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If you are a shareholder in either Amazon (AMZN) or Whole Foods Market (WFM), their combination ought to please you. Both stocks rose on the merger news while the rest of the grocery industry dropped. But in the long run...

Emerging-market currencies have benefited from positive economic surprises this year. Their luck may not have much room left to run.

Is the drop in inflation starting to rattle Federal Reserve policy makers? Their words suggest as much.

Equity allocations among individual investors rose to their highest level in more than a decade last month. The June AAII Asset Allocation Survey also shows fixed-income holdings at a multi-year low.

Investors started to lose patience with Tesla this week after another unkept promise: the jolt from Volvo that all its cars would be electric or hybrid by 2019.

Recently, Best Buy announced that it is expanding space in 700 of its stores to better showcase Amazon's Echo and Google Home devices and their interaction with smart home technology.

Late last week, Wells Fargo broke with its tradition of announcing a vague capital return plan at the end of the Fed's annual stress test cycle by clearly spelling out how much cash it wants to return to investors over t...

Late last week, U.S. Bancorp announced a capital return plan for 2017 that was largely similar to what it detailed last year, with the bank looking to return $4.6 billion to shareholders over the next twelve months - mar...

With the market for storage products booming, Samsung Electronics is doubling down on its semiconductor-focused capital investments, announcing plans to invest an additional 14.4 trillion won (about $12.5 billion) by 202...

Sell Exxon Mobil and buy Stryker. Why? Companies that have had net income sliding downwards for two years are called Earnings Sliders. The companies are bad investments for the two years after they qualify, but are great...

National Insurance chairman Sanath Kumar says the insurer is waiting for the government approval to come out with the IPO which may happen by the end of the current fiscal

Proposed major cross-border deal between U.S. and U.K. payments leaders propels industry into spotlight.

Volvo plans to abandon the combustion engine and switch to only electric and hybrid models in 2019. How will this move impact oil markets and what does it mean for electric car maker Tesla? Plus, why might Volvo's strate...

Can the U.S. Marijuana Market Continue to Expand? One of the hottest. The post U.S. Marijuana Market Comes to Nevada, Is the Rest of the Union Next? appeared first on Profit Confidential.

The government debt securities sees robust response from foreign investors, attracting bids worth $4.6 billion as against$3.2 billion on offer

Salasar Techno IPO comprises 33.21 lakh equity shares of face value of Rs10 each fully paid for cash at a price of Rs108 per equity share aggregating Rs35.86 crore

Prices for standard gold (99.5 purity) eased by Rs45 to end at Rs28,090 per 10 grams from Tuesday's closing level of Rs28,135

Pakistan's rupee plunged the most in 9 years, after State Bank of Pakistan was said to have devalued the currency as South Asia's second largest economy showed signs of stress

The acquisition would create a global payments processing company at a time when fintech upstarts like Stripe and Square are increasingly edging into the space.

As Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin get set for their first face-to-face meeting, investors are left to ponder how little things change in Russia

Excessive, opaque pay packages for company bigwigs are a perennial problem for shareholders. A few U.K. companies are embracing a new approach: Scrap targets and make bosses long-term shareholders. U.S. boards should tak...

Two New York investors have teamed up to overturn the "merger of equals" planned between chemical companies Huntsman and Clariant.