Новости за 23.12.2016

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Member Jay D. Hanson notified the audit regulator on Friday of his resignation from its Board.

The Federal Reserve has hiked interest rates for the second time in a decade and plans to raise rates three more times next year. With higher interest rates, investors may find small-cap biotechnology exchange traded funds that track companies banking on a breakthrough drug less appealing. While few development-stage companies fund their operations with debt…

U.S. oil prices closed at a 17-month high on Friday in quiet trade ahead of the Christmas and New Year holiday week, even though the gain was small, as the market waits to see how OPEC manages its planned output cuts with Libya expecting to boost production.

Terrible recent results and major changes in GNC's loyalty program have prompted an analyst to slash his price target.

Heavy exposure to the housing market means shareholders have to account for some unique challenges.

Rebounding along with rising crude oil prices, master limited partnerships and related exchange traded funds are once again looking like an attractive yield-generating alternative. The JPMorgan Alerian MLP Index ETN (NYSEArca: AMJ) and the ALPS Alerian MLP ETF (NYSEArca: AMLP), the two largest MLP-related exchange traded products, are now up 16.9% and 15.3% year-to-date, respectively,…

Following Donald Trump’s presidential election win, exchange traded fund investors have been selling off their emerging market exposure as the U.S. dollar strengthened and protectionist rhetoric scared off traders. Net redemptions from emerging market equity funds hit a five-week high in the latest week, with investors yanking $3.7 billion from emerging stock funds in the…

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Natural gas prices and commodity-related exchange traded funds jumped Friday as traders anticipated greater heating demand in the weeks ahead. On Friday, the United States Natural Gas Fund (NYSEArca: UNG) gained 3.3% and the iPath Bloomberg Natural Gas Subindex Total Return ETN (NYSEArca: GAZ) rose 5.0% as natural gas futures added 3.4% to $3.656 per…

As we close the book on what could become a defining year for the semiconductor market, here's how these 3 IoT stocks trounced the market in 2016.

FedEx's earnings growth is slowing down, and there's no quick fix to the company's current challenges.

Of the publicly traded fashion stocks, this is a list of some of the best clothing brands in the retail industry.

The social media giant's CTO is leaving, and with it hopes of a quick buyout. It can still happen when the market least expects it.

J&J's on again, off again pursuit of Actelion is back on.

Digging into why an analyst recently upgraded Goldcorp while downgrading Barrick Gold.

Volunteering and doing good works refills your emotional tank during this busy period, which can make it easier not to fill up in other ways.

Savvy dividend investors know the utility of adding some international holdings to their income portfolios, whether by way of individual stocks or exchange traded funds (ETFs). The explanation is straight forward: Ex-U.S. developed market dividend payers often feature larger yields than their U.S. counterparts, an assertion proven by comparing large- and mega-cap dividend stocks from…

These three biopharma stocks could see sales increase by a factor of two next year.

Having mostly dealt in fuel-cell solutions for forklifts, Plug Power is now charged up about bringing its hydrogen expertise to automobiles.

On the same day that the Federal Reserve raised the benchmark fed funds rate by 25 basis points, Bank of America followed suit by raising its own prime rate the same amount.

Heavy snow, freezing rain and wind gusts will make holiday travel treacherous in swaths of the northern United States.

Oil slipped below $55 a barrel on Friday as a stronger U.S. dollar weighed on commodities and as higher Libyan output threatened to counter some of the supply cuts planned by OPEC and other producers.

Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank have been hit with a combined penalty of more than $12 billion over the sale of U.S. toxic debt.

Even a successful, highly profitable business like Apple isn't risk-free.

The IRS doesn't always take the returns it receives at face value. If something looks suspicious on your tax return, you could be tagged for an audit.