Seeing shades of blue? On November 14, the whole globe will be seeing them, too. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) is hosting World Diabetes Day and asking that monuments around the globe b

Weather permitting, I’ve got three soccer games, a birthday party, and a pile of leaves in my backyard the size of small Volkswagon awaiting me this weekend.Asian stocks ended mixed. The Hang S

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You buy your sister a $100 general-purpose gift card. It's for her birthday, but it might be the bank that has reason to celebrate.Despite your good intentions, such gift cards often come with a tang

The coffee king will provide a window into the consumer’s mind when it announces earnings later today. Analysts expect Starbucks (SBUX) to report fourth-quarter earnings of about $0.21 per shar

Today, with Halloween behind us, I imagine that over-sugared families across America are putting away their costumes and decorations and are now looking ahead to Thanksgiving.It seems an appropriate

My daughter went on an end-of-summer iTunes binge and is now paying the price. She told me beforehand that she was downloading a few songs, and I reminded her she would have to pay me for them when I

One reason why NBC's comedy The Office has achieved such broad appeal is because anyone who has ever worked in an office anywhere can relate to it. Whether it's the incompetent boss, the drab office

The S&P 500 rose for a sixth successive session, its best run since June of ‘07, as it and the Dow each ended at highs for the year, although an afternoon about-face on vacation volume mean

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