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The market for portable navigation devices is red-hot. Global positioning system (GPS) devices have been around for years, but only recently have they become affordable, as manufacturers have found more [...]

Although most people know McGraw-Hill as the publisher of textbooks and BusinessWeek magazine, the company is far more diverse. It owns Standard & Poor's, which rates companies and government entities, [...]

The stock market's sharp advance on March 6 gave shaken investors some respite from the daily pounding they'd taken over the past week. But the rally doesn't mean that the [...]

The growing momentum to curb global warming by regulating carbon dioxide emissions bodes well for Exelon, a Chicago-based utility. That's because the company -- which sells electricity and gas to [...]

It's been said that a Monet painting looks good from afar, but up close it looks like a jumbled mess. The opposite appears true for Getty Images. At first glance, [...]

With the holiday season in full swing, brokerages and investment banks are busy trotting out their holiday shopping lists. This slate of timely investing ideas -- including five 'buy' recommendations [...]

Hewlett-Packard may be entangled in a scandal, but you wouldn't know it by looking at its stock price over the past few weeks. Since word spread earlier this month about [...]

The nation's number-two computer-chip manufacturer, Advanced Micro Devices, has been steadily gaining ground against archrival Intel over the past few years. But the battle between the two semiconductor titans has [...]

The research that investment pros use to analyze stocks doesn't come cheap. Subscribers of FactSet Research Systems know this. The data supplier, which does business with banks, money managers and [...]

Luxuries haven't taken a hit because of high gas prices and a slowing economy, if upscale department-store chain Nordstrom's recent performance is any measure. And there's evidence the trend will [...]

These days, diners are eating out less and choosing more budget-friendly restaurants on account of lofty gas prices and rising interest rates. While many casual dining chains such as Applebee's [...]

Biotech giant Genentech's latest earnings report signaled blue skies for the company, with the exception of one ominous storm cloud: Avastin. Despite posting a nearly 80% jump in profits during [...]

The world's biggest lumber company, Weyerhaeuser, is slimming down and spiffing up its operations. The Federal Way, Wash., timber producer has been shuttering and selling lagging mills and is looking [...]

In June 2005, John Mack took the helm of Wall Street investment bank Morgan Stanley and vowed to revive its operations, including an underperforming brokerage unit and flagging asset-management business. [...]

Large-scale acquisitions rarely come off without kinks. Indigestion is often the culprit, and the swap of Legg Mason's brokerage unit for Citigroup's money-management business is no exception. Shares of Baltimore-based [...]

Auto racing is one of the country's most popular and fastest-growing spectator sports -- the evidence is everywhere. Corporate sponsorship is exploding on the Nascar circuit. The sportsfan base is [...]

It's been a rough year so far for Research in Motion, maker of BlackBerry wireless e-mail devices. The Waterloo, Ontario, company is still recovering from -- and eager to distance [...]

Small-town hospital operator Community Health Systems is growing strong. The Brentwood, Tenn., company owns the largest collection of non-urban hospitals, which it steadily expands by acquiring two to four facilities [...]