The pharmaceutical landscape is rapidly changing as patents for some of the blockbuster drugs of the last decade near expiration and other players try to grab some of the remaining revenues before ge

Vivus (VVUS) is raising the bar on erectile dysfunction drugs, potentially becoming the latest formidable competitor to Viagra and Cialis in the $3.8 billion market. Investors in the California-based

Getting kicked down stairs at a small home-improvement company made Kenneth Langone rich and has saved millions of do-it-yourselfers big bucks.In 1978, the legendary investor got into a tiff with the

Seeing shades of blue? On November 14, the whole globe will be seeing them, too. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) is hosting World Diabetes Day and asking that monuments around the globe b

The Dow and Nikkei each ended off, though they remain above the 10,000 mark which both recently breached to much fanfare. (Of course, go back two and twenty years respectively and the benchmarks

The S&P 500 is on its strongest streak in a month, with upbeat economic and earnings updates sending the index higher for a fourth successive session. Gold was good for another record though it w

I got home a bit early last night and played about an hour of soccer in the backyard with the kids. Man, I’m wiped out! Everything but my hair hurts.Asian stocks ended mixed. The Hang Seng was

A year after investors lost their shirts, a bank paid $132 million to outfit a soccer team. Modest gains helped many major markets hit fresh ‘09 highs; the ghosts of twelve months ago are obvio

Inquiring minds are reading the details of an interview in the Tuscaloosa News with Congressman Spencer Bachus. Please consider Bachus discusses Social Security, health care.  “Social S

With fuming Americans lashing out at health-care town-hall meetings across the US, this week, I thought it was only appropriate to discuss the sector today. Like much of the general public, I’m