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

From Wall Street to the Great Wall summits are suddenly in fashion. After the S&P 500 climbed to close above 1100 for the first time in over a year and the Dow scaled a fresh 13-month peak, the P

A tough (and Tufts) end to trading after a stand pat Fed saw shares stand still, equities giving up earlier increases to end mixed as markets discovered a House is not a home. Our elected Representat

Even the national economy isn't spared the costs of certain mega sports events. March Madness -- the term for the annual NCAA men’s basketball championship -- is believed to spawn costs that go

When you’re really desperate for cash, what do you sell after you’ve already hocked everything you can think of selling?Something you’d never think of selling.As seen on Craigslist:

Photo by Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images In 1994, Spielberg launched DreamWorks SKG with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. It produced or distributed about 10 movies w

I’ve got three -- yes, three -- Halloween parties to go to this weekend. My kids convinced me to go as Frankenstein, however my wife would argue that’s not too much of a stretch. Asian st

Stocks rebounded sharply on upbeat earnings and economics, with Leading Indicators posting their strongest six month performance since 1983. Amazon.com’s (AMZN) after-hours surge on stella

There was a time I loved Martha Stewart. Well, actually I loved her magazine, Martha Stewart Living. Since I had already succumbed to the cheap side of the force, there was no way I was going to actu

Insider trading is back, big time. On Friday, federal prosecutors and the SEC charged Raj Rajaratnam, the founder of New York hedge fund the Galleon Group, with insider trading in the stocks of sever