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In a report published Monday, Deutsche Bank strategist David Bianco offered investors 10 key themes heading into the summer months. "S&P reached a new high of 2130 last Thursday on an 18 trailing PE, the highest since 2010 despite anemic EPS growth expected this year," Bianco wrote. "Both EPS...

A Wall Street Journal/NBC New Poll found that U.S. voters will be more concerned about national security than ever before during next year's Presidential race. Twenty-one percent of the participants considered national security and terrorism as a top priority, making it the second most important...

Internet companies and social media platforms are caught between a demand for more online privacy and a responsibility to fight against terrorism by monitoring online conversations and reporting them to the government. Many believe that the advent of social media has been a major proponent for...

On Tuesday, the United States government announced that it will create a new agency to monitor cybersecurity threats. The Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC) will serve as an intelligence center that "connects the dots" between various cyber threats, according to an...

Investors may want to watch cybersecurity stocks following Monday's hack of the U.S. Central Command Twitter Inc account, possibly by members or sympathizers of the ISIS militant group. "U.S. officials said that the U.S. Central Command Twitter account and its YouTube account were...

The average price of gasoline in the United States on January 1, 2014, was $3.29 per gallon. December 31, 2014, it was $2.24 or more than $1 per gallon less than at the beginning of the year. When gasoline price website, GasBuddy.com, issued its 2014 Fuel Price Outlook, it said the year “...

GasBuddy.com chief oil analyst Tom Kloza told Benzinga Monday afternoon, "I believe that in the next 24 hours, you’ll see the lowest national price point for regular unleaded of 2014." According to Kloza, the lowest U.S. average price for regular unleaded gasoline so...

Brent crude oil hovered near last week’s two-year low and traded at $96.38 at 5:50 GMT. The commodity has been under pressure recently as a global supply glut continued to grow while some of the world’s largest consumers struggled to kick start their economies. Over the weekend,...

President Barack Obama made a big announcement Wednesday night. In a change to previous policy, he laid out a plan to "degrade and destroy" the Islamic State, also known as ISIL, by expanding the air campaign in Syria (previously limited to Iraq), where the terror group has its base...

It is no surprise to anyone that the world is a dangerous place, and recently several hot spots have experienced escalations. The U.S. appears to be determined to take out terrorist group ISIS in the Middle East after the beheading of an American journalist. The war in Syria continues with no...

Brent crude oil was steady just below $114 as worries about a supply interruption in Iraq faded. The commodity traded at $113.78 at 8:50 GMT as investors evaluated whether or not the Middle Eastern nation's ongoing conflict would escalate further and tighten global supplies. Sunni insurgents...

Brent crude oil eased back towards $113 on Tuesday as worries about a supply interruption in Iraq subsided. The commodity traded at $113.95 at 6:42 GMT as geopolitical tension around the world looked to be easing. Clashes between fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, or ISIS,...

Brent crude oil continued to climb as the week began and traded at $115.20 at 5:22 GMT on Monday morning, near a nine month high. The commodity was supported by the worsening crisis in Iraq, where the nation's oil supplies looked to be under direct threat. The conflict in Iraq seemed to be...