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South Asia will have nearly one million job seekers every month for the next three decades. One area of potential employment for them is the apparel industry, says the World Bank in a new report.

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, on 5/3/16, Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS), Macerich Co. (NYSE: MAC), and Opus Bank Irvine (NASD: OPB) will all trade ex-dividend for their respecti...

Chinese banks' precarious balance of provisioning just enough for bad loans while keeping profits flat won't last much longer.

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 — ...

Retail investors and high net-worth individual investors bid for 8.45 times and 225.3 times the number of shares reserved for them in IPO, respectively

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Friday, shares of Utilities companies are outperforming other sectors, losing just 0.5%. Within the sector, Pinnacle West Capital Corp. (NYSE: PNW) and AGL Resources Inc. (...

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 27,272 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 2.7 mil...

Tortoise Talk An Energy Value Chain Overview and Outlook As we closed out the first quarter of 2016, a production freeze proposed by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) created some optimism abou...

Sprint , the smallest of the four U.S. national wireless carriers, is expected to publish its fiscal Q4 earnings on May 3. We expect the carrier’s results to be driven by its recent postpaid phone subscriber adds, impr...

Hard drive manufacturer Western Digital reported its fiscal third quarter 2016 earnings on April 28, reporting a 21% year-over-year decline in net revenues to $2.82 billion. (Fiscal years end with June.)  Both revenue a...

Both Exxon Mobil and Chevron had their worst results in well over a decade. But their share prices are defying gravity in part because of big oil's perceived stability.

The iShares North American Tech-Multimedia Networking ETF (IGN) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 553,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 96,000. Shares of IG...

In trading on Friday, the Gold Miners ETF (GDX) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 4.5% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Yamana Gold (AUY), up about 8.1% and shares of S...

In trading on Friday, precious metals shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 3.9%. Leading the group were shares of Asanko Gold (AKG), up about 9.9% and shares of HudBay Minerals (HBM) up about 9.1% on the ...

Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Biogen Inc (NASD: BIIB), where a total of 8,289 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 828,900 und...

There are no defined lanes for the rush-hour traffic that rumbles across the Place de La Concorde in Paris, instead there is a cacophony of angry car horns and impatient engines.

Just as the Doha talks – between OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers failed on 17 April – production outages around the planet clobbered those betting on a nosedive in futures prices to $35 per barrel as the exact opposi...

By Antonita Madonna

The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the components of the S&P 500 index, Red Hat (RHT) is now the #32 analyst pick, moving up by 1 spot.

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 — ...

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 — ...

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 — ...