Toyota (TM) will offer 0% financing on 11 models in an effort to boost sagging sales during the credit crunch. No-interest financing will be offered for periods of 36 to 60 months on the Matrix, Coro

Behold: Starting in 2009, new cars sold in California will carry a “global warming score.”Call it the Bureaucrats’ Full Employment Act.The new score is based on emissions and fuel co

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

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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

Hello from New York where, whatever "life-related" challenges I might be presented with today, at least I'm not FedEx (FDX). In addition to FDX's much publicized earnings warning this mornin

Citrix Systems (CTXS): Just yesterday this stock was downgraded. In the interview with Reuters the CFO is calling for a strong second half, though he cited continued sluggish results in the U.S. Virtu

Kevin Depew's Five Things You Need to Know to stay ahead of the pack on Wall Street: 1. Regional Bank Woes Awaken Main Street While Wall Street is busy congratulating itself with heart thumping back