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Executives from fund giants BlackRock Inc., Vanguard Group Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

So far this year, Exxon Mobil Corp.'sA shares are down 3.4 percent. On Monday, it was announced that the company along withA Eni SpA A andA Royal Dutch Shell Plc A had agreed to fund $986 million in costs owed by Kazakhstan's state energy producer, Kazmunaiga, for one of the world's largest oil fields, Kashagan, reported Bloomberg .

In this series, we look through the most recent Dividend Channel "DividendRank" report, and then we cherry pick only those companies that have experienced insider buying within the past six months.

Ratings firm Moody's is no fan of the unusually large junk-bond trade we highlighted on this blog a few weeks back.

This article is the first in a series on closed-end funds that pay a distribution to shareholders of greater than ten percent and trade at a ten percent discount to net asset value.

Barclays will divest its $6.1 billion investment in BlackRock , which comprises a 19.6 percent economic interest in the company.

Director of Blackrock Inc Bank Plc /eng/ Barclays sold 35,210,022 shares on 05/22/2012 at an average price of $171.26. BlackRock, Inc.

's stock had its "neutral" rating reaffirmed by research analysts at Sterne Agee in a report released on Friday.

According to GuruFocus Insider Data , these are the largest insider buys during the past week: Home Depot , Enterprise Products Partners L.P. , BlackRock Inc.

U.S. institutional tax-exempt assets of the 500 largest money managers declined 5.3% in 2011, the first slip after two years of rebounds from the global financial crisis, Pensions & Investments' latest annual money manager survey shows.

Insiders made noteworthy buys in five finance and industrial sector stocks this past week , and sold four others.

As the saying goes, there are many possible reasons for an insider to sell a stock, but only one reason to buy - they expect to make money.

U.S institutional tax-exempt assets of the 500 largest money managers declined 5% in 2011, the first slip after two years of rebounds from the global financial crisis, Pensions & Investments ' latest annual money manager survey shows.

CBS Corporation maintained its quarterly dividend of 10 cents per share. The dividend is payable on July 1, 2012, to shareholders of record as of June 11, 2012.

New York Thruway Authority bonds are slumping the most in at least a year as the operator of the longest U.S. toll road faces a potential downgrade and prepares to finance the biggest project in its 62-year history.

NEW YORK -- With rumors again circulating that activist investor Carl Icahn is amassing a big stake in Chesapeake Energy , it's important for investors to remember that a shoring up of the balance sheet will be the key focus for the oil and gas company in 2012.

Distortions in credit-default swaps prices fueled by JPMorgan Chase & Co. trader Bruno Iksil are pushing investors to exchange-traded funds to make bearish bets on junk bonds.

After closing 3.25 percent higher during regular trading, Chesapeake Energy Corp.

BlackRock Inc's Global Resources team increased its Chesapeake Energy Corp stake to 4 million shares from fewer than 1 million shares, a source familiar with the situation said on Thursday.

Laurence D. Fink, chairman and chief executive officer of BlackRock Inc., said the money manager's repurchase of stock from Barclays Plc demonstrates his belief that equities are cheap compared with bonds.