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Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AAPL) mobile payment solution has been very popular with iPhone users even though it launched with one missing feature: rewards. That changed this week when Thanx, a loyalty and retention marketing company, announced that it is now compatible with Apple Pay. "One...

U.S. stocks rose on Thursday after government data showed the U.S. economy grew 3.5 percent in the third quarter, better than the 3.0 percent expected. Investors brushed off a poor reading on the number of Americans filing for jobless benefits, which rose last week in favor of GDP data; this...

Lots more earnings are on tap this week, from social media giants like Facebook and Twitter to petroleum supermajors Exxon and Chevron, from major pharmaceutical makers Merck and Pfizer to consumer goods giants like Altria and Avon Products. Here is a quick look at what analysts are expecting from...

Visa Inc (NYSE: V) shares have been under pressure recently, along with the broader market. Both Visa and Mastercard Inc have historically been "leading" stocks for the market, in terms of the timing of major turns up or down in price. If Visa is showing technical weakness on a...

Visa Inc (NYSE: V) continues to tread water below resistance, despite the positive market conditions. If Visa can’t participate now, what will happen when the market falters? Here is a recap of Benzinga's September 2 report on Visa: Visa was under pressure throughout August...

Contactless payments, even though they have been around for a long time, have not gained a lot of traction with the public. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) hopes to change that with its Apple Pay, NFC-based wireless payment system. In-Store Transactions Using the Near Field Communication (NFC)...

U.S. stocks declined as geopolitical concerns outweighed an improved economic read on second-quarter growth. Ukraine's President stated that Russian troops had crossed in to Ukraine territory and were fighting alongside Russian supported separatists. Markets initially traded lower on the...

U.S. stocks rose for the third time in four days bringing the Dow back into positive territory for the year. Investors appeared to brush up poor retail sales from Macy's while focusing on business inventories that rose in June. On the international front, Ukraine said it would not allow...

Five months ago, Thinknum was a bootstrapped, two-man startup. The company built an open Web platform for financial analysis and had already attracted the likes of Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) and JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM). Now, the company has announced that it has raised $1 million in a seed round...

U.S. stocks sold off after news reports began to surface that a Malaysian Airlines jet has crashed in Ukraine. While details have yet to be confirmed, a Ukraine minister claimed that the plane, which carried nearly 300 people, was shot down by rebels. Also not helping the market sentiment...

U.S. stocks were little moved with the news-flow light, as would be expected prior to a long-weekend. In fact, Thursday's trading session proved to be the second lowest volume day of 2014. The S&P 500 closed above 1,900 and came within striking distance of matching its intraday all time...

Morgan Stanley commented on the implications of Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) mobile payments strategy as an important stock catalyst for Apple and NXP Semiconductors NV (NASDAQ: NXPI), with Visa (NYSE: V), MasterCard (NYSE: MA), and American Express (NYSE: AXP) being beneficiaries of this plan....

With the Dow Jones Industrial Average finishing at a new closing high for a third straight day, you can bet on a lot of talk about stocks being frothy. But are they? Below are three different ways to spot stocks that may be frothy, and the top five identified by each marker. Some names recur...