A building boom — and the constrained supply of materials due to mandated energy cuts — sent Chinese cement, metal and building-equipment stocks up Thursday. Meanwhile, Hong Kong and Japanese exporters benefited from improvin…
As the market takes a time out for Thanksgiving, we thought it would be a good time to reflect upon some recent good fortune. From corporate earnings to weekly jobless claims, here are six things investors should be thankful fo…
The feds appear to be trying to broaden the notion of insider trading to include the information-gathering of hedge funds as criminal activity. But this could be difficult to prove in court, because there’s no statuary definiti…
On Wednesday, the FBI arrested Don Chu, an expert on Asian markets for Primary Global Research, setting the tone for the SEC’s crackdown on insider trading. Chu was charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud and conspir…
Stocks fell sharply Tuesday as investors fled riskier assets following an exchange of artillery fire between North and South Korea. Better news on U.S. economic growth was no match for the new worries, on top of Euro-jitters.
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