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According to Barron's, ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) shares have more room to rise. The split should allow both entities to pursue distinctive strategies, in turn maximizing returns in their respective businesses. The breakup will not

Shares of Research In Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) slid 2.20% in today's trading after Northwest & Ethical Investments, an investor, initiated a push for a shareholder vote to decide whether Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie should ret

On the call side, Avon Products calls are trading 6.5 times their average amount after one investor bet bullishly on the company. T. Rowe Price calls are at close to 6 times the average volume after being mentioned positively on J

Eqecat's estimate, which includes damages caused by the earthquake, subsequent tsunami and fires, is below that of competitor AIR Worldwide which estimates losses of $15 billion to $35 billion, not including tsunami-related losses

Worried investors have been selling insurance shares in re

The destruction sustained in last week's earthquake in Japan will cause insurers to lose between $12 billion to $25 billion, according to an estimate released Wednesday by the catastrophe risk modeling firm, Eqecat, making it one

Mylan Inc. (MYL) has trimmed a mid-morning slide to $22 and is near even, down 0.06%, after Moody's Investors Service today upgraded its corporate family rating to Ba2 from Ba3. The outlook is stable. Moody's cited the company's i

Hope you’re not tired of Angry Birds, because its creator, Rovio Mobile, has plans to keep legless birds flying around our heads for the foreseeable future. At least for the rest of the millennium. Rovio is looking for investor

The price of oil is trading up over $106 in Asian markets today, after closing at $104.42 per barrel on Friday. Oil is up 26% since February 15th.

Fighting in Libya between pro-Gaddafi and anti-Gaddafi rebels escalated over the weekend.

U.S. gasoline prices are up nearly 33 cents over the last two weeks, according to the latest Lundberg survey. That is the second biggest price jump in the history of the gasoline market, with the biggest occurring between August a

The report cites Linus Wilson, an assistant finance professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, who says that balances for Madoff's firm in its JPMorgan account created profits from 1986 to 2008.

JPMorgan Chase (JPM) shares are down 1.82% following a Bloomberg report that the bank made a $907 million pretax profit from deposits held by the bank for Bernard L. Madoff.

This is another signal that Russia is opening up its massive energy reserves to foreign investors, coming on the heels of BP's (NYSE:BP) $16 billion share-swap deal for three offshore Arctic licenses with Russian energy company Ro

Total's stake will rise to 19.4% in three years, and the french company will get a seat on Novatek's board of directors.

French energy giant Total SA (NYSE:TOT) said it will pay $4 billion for a stake in Russia's largest independent gas producer, Novatek, and is joining the company's huge Arctic natural gas project.