International real estate investment and services firm Kennedy Wilson has announced that the company sold more than $35 million of properties through auction and conventional sales last month.
The top after-market NYSE losers on Tuesday are: Plantronics, Las Vegas Sands, USEC, St. Joe, Polypore International, Precision Drilling, Western Refining, GMX Resources, JinkoSolar Holding and Great Plains Energy.
Gold prices hit new all-time Dollar highs at the AM London Fix on Tuesday, but silver traded near a two-week low as world stock markets slipped and commodity prices fell hard.
The dollar rebounded from three-year lows and U.S. crude slid more than 1 percent on Monday on the back of news that a U.S.-led operation killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
Risk assets rallied on Monday after the death of terrorist Osama Bin Laden. The celebration, however, may be premature, according to Brad Bechtel of Faros Trading.
Final buyout bids for Warner Music Group are due on Monday and the company could be sold by the end of the week in a deal valued at over $3 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The Bank of America Merrill Lynch said in a report that there was strong possibility of silver hitting $80 an ounce, causing ripples in the silver stock and ETF markets.
Even as silver prices are hovering near their all-time record high, there are some investors who ardently believe prices will continue to go upward. And then, there are people who think it's realistically possible that silver will breach an unbelievable $100 an ounce!
Warren Buffett may be under fire from New York investment managers over a scandal involving one of his former lieutenants, but on his home turf his most loyal shareholders think he is doing just fine.
Former hedge fund manager Donald Longueuil has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and securities fraud charges arising from an insider trading scheme in which he obtained and traded on material, non-public information, Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said.
Gold continued its explosive rise, when measured in the falling US dollar currency, on Friday trading for $1,540 per ounce, marking a new record high yet again and set for its seventh successive weekly gain.
The companies whose shares are declining in pre-market trade on Friday are: Research In Motion, PDF Solutions, Deckers Outdoor, Manitowoc Co, Oncothyreon, Microsoft, Infinera, Jds Uniphase and Gap.
College education in the U.S. is a rip-off, it is no longer a safe investment for the future, and its quality has been so watered down that it doesn't any longer help you get the dream job.
Moreover, costly higher education will rather cripple the rest of your life by burdening you with a veritable student loan debt trap!
Blackstone Group LP plans to buy the top floors of the former New York Times building in Manhattan for $160 million, according to a report in the New York Times.
Billionaire hedge fund manager Philip Falcone recently gave investors more information about three U.S. government investigations into his Harbinger Capital Partners fund firm.
The take away from Bernanke's comments yesterday should allay any fears that the Federal Reserve will be lifting interest rates any time soon.
Billionaire hedge fund manager Philip Falcone recently gave investors a little more information about three government investigations into his Harbinger Capital Partners fund firm.
Gold Investing prices extended last night's strong gains on Thursday, hitting fresh all-time highs at $1534 per ounce as new US data showed inflation accelerating sharply.
U.S. stocks declined in early trade on Thursday after government reports showed that US economic activity slowed significantly in the first quarter and applications for jobless benefits unexpectedly increased.
US GDP growth in 2011 first quarter slowed to an annual rate of 1.8 percent, compared to a rate of 3.1 percent in fourth quarter 2010 and 3.7 percent in first quarter 2010.
FOMC statement from April 27, 2011
This week’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting should not interrupt the recent positive performance of the US financial markets.
