Editor's Note: Welcome to Love It or Hate It, a regular dual-column feature that will capture the love-hate relationship America has with some of its biggest, most controversial companies. For past c

Editors Note: Welcome to Love It or Hate It, a regular dual-column feature that will capture the love-hate relationship America has with some of its biggest, most controversial companies. For past co

The holiday pricing wars have officially begun. Late Thursday, Walmart (WMT) announced it would cut the online price of 10 highly anticipated DVD releases to $10. Just hours later, Amazon (AMZN) and

Thanksgiving is all about family gathering around a table laden with food, right?But there aren’t any rules about where the table is placed. Or if there are rules, maybe it’s time to brea

Airline stocks gained altitude on Friday after UBS (UBS) lifted its rating for major carriers including US Airways (LCC) and Continental Airlines (CAL). The AMEX Airline Index (XAL) was up 2.5% in mi

Money never sleeps, they say, but it certainly slumbers. Hit with a loss of energy, stocks slipped a second successive session as sellers reclined in a La-Z-Boy (LZB) (-14.26%) before jumping into Be

Editor's Note: This is the third in a series on luxury travel bargains. Did you hear that the recession is over? Well, the travel industry hasn’t gotten the news. They’re still flying on

positioned itself as a “green” company -- never mind that it’s in the same business as Chevron.When Chevron learned that 60 Minutes planned a potentially damning report ab

Stocks gained again with the Dow now on a winning streak of eight straight, its best run since April of ‘08. The ‘e’ in Dell’s (DELL) logo, eerily echoing Enron’s,

The economic downturn has led many to boost their savings. Some economists predict the savings rate, the difference between earnings and expenditures, will rebound to 3% to 5% this year after a negat