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The increase in electronic trading platforms in fixed income is being driven by fundamental market changes.

Multibillion-dollar bubbles like Fullshare may end up fitting a pattern: stocks with small floats that get added to major benchmarks and then plunge.

He won the Formula One world title last weekend, but Nico Rosberg shocked the sporting world Friday by announcing his retirement.

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...

Within hours of being named the incoming Treasury Secretary, former mortgage trader Steven Mnuchin stated on television that he'd like to introduce bonds with longer maturities--which everyone takes to mean 50 and 100 ye...

Heard on the Street is conducting an experiment to see how retailers' claim that low inventory will mean less discounting is playing out.

Semiconductor stocks are vulnerable after big run-up, but strong fundamentals remain.

As it continues to face a decline in sales every month for the past several months, Gap Inc seems to be struggling to turnaround. While the decline in October sales was primarily due to the negative impact of a fire in o...

The Board of Directors of Eastman Chemical (NYSE:EMN) has increased the quarterly cash dividend on the company's common stock by 11 percent from $0.46 to $0.51 per share. The dividend is payable January 3, 2017 to stockh...

As the saying goes, there are many possible reasons for an insider to sell a stock, but only one reason to buy -- they expect to make money. So let's look at two noteworthy recent insider buys. On Tuesday, Edwards Lifesc...

In trading on Friday, the Gold Miners ETF (GDX) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 3.1% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Detour Gold (DGC.CA), up about 9.4% and shares o...

Finding the best ETFs is an increasingly difficult task in a world with so many to choose from. How can you pick with so many choices available? Don't Trust ETF Labels There are at least 80 different All Cap Blend ETFs a...

I recently warned investors about the dangers of Snow Capital Small Cap Value Fund. Despite Small Cap Value receiving a Dangerous rating in my4Q16 Investment Style Ratings, and containing many Dangerous-or-worse rated fu...

The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the components of the S&P 500 index, J.B. Hunt Transport Services (JBHT) is now the #142 analyst pick, moving up by 3 spots. This rank...

Oil prices fell 1.5% to steady at around $53 a barrel after the biggest weekly rally since 2009 following Opec's decision this week to cut crude output

Unemployment hits nine-year low but modest wage growth shows there is still some slack in labor market.

Looking at units outstanding versus one week prior within the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, the biggest outflow was seen in the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish Fund (UUP), where 1,600,000 units were des...

Comparing units outstanding versus one week ago at the coverage universe of ETFs at ETF Channel, the biggest inflow was seen in the iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF (GOVT), which added 8,600,000 units, or a 8.7% increase w...

Formula One fans and pundits were left reeling on Friday after newly-crowned world champion Nico Rosberg announced his retirement from the sport with immediate effect.

Bargain hunters are wise to pay careful attention to insider buying, because although there are many various reasons for an insider to sell a stock, presumably the only reason they would use their hard-earned dollars to ...

In early trading on Friday, shares of eBay (EBAY) topped the list of the day's best performing components of the S&P 500 index, trading up 4.0%. Year to date, eBay registers a 3.6% gain. And the worst performing S&P 500 ...

In early trading on Friday, shares of eBay (EBAY) topped the list of the day's best performing components of the Nasdaq 100 index, trading up 4.1%. Year to date, eBay registers a 3.7% gain. And the worst performing Nasda...