Sales of new houses fell in September, sending many builders’ stocks lower Wednesday. It seems the market wrote checks based on previous good news from the sector that the economy can’t y

Well, I enjoyed a 2.5 hour commute home last night, courtesy of drivers rubbernecking an accident on the New Jersey Turnpike. To say I wanted to pull my hair out as we traveled at the breakneck speed

With all the hype and focus on smartphones in general and the iPhone (AAPL) specifically, there’s been another little-noticed phenomena taking place in the consumer-electronics arena: LCD TVs a

Stocks posted their first weekly decline since early October with unhappy anniversaries all around us; Monday marked twenty-two years since one serious slump day and the Great Depression was unoffici

The Cold Play song “Viva la Vida” whose lyrics go “I used to rule the world” comes to mind when I think of Corning (GLW). This is because not too long ago, the New York-based

Stocks laughed all the way to the big banks as Goldman’s upgrade of the sector saw a four-day slide end in emphatic fashion. Innerwear outfit Hanesbrands (HBI) (+12.05%) and Victoria&

A year after investors lost their shirts, a bank paid $132 million to outfit a soccer team. Modest gains helped many major markets hit fresh ‘09 highs; the ghosts of twelve months ago are obvio

Minyan Morning MemoOne to watch: Amgen (AMGN) releases second-quarter results after the close. The world’s biggest biotech company did $15 billion in global sales last year on the back of

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