I’m not sure what happened last night. I was tinkering around on the Web, just surfing news, and lost track of time. When I looked up, it was midnight. Not good when you have to wake up at 4:30

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

The Good: Labor Practices American Apparel (APP) has been lauded for its sweatshop free, “Made In Downtown L.A.” production, a soup-to-nuts system where everything from knitting and dyein

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I’m becoming increasingly convinced that the upcoming earnings season will produce bifurcated results with larger companies generating at or above consensus results while smaller, more US-centr

A year after the leprosy of Lehman and assorted other ominous anniversaries, stocks ended the week at 11-month highs. Market action was moving and anything but average as the S&P 500 rose 20% abo

Even though I was feeling under the weather the last few days, it turned out to be an awesome weekend. I hit the beach for some shell hunting with the kids, jammed an unusually large number of quarte

Anniversaries abound. Friday saw the most somber, and a spooky statistic eight years after infamy. Last week also marked six months since most major markets bottomed; their subsequent gain of almost

Stocks rose for a fifth straight session, continuing their steady reign on the day Daniel Craig, aka James Bond, began Broadway previews of A Steady Rain. Indeed bonds everywhere showed strength afte

  Tater tots. They're the first things that pop to mind at the mere mention of the phrase "school lunch." But are those tots -- and all the other bits that go into the divided lunch t