The Traderszone Network

Local celebrities, athletes and models joined the brokers at BGC Partners for a good cause: raising millions for global charities.

Nick Colas on how stocks added to Dow Jones Industrial Average have fared in the past year.

eBay (EBAY) shares are higher after the company announced it will split with PayPal sometime next year. After the split the two will trade as entirely separate companies, bringing to fruition a plan very much like the one laid out by shareholder activist Carl Icahn 9 months ago.

Johnson & Johnson is buying the biopharmaceutical company Alios BioPharma Inc. for about $1.75 billion. Alios is a privately held company that focuses on developing therapies for viral diseases. The deal …

U.S. home prices in July increased at the slowest pace in 20 months, reflecting sluggish sales and a greater supply of houses for sale. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose …

There is almost nothing unique about October, at least not in an investable sense. It’s a mental trap, almost irresistible precisely because it’s so simple.

The move, which Carl C. Icahn had called for, will cleave eBay almost in half, separating it from PayPal, which it acquired 12 years ago and now generates almost half eBay’s revenue.