The core inflation rate -- which strips out food and energy prices -- slid to an annual rate of 1.4% in the third quarter from 2% in the second quarter. Low inflation, courtesy of a weak economy, giv

Editor's Note: Breaking news from our satire department.Goldman Sachs (GS) is dominating the headlines today with its 10,000 Small Businesses Initiative. The $500 million program will unlock the grow

Almost nothing about Sheldon Adelson’s remarkable rise to wealth was conventional. There were no silver spoons, no Ivy League degrees, no friends in high places.Instead, Adelson became one of t

Stanley Works (SWK) but untold others don’t. The toolmaker hit a 52-week high Friday after its Black & Decker (BDK) acquisition even as double digit unemployment threw a wrench into th

About the best that can be said for 2009 is that our world didn’t actually blow up, though there were moments when it looked like it might. The bad news is, now we have to get all revved up for

Forget Armani, highballs, and Beamers. For decades, cocaine has been a prevailing vice among day traders, bankers, and brokers -- becoming so ingrained with New York's financial district that the cor

You had to figure there was a reason they called it “comfort food.” Nothing explains the phrase better than the recent recession, which saw families look to stretch their dollars and lift

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

National Amusements plans to sell a portion of its stock in CBS Corporation (CBS) and Viacom (VIA) to repay debt. National Amusements has no plans to further reduce its holdings in CBS or Viacom and

Google's (GOOG) Android mobile-phone operating-system software is the talk of the town this week. Verizon (VZ) is hoping Android will help it leapfrog, or at least gain some ground on Apple's (AAPL)