First, lobster dropped to lunch-meat prices. Now, wine is cheaper than water! So, you know what you have to do to beat this recession, right? Have a feast!

Stocks were under pressure Monday as a dismal jobs report last week and expectations for a gloomy earnings season nagged at the market. But the Dow turned positive as investors took advantage of the selloff and did some bargain hunting.

Katherine Jackson urged the court to let her stay in charge of her son's estate—a request she was denied—as her attorneys filed papers saying, "these circumstances are anything but ordinary."

Slow economic growth coupled with a meteoric stocks rally that will be difficult to sustain is making for a challenging second half for investors.

Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, former chief executive of American International Group Inc , fabricated documents and lied under oath in a bid to rewrite history and cloud who is the rightful beneficiary of a large and valuable block of AIG stock, AIG lawyer Ted Wells told a federal jury Monday.

General Motors has been given about a third of the bankruptcy financing promised by the U.S. Treasury and will get the remaining $20 billion over the remainder of the year, a senior U.S. official said Monday.

When I clicked on Bing's search results, almost every site it linked me to was full of "Ads by Google." Bing is doing a good job of generating ad revenue – for Google.

Goldman Sachs has not seen its business or clients harmed by the activities of a computer programmer being held in custody for allegedly stealing secret trading codes from the firm, a source familiar with the situation said.

Michael Jackson's concerts always were difficult to get tickets to, but that's nothing compared to the pop star's memorial service.

Five-star fund manager Richard Parower seeks "growth at the right price" — and he says there's plenty to be found in technology stocks. The handler of the Seligman Global Technology Fund — up 26 percent year-to-date — shared his top picks with CNBC.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says the summit with President Barack Obama is a "first but very important step" toward revitalizing relations between Russia and the United States.

The U.S. Justice Department has begun looking at big telecom companies to try to determine if they have abused their market power, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition Monday.

Michael Jackson's concerts always were difficult to get tickets to, but that's nothing compared to the pop star's memorial service.

The market may be slow but new technologies for vehicles are appearing at a blistering pace. Here are some cutting edge features that might be common in a few years.

Could a carrot-chomping Bugs Bunny become a drug pitchman? Well, maybe, if the small Israeli company Protalix BioTherapeutics could pay Warner Brothers enough money for Bugs' services.

Chicago investment banker Tom Ricketts is a step closer to owning the Chicago Cubs. CNBC has confirmed that Ricketts, whose father Joe founded TD Ameritrade, signed the papers yesterday with the Tribune Company that would make him the owner of the team, Wrigley Field and a stake in the regional sports network should the sale clear all hurdles.

The two leading makers of computer security software, Symantec and McAfee, are like preachers who conduct dueling tent revivals.

I have been warning clients for about two months that the mid-June-mid-October time period is the danger zone for a mood shift, and it looks like we're on schedule.

U.S. manufacturers have taken a beating in the current downturn. Outside of housing and finance, it is hard to think of an industry that has suffered more.

When Congress passed a new energy law two years ago, obituaries were written for the incandescent light bulb. The law set tough efficiency standards, due to take effect in 2012, that no traditional incandescent bulb on the market could meet, and a century-old technology that helped create the modern world seemed to be doomed. But as it turns out, the obituaries were premature.