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Williams shareholders face a threat and an opportunity in an upcoming vote on their deal with Energy Transfer Equity.

Looking at the sectors faring worst as of midday Wednesday, shares of Energy companies are underperforming other sectors, showing a 0.4% loss. Within that group, Southwestern Energy Company (NYSE: SWN) and Range Resource...

UnitedHealth’s Optum division has three primary businesses – OptumHealth, OptumInsight and OptumRx. OptumRx specializes in pharmacy care services, catering to more than 66 million people in the U.S. through its netwo...

Salesforce announced last week that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire enterprise cloud commerce provider Demandware (NYSE: DWRE). The deal, worth $2.8 billion, is expected to close by the end of July....

Recently The Coca-Cola Company announced that together with Coca-Cola FEMSA, it had entered into an agreement to acquire Unilever’s AdeS soy-based beverage business. The brand, which is currently available in Latin Ame...

E-commerce in India is largely dominated by a pair of homegrown internet giants in Flipkart and Snapdeal, but Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos is doubling down on his effort to make the U.S.-based tech giant a major player in the...

Is there a disconnect between expectations of another rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India and the inflation outlook?

Barring a large selloff, or economic recession, the evidence suggests we are in the early stages of a new bull market for commodities. Over the past few years, nearly every major global commodity in the world has been in...

REITs (real estate investment trusts) are finally starting to get the respect they deserve. As a result, a cool $100 billion is gearing up to chase these soon-to-be-hot issues!

Rosneft earnings get killed, but the Russian oil giant still has plenty of cash on hand.

Looking at units outstanding versus one week prior within the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, the biggest outflow was seen in the SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF (XOP), where 6,500,000 units were...

Oil has surged more than 90% from a 12-year low in February amid unplanned disruptions and a steady slide in US output

In early trading on Wednesday, shares of Tesla Motors (TSLA) topped the list of the day's best performing components of the Nasdaq 100 index, trading up 3.5%. Year to date, Tesla Motors registers a 0.2% gain.

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, on 6/10/16, Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc (NYSE: DPS), Best Buy Inc (NYSE: BBY), and SEI Investments Company (NASD: SEIC) will all trade ex-dividend for their...

Once concluded and priced, Samvardhana Motherson's would be the first high-yield bond issuance from India after a gap of more than a year

One drawback of a perpetual SIP is that performances of equity funds keep changing

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The transmission of lower policy rates remains as important as further rate cuts (if not more so) in supporting investment and thus growth momentum

Its exposure to government-owned banks and oil and gas companies hurt its performance

Krishi Kalyan Cess takes the tally of taxes to four on restaurant bills

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