Outsourcing group Quindell has made a further effort to calm investor nervousness, by pledging to slow the pace of its acquisitions. The insurance claims processor has bought about 15 companies since listing ...

There are signs of a return of risk appetite on European equity markets, with financial stocks in demand across the region. London's FTSE 100 index, heavily-weighted towards mining stocks, benefited from ...

China's banks have been dealt a further blow as falling share prices put on ice a number of potential new Hong Kong listings. Several smaller Chinese commercial lenders had been planning Hong Kong stock ...

A Guernsey investment company has become the latest group to head to the London Stock Exchange to raise money to buy a clutch of European wind and solar farms. Renewables Infrastructure said it planned ...

Angling for more yield from your portfolio? Who isn't in this low-rate environment? Sure, there's risk with stocks in a volatile market, but even if share prices bounce around, the income from dividend-paying ...

HD Supply, a former unit of Home Depot acquired by buyout groups at the height of the US housing bubble, has raised $957m from an initial public offering after pricing shares far below its expected range. ...

IPOs in the US have been on a roll this year, with companies on track to raise the most money by going public since the financial crisis. But recent market volatility, sparked partly by hints that the ...

The latest round of tech IPOs has featured multi-class stock structures that give company founders a lot of control. But big investors have become less tolerant of that setup, which disempowers other shareholders. ...

There are so many advantages to selling puts to buy stocks you want to own. It’s a safe and reliable way to bring in income, but some investors simply use the strategy to lower the cost basis of their ...

Fears arising from a tapering of stimulus in the U.S. may have resulted in a sell-off in equity and bond markets in June, but a recent survey shows institutional investors' confidence was high that month ...

In recent years, buy-and-hold has suffered its share of slings and arrows by those with novel theories. As an income investor, I bristle at the impertinence.

The future of Euronext is coming under fresh scrutiny as European antitrust authorities look set to rubber-stamp IntercontinentalExchange's $10bn cash and shares purchase of NYSE Euronext. Official approval, ...

The largest private healthcare provider in Abu Dhabi has floated on the London Stock Exchange, selling at least £221m of shares in an initial public offering that valued the group at £672m. Al Noor Hospitals ...

Belgium's postal service will float on the Brussels stock exchange with a valuation towards the top end of its range, making it Europe's second-largest initial public offering of the year and a lucrative ...

These companies are putting a troubled past behind them. The stocks are risky, but they offer big opportunities.

Every dividend-growth stock has a starting point for paying a dividend. Exceptional wealth isn't generated by the history of dividend growth; it's generated by accumulating the dividends that will be forthcoming. ...

The IPO for US telecommunications company Avaya, which first filed for a $1 billion public offering in 2011, seems to be back on track. After delaying its IPO last year, Avaya, which provides routers, ...

Brazil’s GDP growth has been disappointing, but one company remains bullish on the economy: cement producer Votorantim Cimentos. The Brazilian company today filed information relating to its upcoming IPO, ...

At last, electronic exchange Nasdaq has agreed to cough up $10 million dollars to settle SEC charges related to the bungling of Facebook’s May 2012 IPO. It was an ugly start to Facebook’s career as a public ...

Rupert Murdoch's newspaper- and book-publishing properties will take a big accounting hit before they are spun off in June

A torrent of good news and personal investment by Chief Executive Elon Musk are relentlessly squeezing Tesla's short sellers

Are you one of those investors shorting Tesla Motors? Best to stay in bed today. The Silicon Valley electric carmaker’s shares zoomed past $100 this morning for the first time as Tesla rides a wave of ...

Rising U.S. home prices have sparked a run-up in shares of Lennar Corp., KB Home and Toll Brothers Inc., and cleared the way for the first initial public offerings by home builders since 2004. Now, some ...

Financial headlines often go for the “wow” factor, trying to attract readers by making a bold or outlandish claim. Oftentimes, however, those bold claims miss the mark.

By Jason Napodano, CFA Today, I am initiating coverage of  Amarantus BioScience Holdings, Inc. (OTC:AMBS)  with a 'Neutral' rating and $0.25 price target. Yes, a 'Neutral' rating. Neutral based primarily ...

The U.S. dollar has been on a roll since talk of the Federal Reserve unwinding its aggressive monetary stimulus program gathered pace about a fortnight ago. Now, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke could give the ...

Yesterday¡rsquo;s Tableau IPO was the latest sign of the appetite investors have for new stocks right now.

Eight months ago, investors had essentially written off Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX). Now the stock is up 239% -- the latest evidence of why it pays to buy a good company after bad news.

A new study from the non-partisan Employee Benefit Research Institute doesn’t tread in the investing waters, but it nonetheless does a great job explaining why dividend-paying stocks could remain in demand ...

Following the DAX's rise to a new record high and the FTSE's rally to its highest level in over five years, Citigroup's Jonathan Stubbs told CNBC that European equities have "rarely" been so ...

Tomorrow will mark a year since Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) went public in one of the most hyped initial public offerings in market history. As we know now, the stock has not lived up to that hype.

The IPO for data visualization firm Tableau Software today lived up to the hype that has preceded it. Tableau opened trading at $47, compared to its IPO price of $31—and that’s even after the size of the ...

Stamps.com (NASDAQ:STMP) shareholders just saw their fortunes shoot up some 50%, as seen in a stock chart , on little more than an earnings surprise that made investors realize they’d underestimated the ...

“Well, we don’t have any plans right now to raise funding.” – Elon Musk, investor conference call, May 8, 2013. “Supercharger announcement pushed to next week. Something else this week.” – Elon Musk via ...

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) just topped $900 for the first time in its history. Will it become the first tech stock to reach $1,000 a share...or is it on the brink of an Apple-like decline?

Hong Kong’s stock market was number one in the world by value for initial public offerings between 2009 and 2010. In 2013, until this week, it was 13th—behind Iraq. But there is hope yet. Sinopec Engineering, ...

Hedge fund Jana Partners revealed stakes today in online daily deals company Groupon and online game developer Zynga, sending shares of those companies up. Jana is sometimes an activist investor that pushes ...

Hedge funds and other big investors are reporting their quarterly holdings to the Securities and Exchange Commission, offering a glimpse into what some of the big fish were buying and selling during the ...

Terra Nitrogen (NYSE: TNH) is one of three companies increasing their dividend by more than 10% this week. TNH¡#39;s recent history suggests, however, that it isn¡#39;t as reliable a dividend grower as ...

From the looks of trading in Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX), Jim Chanos is no David Einhorn. Chanos bashed Seagate as a value trap in a presentation at a major investment conference last Wednesday, but ...

In a surprising move, the US insurance arm of the Netherlands’ ING Groep priced its IPO today at $19.50, which is lower than the share range it had announced earlier. But it increased the size of the offering ...

Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) stock sank on news the postal meter maker would halve its long-cherished dividend, and the move ought to send yield junkies, who’ve been loading up on dividend-paying stocks, in ...

Apple¡rsquo;s (NASDAQ: AAPL) newfound generosity is helping the slumping stock finally turn a corner.

If it's springtime, that means it could be a good time not just to rotate the crops but the sectors as well. A strong but somewhat uneven rally has strategists looking for underperforming areas to overweight....

Cree (NASDAQ: CREE) has a bright future ahead after the company reported strong revenue growth last week. The LED lights manufacturer reported outstanding financials for the third quarter, with sales growing ...

This is part of a YCharts series analyzing dividend-payers across all 10 sectors of the S&P; 500. The first in our series showed readers how to find dividend stars and focused on healthcare stocks . Subsequent ...

This is part of a YCharts series analyzing dividend-payers across all 10 sectors of the S&P; 500. The first in our series showed readers how to find dividend stars and focused on healthcare stocks . Subsequent ...

Inrix, a provider of road traffic and other data, will likely go public later this year and could raise up to $100 million. The IPO from the Microsoft spinoff is highly anticipated and will showcase the ...