When hunger pangs strike, it’s no surprise that Americans prefer staying in rather than dining out as this struggling economy tries to find its footing.And, as everybody knows, the restaurant i

The Dow and Nikkei each ended off, though they remain above the 10,000 mark which both recently breached to much fanfare. (Of course, go back two and twenty years respectively and the benchmarks

Yahoo Profits Surge! Yahoo (YHOO) shares are gaining ground this morning. The Sunnyvale, California-based company reported that third-quarter profits more than tripled to $186.1 million, or $0.13 a s

Risky assets remained in favor during the past week, generally helped along by fairly robust economic data and better-than-expected corporate earnings reports. A number of bourses, crude oil, inflati

Next week, the bulk of the S&P 500 companies will report earnings.So far investors have responded to earnings reports by “selling the news”. This has some pundits saying that the top

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A lot of Americans returned home from summer vacation to find a padlock on the front door.According to RealtyTrac, foreclosure filings -- default notices, scheduled auctions, and bank repossessions -

Stocks rose a for fourth successive session, though gains were pared in the afternoon after the Fed threw the Beige Book at equities. A Stone has fueled concerns the market is about to hit a brick Wa

A study by JPMorgan Chase (JPM) says global regulatory changes, as a result of the financial crisis, are likely to cut into long-term profits at US and European investment banks by nearly one-th

Bears finally got their wish as the market managed to pullback this past week. However, next week will be holiday shortened, and it will be the first time in about a month that most of the “big