This holiday season, J.C. Penney (JCP) CEO and Chairman Myron E. Ullman III is armed with a lineup of exclusive fashion brands he helped bring to the department store chain, and he's ready to battle

The chorus of “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles”, music by John Kellette, and lyrics by James Kendis, James Brockman, and Nat Vincent, first performed on Broadway in 1918 (That’s r

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

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For the tobacco industry, there’s a lot of money to be made by getting people hooked on cigarettes and keeping them as customers for life. But smoking cessation products are increasingly sendin

It’s a small shot in the arm, but it could mean big money for pharmaceutical companies around the world. With flu season upon us and swine flu threatening to reach pandemic proportions, Big Pha

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In times of financial insecurity, it seems reasonable to assume that Americans will lean firmer on their sinful addictions to muddle through the stress and volatility brought on by harsh economic tim

The mainstream press still looks enthralled with the story of the alleged fraud at Galleon and the technically meaningless milestone of the Dow busting through 10,000.But here at the ‘Ville, we

The Dow broke above 10,000 last week, news that may have buoyed the spirits of cable news producers but meant zilch for the rest of us.In fact, this is the 26th time the Dow pierced the 10,000 milest