"Young audiences are exercising an influence on what gets made way out of proportion to their numbers in the population," writes the author who examines what's happening to the movies.

It's early in the third-quarter earnings season, but two trends are emerging.

Electricity company NRG Energy has been strong for months, and the bulls came back to the name yesterday.

Equities finish lower, Alcoa and Yum get earnings season off to a good start.

Some of Facebook’s biggest backers are hoping that cutting-edge technology can change politics the way Facebook changed the way people interact.

Revenue is down on Wall Street but expectations for bonuses are up — at least for some workers who have seen their pay shrink since the financial crisis explosion.

Real estate is and always will be local, and this recovery is becoming increasingly local. That is clear in the latest numbers on supplies of distressed homes.

Central banks are once again tacitly pegging their currencies to the dollar. As the U.S. is expanding its monetary base through quantitative easing (QE), other countries have few options but to join this race to the bottom to maintain export competitiveness. This will not carry on indefinitely.

Lowe’s has been rising with the recovery in the housing market, and yesterday the home-improvement chain saw some bullish option activity.

There is reduced bearish conditions in the Dow index, but the rise in the Dow is slow.

A quiet day of trading as the markets slowly approach 5-year highs; the meningitis outbreak grows; Huawei fires back at the U.S. and the IMF slashes forecasts for global economic growth.

To generate rates of return with less risk than the overall market, one portfolio manager suggests diversifying across a basket of asset classes.

Facebook is testing "Collections," which will allow users to share products and even buy the items through the social network.

Once the dregs of the U.S. economy, beleaguered mortgage banks are becoming more attractive as the home sector claws back from a depression, an analyst said Monday.

One of the most popular — and already among the most funded — projects on Kickstarter is the Ostrich pillow, a hilarious yet practical product that gives you an instant napping environment — anywhere!

Netflix has surged more than 30 percent in the past week. Monday’s 10 percent gain was sparked by a Morgan Stanley upgrade, but at least one analyst suggests investors tread cautiously.

The latest numbers on wholesale prices the dealers are paying shows not only how far prices have dropped, but also raises the questions of how much further they could slide.

A recently launched iPhone app offers consumers the chance to browse local bars’ menus or search for a specific beer before they hit the town.

The best and worst leaders are often surprisingly similar, and our efforts to block the worst from power may also hinder us from getting the best ones.