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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – UnitedHealth Group’s first-quarter net income slid 8 percent as funding cuts to a key product and costs imposed by the health care overhaul dented the health insurer’s performance. The Minnetonka, Minn., company...

David Zeiler: While just about all healthcare stocks seem to be getting a boost from the Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare, one subgroup – the health insurers – figures to get an outsized benefit from the healthcare law. And their...

If you want to know what happened in 2014 with regard to gold and oil, it’s important to appreciate the inverse relationship between the U.S. dollar and commodities. The following chart is a good place to start: click to enlarge Whereas total returns...

By Sinead Carew (Reuters) - U.S. stocks closed lower on Thursday in a volatile session on uncertainty about U.S. monetary policy and global economic growth, while market heavyweight Caterpillar cut its sales forecast and healthcare investors fled for...

Personally, I’m optimistic for stocks — especially the right ones. Not everybody is. Here’s a piece from The Wall Street Journal that says we’re going down. It sums up the “logic” floating around (and especially after last Thursday). (My bolding.) ...