One to watch: Taking a cue from the moody teens it outfits, shares of specialty retailer Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) have been all over the map this morning after the company swung to a wider-

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Editor's Note: James Quinn is a senior director of strategic planning for a major university. James has held high-level financial positions with a retailer, homebuilder and a university in his 22-yea

Who will be the winners of 2009? According to Bloomberg, the prospects include Cisco Systems (CSCO), General Electric (GE) and Emcor Group (EME) as President-elect Barack Obama seeks to revive the U.

"What's good for General Motors is good for the country."That misquote, attributed to a former General Motors (GM) president, is now getting a modern-day makeover. In an 867-word print

Rate-Cut Decision Imminent! The Federal Reserve will announce its decision on interest rates at 2:15 EST. According to Bloomberg, economists are expecting it to lower the benchmark rat

Will General Motors (GM) back a truck up to Uncle Sam’s discount window and load up on cash?The answer may depend on the interpretation of “What’s good for General Motors is good fo

I guess what’s happening now is the financial equivalent of the Normandy Invasion that was the beginning of the end of Nazi aggression in World War II. Today’s villain is a complex situat

Every morning, a bonfire burns in a 300-acre wooded compound in New Albany, Ohio. Dance music -- the throbbing, reverb-heavy kind you hear at circuit parties -- plays from every one of the tin-roofed

This article was written by Leonard A. Spivak. Len is currently Minyanville's outside legal consultant and a member of its Advisory Board. He recently retired as partner of the law firm of C