Caterpillar, Coca-Cola, IBM, McDonald's and ExxonMobil are 2013 dogs of benchmark average.

Idenix Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: IDIX) was the biggest gainer of all listed stocks on Friday with a rally of 40%. Its trading volume of almost 9.2 million shares was almost eight-times the normal volume. ...

Powerful rally in Container Store illustrates how 2013 has been a banner year for IPOs.

It's isn't easy nor necessarily advisable, but you can get a piece of Twitter early.

Source: InsiderScore.com On Oct. 24, Biglari Capital sent a letter to James Bradford, chairman of Cracker Barrel, confirming that debt financing is needed for a proposed special dividend. The letter urged the company to pay "a significant special dividend" of $20 per share, adding that it believes "the board is certainly …

Twitter's initial public offering, scheduled for Wednesday, looks to be one hot deal. San Francisco–based Twitter, a microblogging service with 232 million users worldwide, also has an optimistic chief executive. "We've only scratched the surface of everything Twitter can become," CEO Richard Costolo says in a 37-minute …

A household name in insurance, thanks in large measure to its charmingly frenetic spokesduck, Aflac last Tuesday enhanced its quarterly common dividend for the 31st year in a row. Aflac will pay a new quarterly dividend of 37 cents a share, up 5.7% from 35 cents. Aflac has paid uninterrupted dividends since 1973. Also …

November 1, 2013: U.S. markets opened higher Friday morning and got a bit more of a bump after PMI data from the Institute for Supply Management came in better than expected following the worst PMI reading ...

A drop in the Barrick Gold share price on Friday threatened to leave banks underwriting a $3bn fundraising sitting on losses or excess stock, as shares slipped below the proposed placing place of $18.35. ...

Shares of Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX) are in free-fall today following yesterday's earnings-related plunge. This time its a downgrade that's driving Vertex's stock lower as Bernstein analyst Geoffrey Porges and team cut its shares to Marketperform from Outperform. While critics will suggest that our downgrade is a timing …

Qunar Cayman Islands Ltd. (NASDAQ: QUNR) is the most popular search-based commerce platform for China’s travel industry in the Middle Kingdom. The company held its initial public offering (IPO) on Friday, ...

The retailer has a lot of room for growth but only losses for the past five years

Tech company reportedly has enough demand to sell all its shares.

We are nearing the end of earnings season, and stocks have challenged new all-time highs. Now investors are starting to think about 2014, and the notion of which stocks to buy and which ones to sell has ...

58.com, China's answer to Craigslist, surged nearly 42 per cent to $24.12 in its debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, in a sign that sentiment towards US-listed Chinese companies could be ...

Today, Bloomberg’s Sarah Frier and Serena Saitto report that Twitter’s highly anticipated initial public offering is oversubscribed, indicating booming interest for its shares as the firm looks to become ...

You have heard of robbing Peter to pay Paul, but how about diluting equity to wipe out debt? Barrick Gold Corp. (NYSE: ABX) was already lower after earnings by 5.4%, and it has taken on a new twist. Now ...

Investors moved cautiously Thursday as they considered the prospect of stimulus withdrawal from Federal Reserve by as early as January.

October 31, 2013: U.S. markets opened lower Thursday morning as Eurozone unemployment rose more than expected and new jobless claims in the U.S. came in slightly better than expected. It appears that investors ...

Shares of Facebook (FB) are up 89 cents, or 1.8%, at $49.90, and hit a high of $52, staging a nice rebound from a 3% sell-off earlier, which followed a whiplash reversal last night, as Facebook stock first soared 16%, then gave up all those gains. The Q3 report yesterday afternoon was better than expected, but remarks …

ExxonMobil should be considered the plum of the energy industry: It is yielding better-than-expected profits even as oil prices moderate. But shares of Exxon (XOM) have performed poorly in the past year, down more than 2% during a period when stocks have been surging. Exxon has underperformed competitors including Royal …

A Chinese firm often referred to as the Craigslist of China, 58.com Inc. (NYSE: WUBA) sold 11 million American Depositary Shares (ADS) in its initial public offering Thursday morning at an IPO price of ...

Halloween is as good time as any to pontificate on spooky things that can happen to the money you've invested in the stock market. Corporate earnings are decent, though economic growth is not terribly satisfying, and the global equity strategists at Credit Suisse are telling clients to expect U.S. markets to lag the rest …

Weight Watchers (WTW) is supposed to get its customers to slim down, not its stock price. But Weight Watchers' stock has plunged today after the weight-management company beat third-quarter earnings estimates but suspended its dividend. MarketWatch has the details: Weight Watchers reported a profit of $60.3 million, …

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) was among the most recent additions to the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). It is obviously a systemic measurement of credit card use globally, but it is now also the most important ...

Here are some things going on this morning in your world of tech: Shares of Facebook (FB) are down 97 cents, or 2%, at $48.04, more than reversing an initial 16% gain last night following a better-than-expected Q3 report. The company's conference call raised the concern Facebook will temper the rate at which it boosts …

58.com , the online classifieds marketplace often referred to as the "Craigslist of China," will hold its initial public offering of 11 million American Depository Shares (ADS) at $17 each on ...

History shows that years following sub-2% GDP growth tend to be good for stocks, but near-term exuberance, with investors focusing again on momentum stocks, could signal a pause after the big rally from ...

Earnings season is in the thick of things, and stocks finally showed that they could pull back after hitting new highs each day. Investors and traders alike have to be contemplating which stocks to buy ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up more than 19% so far this on the year. The DJIA, an index of 30 stocks from some of the country’s largest companies, is a widely followed indicator of the stock market’s ...

The past year has been almost as good for tech stocks as it's been for the broader stock market. Indeed, Google (GOOG), hardly an original choice, has gained 50% over the past year, more than doubling the gains of the Nasdaq. A piece by StreetAuthority's David Sterman argues that two stocks—Broadcom (BRCM) and EMC (EMC)—are …

Stocks rise and fall for many reasons, many of which seem very counterintuitive. So what are investors supposed to take out of Wednesday’s stock market sell-off? Hopefully, not much, but there is a lesson ...

After markets closed on Tuesday evening, payment services giant Western Union Co. (NYSE: WU) reported third-quarter results that met the consensus estimate for revenues and beat the estimate on earnings ...

Here are some things going on this morning in your world of tech: Shares of Facebook (FB) are up 42cents, or 0.8%, at $49.82, as the company heads towards its Q3 report this evening. Last night Rich Greenfield of BTIG Research raised his rating on the shares to Buy from Neutral, and set a $68 price target. Greenfield, …

It has been trading over the counter since it emerged from bankruptcy Sept. 3.

The initial public offering of Blackstone Group's shopping centre unit marks the first in a series of closely watched property disposals by the private equity group since the financial downturn. Brixmor ...

When two of the best small-cap experts I know are recommending the same stock, I pay close attention.

Investors are having to deal with seeing stocks hit new highs almost daily now. With a temporary deal in Washington, D.C., and with earnings coming on strong, investors are caught trying to decide which ...

South Korea's initial public offering market is showing signs of a revival from its two-year slump, after the country's stock market recovery has led to a spate of listings being heavily oversubscribed. ...

Susquehanna Bancshares (SUSQ: Nasdaq) By Sterne, Agee & Leach ($11.80, Oct. 29, 2013) We are upgrading Susquehanna Bancshares to Buy from Neutral. Our price target is $13.50. After reporting disappointing ...

Average investors: Here's some advice on Twitter's much-anticipated IPO

October 29, 2013: U.S. markets opened higher Tuesday morning following the report on PPI which showed inflation remaining very low and indicating that the FOMC meeting which began today will conclude with ...

As retargeting startup Criteo is poised to IPO, one company flying under the radar but, by the looks of it, that is also doing well in the retargeting space is AdRoll. It's now launched in Europe, or perhaps ...

When it comes to market data, what's a "brief disruption"? Today's answer, I guess, is "nearly an hour." Nasdaq OMX Group put out a notice about a "brief disruption" in one ...

International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) has just lived up to its promise of endless share buybacks with a greatly expanded share buyback plan. The goal is to keep buying up the stock to shrink ...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has not gotten the warm reception from Wall Street and investors that the fan boys may have hoped for after its quarterly earnings report. The long and short of the matter is ...

On the afternoon of October 24, short-seller Muddy Waters said it was starting coverage of Chinese mobile Internet services firm NQ Mobile Inc. (NYSE: NQ) with a Sell rating and a price target of zero. ...

It's time to link up with LinkedIn. Not in any permanent, serious I-love-you kind of way, but in a short-term big-date-to-the-prom way in anticipation of the 109% year-to-date rally is a sign of a good ...