Editor's Note: Welcome to Love It or Hate It, a regular dual-column feature that will capture the love-hate relationship America has with some of its biggest, most controversial companies. For past c

Editor's Note: This article was written by Richard Suttmeier, chief market strategist at ValuEngine.com, which is a fundamentally-based quant research firm in Princeton, New Jersey, that covers more

Kirk Kerkorian, the 92-year-old billionaire investor, so-called father of the mega-resort, and richest man in Los Angeles, worked odd jobs as a boy during the Great Depression and never went to high

My wife rented The Taking of Pelham 123 last night and as a huge Denzel Washington fan, I was pumped to watch it. I’m not sure where I nodded off, but I woke up to see the ending credits rollin

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

No one goes into Walmart (WMT) and asks to pay extra sales tax. Thus sales taxes are reasonable barometers for retail sales. This week we look at how taxes are doing in a period of economic recovery.

The United States, long an exporter of popular culture, may be exporting obesity to Europe, Asia, and Africa thanks to strong fast-food sales led by McDonald’s (MCD).The World Health Organizati

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Thanksgiving is all about family gathering around a table laden with food, right?But there aren’t any rules about where the table is placed. Or if there are rules, maybe it’s time to brea

The trannies are talking and what they’re saying has some pros spooked.Technicians and strategists note that the Dow Transports are struggling. Smita Sadana, founder and CEO of Sunrise Capital,