Dow Industrials posted a triple-digit gain today, snapping a 6-session losing streak. Ironically, they both got a lift from a deal for a chain of steakhouses. There were also big mergers in the pharma...
Hey, Chris, how are you? At Havana's International Trade Fair, the arrival of these men drew everyone's attention. Thank you for coming to Cuba. On the right, US cattle rancher, John Parke Wright, a F...
The housing market is softening up around the country and you would think that the high-end homes will take the biggest hit, but that's not the case. Sales of homes above a million-dollar-mark appear...
Lots of countries, lots of businesses are plunging money into China. General Motors has this factory in Shanghai. The Park Hyatt is building this project in Beijing. It's a process repeated thousands...
Stocks bounced out and in of negative territory throughout the day as investors reacted to bleak sales figures from Wal-Mart and the latest consumer spending figures. Let's take a look at the numbers....
What if I answered: Well, it depends. You say: Oh ,come on ,Val, be more direct than that. (Please) But it does depend on how much education you have because according to a new government report, a ba...
The trouble with Sony. It's not a Hitchcock film, but the last few months have been a thriller for the world's No.2 consumer electronics firm, with battery recalls, product delays, and analyst and mar...
The idea of “play big” is that a lot of the advantages that big businesses once held over smaller companies no longer exists, and it's easier than ever for small businesses to look and act like bi...
There are plenty of skeptics though, if you think back to it, when Wall Street analysts began talking about Google as a 400-dollar-a-share stock, do you remember that? Yeah. Well, on Thursday, it clos...
Little old ladies competing at dumpling-making contests, butchers chopping large chunks of meat basketballs by the dozen. Five million people a week shop at Wal-Mart stores in China. And if the Americ...
