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American Capital Agency Corp (NASD: AGNC) has been named as a Top 10 Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), according to Dividend Channel, which published its most recent ''DividendRank'' report. The report noted that amon...

The free-spending e-commerce giant posted its fourth straight quarterly profit, boosted by a 28 percent rise in sales.

Trump wants to raise spending, particularly on infrastructure and the military, build a wall along our Southern border, and turn Obamacare into Trumpcare. As it stands now, our deficit is about $450 billion, or 3% of GDP...

Asset management companies may soon lose power to impose redemption limits on mutual fund schemes

The DividendRank formula at Dividend Channel ranks a coverage universe of thousands of dividend stocks, according to a proprietary formula designed to identify those stocks that combine two important characteristics — ...

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in FirstEnergy Corp (NYSE: FE), where a total volume of 19,789 contracts has been traded thus far today, ...

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Cardtronics Inc (NASD: CATM), where a total volume of 1,311 contracts has been traded thus far today, ...

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Crown Media Holdings Inc (NASD: CRWN), where a total of 1,229 contracts have traded so far, representing approx...

Higher sales volumes helped limit the decline in ACC's Ebitda by about 11% to `370 crore

The worst performing sector as of midday Thursday is the Technology & Communications sector, showing a 0.6% loss. Within the sector, Xilinx, Inc. (NASD: XLNX) and First Solar Inc (NASD: FSLR) are two of the day's laggard...

The best performing sector as of midday Thursday is the Healthcare sector, up 0.3%. Within that group, St Jude Medical Inc (NYSE: STJ) and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASD: VRTX) are two of the day's stand-outs, showin...

Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM) declared a cash dividend of 75 cents per share on the Common Stock, payable on June 10, 2016 to shareholders of record of Common Stock at the close of business on May 13, 2016.

The billionaire activist investor used to be one of Apple's biggest fans. Now it's over.

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) beat consensus revenue estimates while falling short on first quarter earnings. Revenues came in at around $360 million more than expected $11,702 million, while earnings per share came in a c...

The PowerShares Dynamic Leisure and Entertainment Portfolio ETF (PEJ) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Thursday, with over 292,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 56,000. Shar...

In trading on Thursday, the SPDR S&P Metals and Mining ETF (XME) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 4.1% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF),...

In trading on Thursday, general contractors & builders shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 4.9%. Helping drag down the group were shares of Beazer Homes USA (BZH), off about 15.7% and shares of Merita...

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Last quarter Amazon.com Inc's results wrong-footed many analysts covering the stock, who had predicted just prior to the official earnings statement being disseminated that the number would meet expectations. Not quite ...

With the resounding success of Star Wars, which was released late last year, Disney‘s Studios division has had a great start to 2016. Released in early 2016, Zootopia surpassed the $ 900 million mark at the global box ...

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Stryker Corp. (NYSE: SYK), where a total volume of 8,044 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contra...

Gross domestic product increased 0.5 percent (annual rate) after inflation adjustment, Key takeaways are near-zero growth, stable consumer spending, weak business spending, less inventory risk, and export volumes rising....