Fitch downgraded the sovereign debt ratings Friday of five European countries, with Italy and Spain taking the biggest hit.
- 1 hour ago, 27 Jan 12, 7:46pm -

We spoke to five families who face challenges that could keep them from meeting their financial goals. With a few tweaks to their game plan, they can get back on course. Here, Scott Pankratz and Julie Osborn's story -- and the recommended financial f…
- 3 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:51pm -

It is every parents' dream that their children enjoy a better life than they have. I am not sure if that's also true for parent companies and their offspring.
- 4 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:19pm -

We spoke to five families who face challenges that could keep them from meeting their financial goals. With a few tweaks to their game plan, they can get back on course. Here, the DiSilverios' story -- and the recommended financial fixes.
- 4 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:10pm -

The private equity world is struggling to stay in the shadows.
- 4 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:09pm -

U.S. stocks retreated Friday as jittery investors digested a weaker-than-expected economic growth report and as Europe's debt crisis still loomed in the background.
- 4 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 4:58pm -

Ford reported its best annual earnings since 1998 on Friday, making 2011 the second most profitable year in the company's 109-year history.
- 4 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 4:53pm -

The controversial anti-piracy bills that attracted tens of millions of dollars of lobbying for and against the proposed laws ironically were killed by free publicity.
- 5 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 3:58pm -

Exactly how much is Mitt Romney worth? Hard to say.
- 5 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 3:35pm -

Starbucks chief executive officer Howard Schultz was paid more than $65 million in fiscal year 2011, including salary, bonuses and stock options.
- 6 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 3:14pm -

The private equity world is struggling to stay in the shadows.
- 4 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:11pm -

Ford reported its best annual earnings since 1998 on Friday, making 2011 the second most profitable year in the company's 109-year history.
- 4 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 4:53pm -

The controversial anti-piracy bills that attracted tens of millions of dollars of lobbying for and against the proposed laws ironically were killed by free publicity.
- 5 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 3:58pm -

Starbucks chief executive officer Howard Schultz was paid more than $65 million in fiscal year 2011, including salary, bonuses and stock options.
- 6 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 3:16pm -

Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers said Thursday that doing business in other countries, including Russia, is easier than in the United States.
- 6 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 2:40pm -

Netflix is the highest flying stock on the S&P 500 Thursday, but was its fourth-quarter earnings report enough to justify a 22% run up in the stock?
- 8 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 12:29pm -

These Best Companies to Work For are using Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and other social media to get even better.
- 10 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 10:26am -

If you're looking for many of your favorite Giants player's jerseys before the big game -- fugetaboutit! And if it's Patriots game garb you want, good luck. It's wicked-hard to find!
- 23 hours ago, 26 Jan 12, 9:35pm -

AT&T handily beat Verizon in the battle for iPhone customers last quarter, but the company lost $6.7 billion in large part due to its failed merger with T-Mobile.
- 1 day ago, 26 Jan 12, 4:23pm -

Haven't made your plans yet to head to Indianapolis for the Super Bowl? Hope your credit card has some room on it -- tickets are going to cost you thousands of dollars over face value.
- 1 day ago, 26 Jan 12, 3:11pm -

It is every parents' dream that their children enjoy a better life than they have. I am not sure if that's also true for parent companies and their offspring.
- 4 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:20pm -

The private equity world is struggling to stay in the shadows.
- 4 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:11pm -

U.S. stocks retreated Friday as jittery investors digested a weaker-than-expected economic growth report and as Europe's debt crisis still loomed in the background.
- 4 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 4:59pm -

Netflix is the highest flying stock on the S&P 500 Thursday, but was its fourth-quarter earnings report enough to justify a 22% run up in the stock?
- 8 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 12:29pm -

Portugal has come under heavy pressure in the bond market this week as investors fear the nation could be the next domino to fall in the eurozone debt crisis.
- 1 day ago, 26 Jan 12, 7:41pm -

Are exchange-traded funds a prime culprit in one of the signature afflictions of the markets today -- the tendency of huge swaths of stocks or other assets to swing dramatically up or down at the same time? Critics are pointing their fingers at ETFs.…
- 1 day ago, 26 Jan 12, 7:23pm -

Apple nudged out oil giant Exxon Mobil early Wednesday to become the most valuable publicly-traded company in the world.
- 2 days ago, 25 Jan 12, 9:25pm -

Apple has nearly $100 billion in cash. $97.6 billion to be precise. That is a lot of iDough. Even for Warren Buffett. Perhaps it's time for Apple to, I don't know, use some of it?
- 2 days ago, 25 Jan 12, 6:12pm -

Bond yields are slowly creeping up in the United States as the economy improves. But with a yield barely above 2%, the 10-year Treasury is still not that far above its all-time lows.
- 2 days ago, 25 Jan 12, 5:38pm -

Ask Siri how Apple recorded the best quarter in history for a tech company, and her answer should be: "Me."
- 3 days ago, 24 Jan 12, 11:12pm -

As companies struggle through bankruptcy court, many still pay significant bonuses to top executives--despite a federal rule designed to curb such pay.
- 15 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:42am -

Email disclaimers, those wordy notices at the end of emails from lawyers, bankers, analysts and others, have become ubiquitous—so much so that many recipients, and even senders, are questioning their purpose.
- 15 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:42am -

What's News: World-Wide Top Stories for Jan. 27, 2012
- 15 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:42am -

Egypt blocked the U.S. transportation secretary's son and five other American pro-democracy workers from leaving the country, in an apparent rebuke to Obama by Cairo's military leaders.
- 15 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:42am -

Newt Gingrich is outpacing Mitt Romney by a comfortable margin among GOP voters, but also is showing evidence of vulnerabilities that could hurt him in a general election, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.
- 15 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:42am -

Mitt Romney's vulnerability on health care may not cost him the nomination, but it could cost him in November.
- 3 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 6:11pm -

Romney vs. Gingrich is a fight for the soul of the party Reagan once united.
- 5 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 3:34pm -

If Romney wins Florida, it won't be because he's becoming a more effective candidate.
- 18 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 2:32am -

The high court calls for accommodating religion. The White House pushes back.
- 19 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 1:59am -

It is more efficient for the Chinese to steal innovations and intellectual property than to incur the cost and time of creating their own.
- 19 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 1:56am -

While Rick Santorum is in Florida seeking to revive his presidential campaign, a man in Wyoming might hold the key to extending his candidacy, and the entire fight for the Republican nomination.
- 3 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:49pm -

Newt Gingrich's impulsiveness and self-confidence, on vivid display in the GOP primary, led both to triumph and downfall when he was in Congress.
- 3 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:40pm -

The president visited Michigan on the last stop on a five-state tour that White House officials said was government business but that also resembled a campaign trip.
- 3 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:39pm -

Gingrich is outpacing Romney among GOP voters, but he also is showing evidence of vulnerabilities that could hurt him in a general election, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.
- 3 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:37pm -

Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich sought both to settle old scores and unfurl new attacks Thursday night in the final high-stakes debate before Florida's pivotal primary.
- 3 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:35pm -