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Hedge funds are cashing in on an unintended consequence of European financial regulations on investment research: Less information about some stocks.

The pound fell below $1.30 to its lowest level since Dec. 25. amid growing expectations of an interest-rate cut by the Bank of England followed disappointing economic data.

Selling in European government bonds narrowed the gap between U.S. and German bond yields, extending a recent move propelled by easing concerns about the eurozone economy.

It's no secret that the perpetual quest by states and localities for additional revenue has led to an expansion of legalized gambling. Once the sole province of Nevada and New Jersey, over the last 40 years casinos have ...

While Tesla's unit sales rose 4-5% in the U. S. overall in 2019, they actually fell--my modeling shows a decline of 4-5%--in the fourth quarter.

Bankruptcies have not only been concentrated in the exploration and production segment, but also included oilfield services, support transportation and midstream pipeline firms.

CFO sentiment can sometimes be a helpful indicator of looming market sell-offs.

Western Digital's (NASDAQ: WDC) total expenses have dropped gradually from around $18.7 billion in 2017 to about $17.32 billion in 2019. As a percentage of revenues, expenses have grown, going from 97.9% in 2017 to 104.6...

The grocery giant expects to decide in coming weeks whether to proceed with an initial public offering that could value it around $19 billion, as its backers look to tap into a strong stock market to cash out of an inves...

Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ: URBN) has achieved steady growth over 2015-2018 (fiscal year ending January), with the company's revenue increasing 15% and expenses following a similar upward trend to result in profits remaini...

For the third straight year, and for the fourth time in six years, palladium was the top-performing commodity.

Maybe Obama was right after all? Still, President Trump's trade war is at least protecting American blue collar workers at the expense of China's.

Europe & Sub-Saharan Africa is likely to be the fastest growing revenue segment for PepsiCo (NASDAQ: PEP) in the near term. While PepsiCo's total revenues increased at a CAGR of 1.5% from $62.8 billion in 2016 to $64.7 b...

Abbott spent $6.5 billion on selling, general & administrative (SG&A) expense in 2014, and the figure increased to $9.7 billion in 2018, driven by acquisitions, growth in sales, and the launch of new products. As a perce...

No, as per Trefis estimates IBM is expected to report a small decline of 0.8% y-o-y in FY 2020 and record revenue around $79.7 billion. For 2019 we estimate IBM's Top line to grow slightly by 0.9% y-o-y to around $80.3 b...

Buying shares of Facebook, Amazon.com, Netflix and Alphabet has continued to pay off for investors this year. The gains have pushed one exchange-traded product that tracks the stocks near the top of the fund leaderboard.

Tesla's CEO has a lot to be happy about in China. Here's one thing ...

Ritu Mehrotra, country manager, India, Sri Lanka and Maldives, talks about the journey so far, the trends and challenges for the Indian traveller and more.Millennials seek value in what they buy, and don't mind paying a ...

Shares of Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) have gained more than 15% since last November, primarily due to the Chinese government's diversification plan for Macau into a financial hub, the lifting of daily remittance limit, a...

SAP's Software Support segment is expected to contribute $13.3 billion to SAP's 2019 revenues, making up 42.1% of SAP's $31.5 billion in expected revenues for 2019. The Software Support segment's total revenue is expecte...

At the current asset mix with equity assumed to be 30%, your targeted return at best will be 9-9.5% before taxation; hence, you need to push a little to increase your returns over the long term.Any equity exposure should...

Too much equity may expose you to undue risk, while being too conservative and investing only in, say, FDs can mean that you are not able to build the corpus that you need.One must also keep in mind the volatility risk o...