When tycoon Warren Buffett's investment company said on Christmas Day it would pay $4.5 billion for a 60 percent stake in industrial conglomerate Marmon Holdings Inc., Buffett gave the U.S. industrial segment a much-needed vote of confidence. ...more

December 27, 2007

When people start talking about rappers and supermodels shunning the dollar, you know there's a problem. ...more

November 15, 2007

many haven't - but forget all those horrors that recently haunted Halloween movie and TV screens. AMT is the real thing - a monster that's about to eat you up. Well, a lot of you anyway. ...more

November 14, 2007

Democrat Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York marked Veterans Day by calling for new assistance programs, but said she would move more carefully than her rivals on dealing with looming shortfalls facing the Social Security system. ...more

November 12, 2007

Google's stock price barreled through $700 for the first time Wednesday, propelled by a belief that the Internet search leader will become even more profitable as it plants its products and services in new markets. ...more

November 1, 2007

Stocks rose soundly Wednesday after word that some of the problems dogging big companies such as General Motors Corp. and Bear Stearns Cos. could be on the mend. ...more

September 27, 2007