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One question I field all the time is, "Should I own preferred stocks?" and my answer is always the same: "Yes, yes and yes." But after that, things get tricky.

Banks have aggressively cut their home loan rates and once they begin fixing their bad loans, rates will drop further. Incremental business growth too could get slower as banks garner market share

Sensex, Nifty fell on concerns over Donald Trump's ability to follow through with his policies, but analysts say liquidity that has fuelled the rally in India will continue

Barring some sort of political or security-related disaster, there is only one way French nationalist Marine Le Pen can win the presidency of France.

Healthcare real estate investment trusts (REITs) are at the crossroads of some very powerful investing themes that make them a one-two punch of potential growth and extremely generous yield. Today, I want to show you a t...

Nike's scale gives it a long-term competitive advantage, which should help it win back market share.

Most investors still don't understand dividend stocks. Why? Because they spend way too much time obsessing over one figure--the dividend yield--and ignore stocks with payouts below some arbitrary number, say 2%, which is...

Spiffy CEO Scott Wingo discusses the vision behind his company, disrupting the on-demand economy, and his plans for redefining how people takes care of their cars.

First day of spring, the market showed its disbelief that reflation was at hand. Bank of America and its ilk dropped a snappy 5%. Even my robins arrived north prematurely, met by a 24-inch snowfall in the Hudson Valley. ...

Recently, Costco partnered with grocery delivery company Shipt to expand the test of its grocery delivery service. Costco already offers home delivery in some locations via Instacart, and its partnership with Shipt is an...

Let's face it: people make a lot of stupid mistakes.You see it every day: they turn on to the freeway without signaling.They fall for obvious scams.They throw money away on useless things. But here's the good news: It's ...

Falling hepatitis C revenue has dented giants such as AbbVie and Gilead but created a rare bargain in biotech Enanta

I think the ship has sailed on this business, but the stock is still pricing in huge improvements in profitability and market share. Pandora Media (P) is in the Danger Zone this week.

Shankara Building IPO received bids for 27,00,704 shares against the total issue size of 52,94,467 shares on first day of the issue

S&P 500 up 0.06%, Nasdaq Composite adds 0.22%, Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.15%

Since the fall of 2016, the Permian Basin in West Texas and eastern New Mexico has seen one multibillion-dollar deal after the next. The current number stands at more than $23 billion in upstream deals... but nobody expe...

Latest in series of education industry IPOs welcomed by investors

Will PPG mount a third and final bid for AkzoNobel or walk away? For some investors, it doesn't matter: they can win either way.

Hindustan Zinc Ltd to pay a special one-time interim dividend of 1,375% or Rs27.50 on an equity share of Rs2

Puerto Rico's federally appointed Financial Oversight and Management Board has proposed drastic austerity measures to resolve Puerto Rico's deep-rooted economic crisis -- but done little to nothing in the way of economic...

Whether China's most valuable company can keep getting bigger depends on whether it can sell advertising as effectively as Facebook. So far it is progressing well, but expectations are also rising fast.

Share pickers have dumped B&Q owner Kingfisher after murky trading forecast. What should savvy investors do now?