About the best that can be said for 2009 is that our world didn’t actually blow up, though there were moments when it looked like it might. The bad news is, now we have to get all revved up for

Rallies -- and rally monkeys -- were all the rage yesterday as major markets reached new 2009 peaks, a performance which played particularly well in Peoria with hometown hero Caterpillar (CAT) (

If Mattel (MAT) is an indicator, the kids don’t come first in a recession.The toymaker’s third-quarter profit dipped 3.5% as consumers cut back. Mattel’s net income fell to $229.8 m

The game itself may not have been particularly competitive, but you can bet that the National Football League’s corporate offices in New York were pleased with the result. Shortly after last we

With Nielsen analysts foreseeing unimpressive sales this December -- in addition to legitimately scary Halloween spending -- retailers are scrambling to generate some creative efforts to pique custom

Toy companies can be tough to analyze at times -- mainly because there can be a large amount of seasonality, and because they can go through boom and bust cycles depending on whether or not their lat

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Equity markets had their biggest rally this year after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke outlined steps to fix the banking industry in a morning address. His remarks, delivered to the Counci

What a day it was for the market. Turnaround Tuesday definitely lived up to the hype.Citigroup (C) came out and said they had 2 profitable quarters through the first 3 months of this year; all the ba

The stock market is on a tear this morning on the heels of a statement by CEO Vikram Pandit that Citigroup (C) has a profit for the first 2 months of 2009. In a letter sent to employees Monday,