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“We are consistently reading the headlines of significant sized deals getting done and the mid-market is humming as well.” So came word from Matt Porzio, vice president of M&A strategy and product marketing at Intralinks Holdings Inc (NYSE: IL) who spoke with Benzinga. Q1 2015...

U.S. stocks rose ahead of next week's busy earnings schedule, but still finished lower for the week. On Tuesday, Yahoo! and Intel kick off earnings in the tech sector with eBay following on Wednesday. Investors will also see results from Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase in the...

Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-B) founder Warren Buffett’s annual letter to stockholders is considered one-part corporate guidance and one-part “investor’s almanac” by many on Wall Street – not just Berkshire shareholders. According to The Wall Street Journal, Buffett’s habit of including a...

There has been debate this year, as always, about whether a ‘Santa Claus rally’ would happen.  In fact, the seasonal anomaly in which abnormally positive returns take place in the market during the month of December has happened 80 percent of the time over the past 20 years. This year, some...

Late Sunday, Thomson Reuters announced that it would stop giving premium subscribers a two-second early glimpse at key data as regulators probe the subscription service. The New York Attorney General recently launched an investigation into the arrangements and Reuters has suspended the deal pending...

As reported by Reuters on Wednesday, Toyota (NASDAQ: TM) announced that it will most likely be unable to achieve its peak market share in the US that it had four years ago as the automaker shifts efforts from expansion to quality control. The company will most likely achieve a market share...

CNBC is reporting that Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) gives an elite group of traders a two-second head start on key economic data that is important enough to move markets. Sound like the company is the SEC’s next target? Probably not! The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index is a...

Concerns about third quarter earnings season have been well documented in recent weeks. Turns out those concerns were warranted as earnings warnings have been the rule, not the exception in recent days. According to recent data from Thomson Reuters, negative pre-announcements among S&P 500...

If small business is the “engine” of the U.S. economy, it's leaking oil and running on only three cylinders according to Wednesday's release of a closely followed loan activity report. Lending to small businesses fell in June to the lowest level since October 2011, continuing a slowdown in one of...

Managed healthcare providers Aetna (NYSE: AET) and Humana (NYSE: HUM) both missed second quarter earnings. Aetna earnings fell by 15 percent, blaming a smaller benefit from surplus money set aside to cover earlier patient claims. However, the company did raise its full year guidance. Humana,...

Hershey (NYSE: HSY), the iconic chocolate maker, is scheduled to report second-quarter 2012 results Thursday, July 26, before the U.S. markets open. Investors are hoping it can build on four-straight quarters of revenue increases. Expectations Analysts on average predict that Hershey will report...