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U.S. markets began the week on a negative note after markets sold off in the final two hours of trading on no major news catalyst. The S&P 500 fell through its 200-day moving average of 1,905, a key technical level for fundamental investors and traders. The last time the index broke its 200...

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...

Mastercard Inc (NYSE: MA) holds the lower edge of a pennant formation and now is on the way toward testing the upper edge. Will it manage to break out bullishly above the consolidation pattern? Mastercard shares traded down to the lower edge of a technical pennant formation as...

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 were higher on Monday as the S&P 500 traded above the 2,000 mark for the first time ever, creating a new historical intra-day high of 2001.94. The S&P 500's milestone came on a relatively quiet day for stocks. A light news-load isn't necessarily a bad thing for the...

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...

First, Sr. Pago brought mobile point of sale (mPOS) to Mexico. Now, with the help of MasterCard (NYSE: MA), it plans to bring banking to the ‘unbanked.’ The Sr. Pago Card System, consisting of a smartphone-based chip credit card reader and reloadable MasterCard debit...

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....

U.S. stocks declined as tensions continue to mount in Ukraine. Russia requested an emergency session with the United Nations Security Council over a recent operation conducted by Ukraine where at least seven people were killed in the town of Slavyansk. Ukraine's interim President Oleksandr...

On Thursday, MasterCard (NYSE: MA) reported its first quarter results. The payment-processor earned $0.73 per share, topping the consensus estimate of $0.72. Revenue of $2.17 billion beat analyst expectations by $30 million. MasterCard's net income for the quarter rose to $870 million, from $...

U.S. stocks were little moved to start off the month of May as investors and traders are cautious before April's nonfarm payrolls report are released on Friday. The consensus estimate for Friday's figure stands at 215,000 which would trump March's 192,000 number. “This is a really important...

U.S. stocks rose as investors cheered the latest move by the Federal Reserve who stacked on another $10 billion to its tapering effort. By doing so, the central bank has lowered its asset purchases to $45 billion per month. “Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in...

U.S. stocks finished higher as the Dow approached its all time high of 16,631.60. The index trading on Tuesday as high as 16,559.39. The S&P 500 index is also not that far away from its all time highs of 1,897.28. The Federal Open Market Committee began its two-day meeting in Washington....

The earnings crunch continues this week. Among the highlights will be scheduled quarterly reports from Exxon Mobil and Chevron, from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck, from Time Warner and Viacom, and also from Twitter. Early Thursday, Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) is expected to say that it had earnings...