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In early trading on Tuesday, shares of Caterpillar (CAT) topped the list of the day's best performing Dow Jones Industrial Average components, trading up 1.5%. Year to date, Caterpillar registers a 7.4% gain.

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In Q3 2016, Estee Lauder registered an 8% growth in retail sales in China, lower than its all the time high of 20%, but still strong according to the company. The growth in China was primarily due to a 70% growth in e- a...

The iShares Global Utilities ETF (JXI) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Tuesday, with over 234,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 45,000. Shares of JXI were off about 0.3% on...

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 — ...

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Western Digital Corp (NASD: WDC), where a total of 32,157 contracts have traded so far, representing approximat...

Despite rising concerns on the impact of the recent ban on diesel vehicles in some regions and dull rural sentiment, Mahindra turned in decent results for the March quarter

Financial markets have begun to price in a higher possibility of an interest rate hike in the US later this summer. And, the consequent rebound in the US dollar has once again shone the spotlight on China’s currency, t...

That was easy? CEO Ron Sargent and Staples have "mutually agreed" that it's time for a new boss.

HP (HPQ) has declared a cash dividend of $0.124 per share on the company's common stock. The dividend, the third in HP Inc.'s fiscal year 2016, is payable on July 6, 2016, to stockholders of record as of the close of bus...

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...

Bubble talk is brewing: Stocks are expensive; bonds are expensive; real estate is expensive; everything seems expensive. But what does the academic research have to say about bubbles? For example, how and why are they fo...

As per the new Sebi rules, no redemption requests of up to Rs2 lakh will be subject to restrictions; beyond that, the remaining money can be subject to any restriction imposed by an AMC

The forthcoming initial public offering (IPO) highlights the fact that BSE has turned out to be a poor investment

In trading on Tuesday, the Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 3.6% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Silvercorp Metals (SVM.CA), up about 8....

In trading on Tuesday, beverages & wineries shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 1.2%. Helping drag down the group were shares of Boston Beer Co (SAM), off about 3.5% and shares of Constellation Brands...

The best performing sector as of midday Tuesday is the Energy sector, up 0.5%. Within that group, Southwestern Energy Company (NYSE: SWN) and Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) are two large stocks leading the way, show...

In trading on Tuesday, precious metals shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 3.3%. Leading the group were shares of International Tower Hill Mines (THM), up about 11.1% and shares of Klondex Mines (KLDX) u...

Today's modern Fed is overly vigorous in desiring a return to "normal" rates at a time when US economic and world economic growth can not support higher rates and inflation does not warrant higher rates.

With incomes rising amid a better job market, recent gains in consumer spending may actually stick.

Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA), where a total of 19,139 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 1.9 million ...

In trading on Tuesday, shares of Huntington Bancshares Inc's 8.50% Series A Non-Cumulative Perpetual Convertible Preferred Stock (NASD: HBANP) were yielding above the 6% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized t...