Frank Stronach, chairman and founder of Magna International (MGA), launched his empire by making 300,000 sun visor brackets for General Motors. The rest, as they say, is history.Nine years after the

Editor's Note: This article was written by Richard Suttmeier, chief market strategist at ValuEngine.com, which is a fundamentally-based quant research firm in Princeton, New Jersey, that covers more

One of the most memorable moments from the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona came when Michael Jordan and the rest of the “Dream Team” received the gold medal for crushing their opponents b

When last we caught up with researcher Jim Taylor, vice chairman of The Harrison Group, he talked all about the emerging new resourcefulness of consumers. This week, delivering an update on the behav

It seems as if change is in the air and no, it’s not the crisp air of late October, it’s the market. Once again, after opening higher, the S&P 500 reversed sharply today once the Doll

Earnings season is now in full gear and so far the reaction to reports has been mixed.Strong quarters have been met with buying: Microsoft’s (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), and Google (GOOG) for example

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

The “race to debase” went into high gear yesterday. First, Brazil imposed a tax on foreign investment to try and stem the real’s climb. Second, the Bank of Canada warned that t

Cookie magazine, Conde Nast's bible for fashion-centric parents, folded this fall, but the party was already over. Unlike the days of anything goes lofty excess, in today's more down-to-earth parenta

Earnings season is set to get in full gear this week, and a number of companies are likely to report significant sequential-revenue gains due to a quarter-on-quarter drop in the US dollar, so say ana