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A popular prescription in the personal finance domain is to increase or maximize annual contributions to 401(k)s or similar retirement plans. However, one of the best financial decisions I’ve m

It's conquered search. It's tinkered with Web apps. It's dabbled in Web browsing. And now, Google (GOOG) is entering the operating system game with its upcoming Chrome OS. Today, Google hosted a live

Since listing five reasons to sell Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) back in August, the retail stock has risen another 32%. Year to date, the stock is up over 75%. And what really takes the cake is Gold

The core inflation rate -- which strips out food and energy prices -- slid to an annual rate of 1.4% in the third quarter from 2% in the second quarter. Low inflation, courtesy of a weak economy, giv

Economist Brad DeLong, of the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley, is getting increasingly pessimistic. He says the chance of Great Depression now is at 5%:  For 2 1/4 years now I have been

This... is the lobby of the Petersham Hotel -- nine miles northeast of Trafalgar Square. The noise you hear is the sound of room service handing me my tuna sandwich. At some point after the blitz,

The recession hasn’t taken a bite out of Petsmart’s (PETM) earnings, thanks to the company’s ability to cut costs and slightly increase margins on essentially flat sales.The nation&

It’s fascinating how the sell side uniformly aligned to praise the Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) acquisition of 3Com (COMS) last week. Cheerleaders are plentiful but analysis of an underlying problem s

This week’s review comes to you in a shortened format as I don’t have access to my normal research resources while on the road in Europe. Although very little commentary is provided, a fu