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It’s Friday and I am just itching for the weekend. On the agenda: my oldest daughter’s soccer game, a family get-together, and plans to sleep in at least one day. Chances are I might hit

This holiday season, J.C. Penney (JCP) CEO and Chairman Myron E. Ullman III is armed with a lineup of exclusive fashion brands he helped bring to the department store chain, and he's ready to battle

They call it the "Botax." The White House and Senate Democrats have turned to a proposal to tax breast implants, tummy tucks, wrinkle-smoothing injections and other procedures as they searc

There will be blood all right and not just in oil, which suffered a steep drop to fall for the first day in four. As Twilight tweens screamed to see another gory story at the box office, S&P 500

The chorus of “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles”, music by John Kellette, and lyrics by James Kendis, James Brockman, and Nat Vincent, first performed on Broadway in 1918 (That’s r

A popular prescription in the personal finance domain is to increase or maximize annual contributions to 401(k)s or similar retirement plans. However, one of the best financial decisions I’ve m

It's conquered search. It's tinkered with Web apps. It's dabbled in Web browsing. And now, Google (GOOG) is entering the operating system game with its upcoming Chrome OS. Today, Google hosted a live

Peter,Earlier this week, on CNBC, banking analyst Meredith Whitney said, “I think that the call this year, the trade this year has been short the regional banks and go long the capital market

The rhetoric surrounding gold now glitters as brightly as the metal itself. Gold is slipping today, but its recent move has been dramatic and historic: in fact, gold reached a new all-time high price