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The DJIA ended last week up 10% year-to-date despite these three components being down more than 5%. Here's how to buy and sell them.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much could the right picture be worth to your portfolio? That's why we provide our clients with a much more powerful and insightful picture: a graph of their asset allocation o...

As the Trump Administration considers candidates for Secretary of State, three potential picks have ties to the energy industry: ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, Retired General David Petraeus and former New York City major...

Sears has had many sales so far this year. But the biggest sale of the year seems to be in its stock. The company's shares have been down close to 40 percent so far this year. That's in sharp contrast to the shares of ot...

The odds of AT&T's mega-merger with Time Warner going through appear to be more favorable, amid positive signals from the incoming U.S. presidential administration and increasing possibility that the deal would be able t...

As it focuses on local initiatives, Alphabet's (NASDAQ:GOOG, GOOGL) subsidiary Google is generating revenues in India that are growing significantly. The company reported a 44% increase in annual revenues in India for th...

Johnson Controls International (JCI) approved a quarterly cash dividend payment of $0.25 per share payable on Jan. 6, 2017, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on Dec. 14, 2016. Aetna (AET) declared a q...

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Ophthotech Corp (NASD: OPHT), where a total of 5,473 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 5...

In afternoon trading on Monday, Utilities stocks are the worst performing sector, showing a 0.1% loss. Within that group, Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE) and CenterPoint Energy, Inc (NYSE: CNP) are two large stocks that are la...

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Apple Inc (NASD: AAPL), where a total volume of 262,961 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contrac...

Here's why the unsurprising 'no' vote in Italy isn't causing the volatility everyone expected a month ago.

The PowerShares DWA Utilities Momentum Portfolio ETF (PUI) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Monday, with over 817,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 47,000. Shares of PUI wer...

In trading on Monday, the SPDR S&P Metals and Mining ETF (XME) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 3.5% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of AK Steel Holding (AKS), up about ...

In trading on Monday, oil & gas exploration & production shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 3.3%. Leading the group were shares of Vanguard Natural Resources (VNR), up about 41.5% and shares of Memorial...

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...

In trading on Monday, shares of Toronto Dominion Bank's Non-Cumulative 5-Year Rate Reset Preferred Shares, Series S (Toronto: TD-PRS) were yielding above the 3.5% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $0.84...

The French Grand Prix, one of the seven races to feature in the inaugural Formula One season in 1950, is set to return to the 2018 calendar after a 10-year absence.

Recently, Starbucks' Howard Schultz announced that he would step down as the CEO (Chief Executive Officer) and hand over the reins of the company to Kevin Johnson, the existing COO (Chief Operating Officer). While Schult...

The directors of a company tend to have a unique inside view into the business, so when directors make major buys, investors are wise to take notice. Presumably the only reason a director of a company would choose to tak...

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Alphabet Inc (NASD: GOOGL), where a total volume of 18,185 contracts has been traded thus far today, a cont...

The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the 30 stocks making up the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Apple (AAPL) is the #2 analyst pick. Apple Inc also comes in above the media...

Goldman Sachs, Nomura, Morgan Stanley, Tata AIA Life Insurance, Kotak Mutual Fund were among the investors who were allotted shares in the anchor allotment