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Shares gain more than 3% on higher interest margins, gains in trading activity.

Prices could test the declining 50-day simple moving average line very soon.

Let's check out the charts and indicators.

Let's see if a strengthening phase is coming.

What is a stop-limit order, when should you use it during trading and what are the risks involved?

Getting ahead in an investment bank isn't easy by any stretch of the imagination. TheStreet talks with Goldman Sachs executive Sheila Patel on how she has successfully risen the ranks at the firm.

A decade ago, amid an economic boom in "emerging markets" like Brazil, Russia, India and China, the Teacher Retirement System of Texas decided to plow nearly 10% of all savings into stocks from the countries. Now, the teachers are reeling from the mistake, with subpar returns and outsize risks that could have been easily avoided had the fund just stuck with large U.S. stocks.

JPMorgan's new online-trading app will offer 100 free trades per year, and $2.95 per trade after that, according to a report on CNBC.com. Shares of TD Ameritrade, E*Trade and Charles Schwab fell on the news of the new competitor.

One of Wall Street's best experts puts four bank players under the spotlight.

Both big bank and small bank stocks have treaded water for most of 2018 despite a strong first half for earnings. But, that could be about to change if mergers descend on the sector.