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Emerging markets aren't a haven--but they look like a compelling alternative to the bigger concerns that still lie in developed markets.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling coalition won a comfortable majority of contested parliament seats this month, giving it dominance in both legislative chambers. Party over already. The capture of 70 seats,...

Campaign for Fair Finance (CFF) founder Dr Roger Gewolb has welcomed the intervention of the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) new chief executive Andrew Bailey as an investigation gets underway into peer-to-peer ...

Apple is scheduled to publish its fiscal Q3 results on Tuesday, July 26, reporting on another challenging quarter that is likely to see revenues and margins contract on a year-over-year basis amid sluggish iPhone and Mac...

Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Foot Locker, Inc. (NYSE: FL), where a total of 15,464 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 1.5 m...

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 19,734 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 2.0 millio...

Pandora‘s recently reported Q2 fiscal 2016 earnings turned out marginally better than expectations, with non-GAAP diluted loss per share 4 cents better than the consensus estimate. However, revenue at $343 million, fel...

In trading on Friday, shares of Fortis Inc.'s First Preference Shares, Series F (Toronto: FTS-PRF) were yielding above the 5% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $1.2252), with shares changing hands as lo...

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...

Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK) announced today that its Board of Directors approved a $0.03 increase of its quarterly cash dividend to $0.58 per common share. This marks the 49th consecutive annual dividend increase ...

The SPDR S&P International Dividend ETF (DWX) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 846,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 153,000. Shares of DWX were off about ...

In trading on Friday, the iShares U.S. Telecommunications ETF (IYZ) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 2.6% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of General Communications (GNCM...

Legendary investor Warren Buffett advises to be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. One way we can try to measure the level of fear in a given stock is through a technical analysis indi...

Legendary investor Warren Buffett advises to be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. One way we can try to measure the level of fear in a given stock is through a technical analysis indi...

China’s harsh response this month to an international arbitration tribunal rejection of its claims in the South China Sea doesn’t exactly make it an easy time to highlight the benefits of working with investors with ...

Much like the brew it purveys, shares of Boston Beer are positively hoppy in Friday trading. The stock is surging a whopping 17%, thanks in no small part to recently-released earnings results that were not nearly as bad ...

In trading on Friday, trucking shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 3.6%. Leading the group were shares of Swift Transportation (SWFT), up about 11.9%.

The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the components of the S&P 500 index, General Dynamics (GD) is now the #61 analyst pick, moving up by 5 spots.

By Thiago Barrozo

Despite making less money than at this time last year, Boston Beer Co. posted significant market gains today. Here's how.

Sprint is slated to publish its fiscal Q1 results on July 25. We expect the company’s results to be driven by operating cost reductions and its recent postpaid phone subscriber gains, although this could be partially o...

Legendary investor Warren Buffett advises to be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. One way we can try to measure the level of fear in a given stock is through a technical analysis indi...