An upbeat retail sales report for August may have buoyed up some hopes for renewed consumer spending, but those on the frontlines — consumer products and retail executives — interviewed by CNBC on Wednesday weren't quite as upbeat.   Read More

Plus, get Cramer's calls on food stocks, natural gas and more.   Read More

Following are the day’s biggest winners and losers. Find out why shares of Heinz and UBS popped while PetSmart and Sears dropped.    Read More

Bubbling oil prices are the stock market rally's new friend, for now.   Read More

Stocks could drift on low volume in the final weeks of summer, but traders increasingly believe a pull back is brewing in the not too distant future. Even short interest, a powerful market driver, is waning.    Read More

Gary Rodkin's marketing genius sets this company apart from some pretty tough competitors.   Read More

Billionaire investor Nelson Peltz calls it his ‘secret sauce’ to investing. On the Closing Bell, Peltz told Maria that investors should focus on ‘key areas’ before putting money to work.    Read More

With stocks slowing climbing back up, should investors start putting cash to work again or should they continue to sit back and wait for a pullback? Portfolio managers Robert Loest of Integrity, Growth & Income and Bob Auer of Auer Growth Fund shared their opposing market outlooks.    Read More

The CEO of one of these companies has been given Mad Money’s “highest” honor.   Read More

Futures budged upwards after a mixed bag of economic reports at 8:30am ET... Weekly jobless claims came in essentially inline with estimates. Continuing claims continued to hit record highs... April durable goods rose 1.9 percent, far exceeding economist forecasts for a 0.5 percent rise.    Read More