Retailers expect at least two more big chances to snag healthy holiday sales gains - starting with today's "Cyber Monday" hustle of online shopping. Experts say spending online will jump by 20 percent this season, nearing a record $30 billion in...
Two struggling so-called pink-sheet companies have recently begun running advertisements on CNBC as a high-profile way of moving their stocks higher. Pink-sheet companies ConnectAJet and Hear At Last have seen their stock prices jump after their...
A lot of people complain when a commercial break interrupts their show. Now, there's a show for people who want to watch one long commercial break. Firebrand, a company and TV show dedicated to "commercial culture," is making its cable debut...
The bond market's next shoe to drop is likely to be the painful decline in the value of hundreds of billions of dollars worth of triple-A rated issues backed by mortgages and other assets - the onetime rock-solid cousin of the toxic...
Hog wild Shares of motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson Inc. may be cheap, given the company's strong brand recogni tion with consumers, Barron's said in today's issue. The business weekly said that while the next 12 months won't be easy for the company...
RON Darling, current Mets SNY announcer and former star pitcher for the team in its World Champion season in 1986, has signed a book deal with the Knopf imprint of Random House, Inc. to write a how-to guide to pitching. Darling was 15-6 for the...
KOHLER, Wis. - For clients of Scott Kelly's architecture firm, seeing - and going - are believing. His Philadelphia company urges its customers to install high-efficiency toilets, which use 20 percent less water than the previous generation of...
WINNERS STEPHEN RIGGIO Barnes & Noble CEO books strong sales and profit gains for the latest quarter. WARREN SPECTOR Former Bears Stearns copresident could get as much as $23M in compensation after creating a summer debacle. RICHARD BREEDEN Activist...
There are as many styles of music as there are fashions in clothing - and that goes for music reporting, too. This week's magazines run the gamut, with offerings of everything from interviews to rankings, with politics and scandal to leaven the mix...
