Frank Stronach, chairman and founder of Magna International (MGA), launched his empire by making 300,000 sun visor brackets for General Motors. The rest, as they say, is history.Nine years after the

When it comes to global manufacturing, Mexico is quickly emerging as the “new” China.According to corporate consultant AlixPartners, Mexico has leapfrogged China to be ranked as the cheap

Inquiring minds are interested in figuring out how long it might take to get back to "full employment" defined as 5%.John Mauldin touched upon this theme in Unemployment: Welcome to the New

Farewell, KB Toys, Circuit City, Mervyn’s, and Linens ‘n Things.Each retailer, now defunct, offered good prices, but that’s not enough in a recession. Quality and brand strength cou

The route was certainly circuitous but stocks ultimately staged a modest rebound from Friday’s ugly action. Ford’s (F) $997 million profit hoard, a three year high in manufacturing,

Absent an eve of Halloween horror show, stocks will avoid a red October after snapping a recent slide in emphatic fashion on GDP figures which showed the worst recession since the Second World War is

Banking on an economic rebound and better times ahead, investors have pushed hard into US Steel (X) recently. Shares of the Pittsburgh-based company, which has a market capitalization of nearly $6 bi

Ever since cave paintings presented a rudimentary depiction of the male and female form, pornography has had its place in the history of human existence. From Victorian lithographs and Tijuana Bibles

Exactly twelve months after its first close below 10,000 in almost four years, changed days indeed for the Dow. Amid seventieth birthday celebrations for The Wizard of Oz equities were all emerald ci

Buyers beware the beginning of a month. Taking their cue from yesterday’s sixtieth birthday celebrations in Beijing, stocks opened October amid a sea of red, the Dow’s decline eclipsing a