A tough (and Tufts) end to trading after a stand pat Fed saw shares stand still, equities giving up earlier increases to end mixed as markets discovered a House is not a home. Our elected Representat

Minyan Morning Memo One to watch: Early this morning while you were sleeping, Anglo-Dutch consumer products company Unilever (UL) reported earnings. Though the results appeared to be in the eye of th

Saturday Night Live goes commercial? Horrors! What looked like a "MacGruber" sketch appeared during the Super Bowl, but it was instead a clever ad for Pepsi (PEP). It also indirectly p

Advertisements for a grotesque new energy drink, called TruBlood, have everyone eager to grow fangs and become a vampire. Maybe you’ve seen them: Ultra-slick matte-black spots for a beverage th

My firm held a 64-stock tournament in March - something we’ve been doing weekly for years, always around some secular bull or bear we’ve singled out for attention. That particular con

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