Slim gains on vacation volume still sufficed to send the Dow Jones Index up for a sixth successive session as it and the Standard & Poor’s 500 closed at fresh highs for the year. While 1,10

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

As of October 11, there have been nearly 400,000 confirmed cases of pandemic H1N1 worldwide and more than 4,735 deaths reported to the World Health Organization, which estimates that the case count i

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

In a delicious irony, archaeologists unearthed Nero’s dining room a year to the day after Congressional fiddling while Rome burned caused stocks to crater. Yesterday’s decline in the Dow,

"Gerber baby" is synonymous with “cute, all-American child.” Just one thing: Gerber is part of Nestle (NSRGY), the Swiss conglomerate best known for chocolate. Few shoppers j

Minyan Morning Memo One to Watch: Google (GOOG) announces Q2 earnings today after the close. The Mountain View corporation is king of the hill in its domain, home to the Internet’s most vi

Senator Barack Obama is a either a naïf or a ninny. Based on his tax proposals, the key to any economic program, the nincompoop out-points the naïf. Here’s why: Obama proposes to rais

Imagine you’re running a marathon. Against incredible odds, you’re in first place. The finish line is just yards away; as you cross it, triumphant, the feeling of ecstasy immediately vani