Assuming you’re a handy guy or gal, when you need to re-roof your house, build a tree house in your backyard, put up a new mailbox, paint your living room, or install a bathroom faucet, where w

The October retail sales numbers released this morning present a very mixed bag. Excluding autos, strategists say they looked mediocre at best. More to the point, the recent decision of corporate ins

As we’ve all learned by now, hope is not a strategy.Still, Lowe’s (LOW) Chief Executive Robert Niblock tried to evoke that feeling of hopefulness in announcing the company’s dismal

Minus the rain and the massive pile of leaves I had to deal with in my backyard, it was a terrific weekend. But as usual, it seemed just a little too short.Asian stocks rose overnight. The Hang Seng

Stocks shrugged off a surprising decline in consumer confidence from the University of Michigan (or was it Ohio?) to finish higher Friday on light volume and end a second successive winning week. Dis

The route was certainly circuitous but stocks ultimately staged a modest rebound from Friday’s ugly action. Ford’s (F) $997 million profit hoard, a three year high in manufacturing,

Cher sure got her wish last week, clocks (and stocks) both going back. Daylight -- and assorted other -- Savings disappeared as the Dow ended October with its worst one day point decline si

I've been talking about the Job-Loss Recovery for quite some time. (Click here to see recent examples of my discussion, and check out Professor Megan Barnett's explanation in The Decoder: Jobless Rec

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

Even as the economy seems to be stabilizing, foreclosures in the US climbed to a record in the third quarter, affecting nearly 938,000 properties, according to a report by Realty Trac.This compares t