Late on Wednesday, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) upped the ante on its rivalry with Cisco (CSCO) when it announced its plans to purchase 3Com (COMS) for $7.90 per share in cash or $2.7 billion.3Com sells ent

Profits are up at MasterCard (MA), thanks to a greater number of transactions as consumers continue to shift to debit and credit cards and away from cash and checks.MasterCard says the number of tran

Last Thursday, I received an email concerning debt deflation from David Meier, associate adviser at the MotleyFool.David asked if I had any comments on his article Debt-deflation: Just the beginning?

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There are bull markets and bear markets, but do we now have a schizophrenic market?Caterpillar (CAT), the world’s largest maker of construction equipment, offered an upbeat earnings outlook Tue

I first wrote about the Muddle-Through Economy in 2002, and the term has more or less become a theme I've returned to from time to time. In 2007 I wrote that we would indeed get back to a Muddle-Thro

How long, O Lord, how long? It's always good to remember that the stock market is not the economy. Every day I come into the office to find literally dozens of emails complaining that the market is i

JPMorgan Chase (JPM), the first of the big banks to report third-quarter earnings, kicked it off with a bang this morning. The New York-based bank said its quarterly profit jumped to $3.6 billion, or

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Has societal acrimony finally arrived in the city of critters? Remember that "big picture" S&P trendline from the March lows we recently highlighted? Do you see the exac