With deep pricing discounts on many electronic products, retailers are hoping to lure in shoppers who are guarding their wallets more carefully. Read More
The Consumer Price Index, a measure of the average price level of a basket of consumer goods and services, was up 0.3% for the month of October, while the core CPI rate, excluding energy and food, rose 0.2%. On a year-over-year basis, consumer prices were down .2%. Read More
In what appears to be a bet consumers will stick with discount retailers even after the economy rebounds, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway increased its Wal-Mart holdings by almost 90 percent during the summer. It added almost 18 million shares, currently worth almost $1 billion, in the third quarter. Read More
Warren Buffett tells CNBC that Berkshire Hathaway hasn't added to its stock holdings of American Express "in years." That's in response to a statement made by biographer Alice Schroeder in the just-published paperback edition of The Snowball. Read More
Following are the week’s biggest winners and losers. Find out why shares of Dow Chemical and Massey Energy popped while Macy’s and Genzyme dropped. Read More
The S&P 500 snapped a 6-day winning streak with an ever-so-slight 0.07 point decline yesterday. However, rising 5.5% during the period, the run-up was the best such streak for the big-cap index since March 2003. Returning to the green today, the S&P is now up 7 of the first 8 trading days this month. Read More
Historically and on average, the U.S Markets have been up about 58% of the time or more on the day of Veterans' Day. The S&P has averaged best of the major indices on the day of Veterans' Day, up an average of 0.1% and up 64% of the time. Read More