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The sun may be setting on the Tequila Sunrise, the drink of choice for undergraduates behaving badly on those Spring Break trips to Mexico. Kids aren't suddenly joining the Temperance Union or coming

Bunge for Corn Products Bloomberg reports Bunge (BG) has agreed to buy Corn Products International (CPO). The world’s largest oilseed processor will pay the equivalent of $56 for each share of C

No apes for biofuel! Growing demand for ethanol has driven up the cost of corn in the United States and led to clearing rainforests in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand to plant oil palm, a highly prod

The Holy Grail de jour of financial market prognostication is predicting the bottom in housing. It's a fool's errand, however. Investing based on a perceived end to declining property values has&

According to Bloomberg, the New York Times Company (NYT) said today that advertising revenue at its newspapers and Web sites fell 13% in May. It was the biggest monthly decline this year for the third

To drill or not to drill? What's good for offshore drillers such as Transocean (RIG), Noble Corporation (NE) and ENSCO (ESV) isn't necessarily good for consumers. Even a major oil discovery off the co

South Africa’s electricity provider, Eskom, was given permission to raise prices another 13.3 percent (starting in July) after already being given permission to raise prices 14.2 percent, for a

Social networking is moving from infancy to adolescence, as the market landscape evolves and competing business models vie for superiority.Venture capitalists are betting LinkedIn can thrive in an inc