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Often when a stock trades too high (or too low) for an average investor to fathom, the company in question will engineer a split (or reverse-split) to push the security back to a palatable range. Exchange-traded products are no different.

Get Business Mobile Text Alerts John A. Paulson, the billionaire hedge-fund manager who chided The Hartford's CEO last week for failing to split the company in two, appealed directly to shareholders late Tuesday with a full-scale argument for dividing the historic company's life insurance from its property-casualty business.

A simple recipe for split pea soup from Freemans Restaurant on the Lower East Side.

Arch Capital Group Ltd. reports that net income available to common shareholders for the 2011 fourth quarter was $136.8 million, or $1.00 per share, compared to $227.7 million, or $1.51 per share, for the 2010 fourth quarter, and $410.5 million, or $2.97 per share for 2011, compared to $816.7 million, or $5.18 per share, for 2010.

NEW YORK -- Carver Bancorp, Inc. (the "Company") , the holding company for Carver Federal Savings Bank ("Carver" or the "Bank"), today announced financial results for the ...

National Journal’s National Security Insiders said the Pentagon should not offer bailouts to keep defense companies or capabilities afloat, despite defense-budget cuts and shrinking military markets.

The latest surge in Apple's stock is not due to speculation about its next revolutionary product, but rather the possibility of a dividend, or even a share split, traders said.

HOUSTON, TEXAS -- Halcon Resources Corporation (NASDAQ: HK), ("Halcon Resources" or "Company") today announced that a one-for-three (1:3) reverse stock split of Halcon Resources common ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Among more than 2,500 people in France with a history of heart disease, taking B vitamins or omega-3 fatty acid supplements did not reduce the risk of developing cancer in a new study. In fact, for a small group of women, fish oil was linked to higher cancer risk. "We had expected to find a benefit of the supplements on cancer risk," said Valentina Andreeva, the study ...

Samsung answered rumors that it might split off its LCD division. Representative James Chung wouldn't confirm or deny the talk to Reuters, saying only that the company was "internally reviewing various options." Nothing had been locked in, he explained....