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Many pension funds re-balance their portfolio allocations on a monthly or quarterly basis. They attempt to keep the ratio of equities to fixed income at a predetermined target level. Portfolio Re-Balancing (source Getty ...

Live updates of sales figures during the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. annual November 11 Singles' Day online shopping event in Shenzhen, China this year. (Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg) This year will be remembered as...

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...

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Fortinet Inc (NASD: FTNT), where a total of 12,760 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 1.3...

Risk aversion is once again the mantra as Indian markets have fallen in tandem with other emerging markets despite an undertone of investor optimism at the beginning of 2016

The chairman and managing director of Dewan Housing Finance Corp on demonetisation, IPOs in the housing finance sector and FDI inflows

In trading on Thursday, shares of Gibson Energy Inc (Toronto: GEI) were yielding above the 7% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $1.32), with the stock changing hands as low as $18.85 on the day. Dividen...

Bruce Pile has been recommending Bear State Financial (BSF) to his friends and family this holiday season. He has been so emphatic that I asked him to do a deep dive into this stock for us. Here is why BSF is Bruce Pile'...

Looking at the sectors faring best as of midday Thursday, shares of Utilities companies are outperforming other sectors, up 1.4%. Within the sector, Entergy Corp (NYSE: ETR) and Exelon Corp (NYSE: EXC) are two large stoc...

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in NVIDIA Corp (NASD: NVDA), where a total volume of 260,523 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contr...

Procter & Gamble is one of the largest consumer products company in the world. It might also be the best bargain among the giants of the consumer industry. Recently, P&G outperformed its peers in the September quarter re...

There's an old saying on Wall Street about insider buying: there are many possible reasons to sell a stock, but only one reason to buy. Back on December 21, Navistar International Corp.'s Director, Stephen R. D'arcy, inv...

I've asked Marketocracy's managers to tell me what investment strategies and stocks they are talking about with their friends and family at this year's holiday gatherings. Here's what Chris Rees is recommending.

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...

I've asked Marketocracy's managers to tell me what investment strategies and stocks they are talking about with their friends and family at this year's holiday gatherings. Here's what Todd Hagopian is recommending.

Here are some of Ahead of the Tape's best and worst calls in 2016.

Lakshmi Vilas Bank said the floor price is Rs141.15 per equity share and it may offer a discount of not more than 5% on the floor price calculated on the QIP

Investors in Nokia Corp (NYSE: NOK) saw new options become available today, for the February 2017 expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the NOK options chain for the new Febr...

Investors in Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (NYSE: TEVA) saw new options become available today, for the February 2017 expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the TEVA opti...

Investors in Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN) saw new options become available today, for the February 2017 expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the TSN options chain for the n...

Investors in Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) saw new options become available today, for the February 2017 expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the HUM options chain for the new Feb...