honed irrepressibly by Charles Koch, won't strike...

The Charles Schwab Corporation declared a one cent, or 17%, increase in the quarterly cash dividend to $0.07 per common share. The dividend is payable May 27, 2016 to stockholders of record as of the close of business on...

E*Trade Financial announced its Q1 fiscal 2016 earnings on Thursday, April 21st, reporting a 7% year-on-year (y-o-y) rise in net revenues to $472 million. In line with our expectations, daily average revenue trades (DART...

The iShares Residential Real Estate Capped ETF (REZ) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 350,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 60,000.  Shares of REZ were up...

In trading on Friday, the SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF (XOP) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 2.7% on the day.  Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Southwestern E...

In trading on Friday, oil & gas exploration & production shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 3.2%.  Leading the group were shares of Legacy Reserves (LGCY), up about 28.7% and shares of Southwestern Ene...

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA), where a total volume of 153,765 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contrac...

T-Mobile U.S. – the third largest and fastest growing U.S. wireless carrier – will publish Q1 2016 earnings on April 26th. We expect the company’s revenues and earnings to improve on a year-over-year basis, driven ...

Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Alphabet Inc (NASD: GOOGL), where a total of 71,122 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 7.1 mil...

Formula E can expect a certain je ne sais quoi as the championship prepares for first Paris ePrix.

First I am reluctant to call these "VIX" based products as the ETF's and ETN's are not tied to spot VIX as we know it and see it reported every day.  The vast majority of "VIX" linked, exchange traded product are tied t...

Halliburton, among the world’s biggest energy industry providers of products and services, kicks off next week’s earnings parade with Q1 results ahead of the bell Monday.

Valeant's big move to replace outgoing CEO Michael Pearson has won the stock a well-deserved rally. The road won't get easier.

Certain stocks are beating the S&P while paying dividends three to seven times the market’s average. Thanks to gradual improvements in the economy and higher interest rates, these stocks have trounced the S&P 500 in 20...