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  • Morici: China’s Role in the US Presidential Election Wednesday, 25 Jul 2012 | 11:58 AM ET

    China should be at the center of the 2012 Republican campaign for the White House. Unless Governor Romney emphasizes specific solutions for creating jobs by ending unnecessary outsourcing to the Middle Kingdom, he won’t win.

  • John Kinnucan

    Research analyst John Kinnucan is expected to plead guilty Wednesday to charges of insider trading. The charges are part of a wide-ranging probe involving hedge funds and expert networks.

  • Sandy Weill: The Guy Who Made the Bank Monster Wednesday, 25 Jul 2012 | 11:44 AM ET
    Sandy Weill

    So the inventor of the financial superstore has finally turned against his creation.

  • Home Sales Disappoint Twice Wednesday, 25 Jul 2012 | 10:43 AM ET
    Sold sign

    Sales of newly built homes fell hard in June, despite newfound optimism in the housing recovery, especially among the home builders themselves.

  • Foursquare Launches Ads With Big-Name Partners Wednesday, 25 Jul 2012 | 9:46 AM ET

    After three years of building up its user base, Foursquare is finally starting to make money — a big step for the service with over 20 million users and over 2 billion “check-ins” to businesses.

  • Asphalt From Pig Manure? Wednesday, 25 Jul 2012 | 8:48 AM ET

    Sattler, however, isn't using cow manure but pig manure in an additive he's testing which can replace up to 15 percent of asphalt. A pilot project in Missouri "shows no signs of deterioration" and "appears to be performing well after having been in place for a year."

  • Value Hunters Target Gold Fields Wednesday, 25 Jul 2012 | 6:07 AM ET

    Gold Fields is sitting at long-term support, and yesterday the bulls stepped in.

  • Last Call: How Do Like Them Apples? Tuesday, 24 Jul 2012 | 11:30 PM ET

    Apple has a rare earnings miss; Netflix shares plummet; Buffalo Wild Wings has tough time and Loeb buys more Yahoo shares.

  • Netflix

    Netflix returned to profitability in the second quarter, but the stock dipped by a double digit percent drop after hours. What went wrong?

  • Why Regulation Won't Fix Finance Tuesday, 24 Jul 2012 | 4:26 PM ET
    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission seal hangs on the facade of its building in Washington, DC.

    The Libor scandal has given rise to a new era of handwringing about our failure to fix finance with better regulation.

  • As the 10-year anniversary of the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation approaches, former U.S. congressman Michael Oxley continues in his pursuit to shed light on corporate America’s wrongdoings and make them accountable for their unethical actions.

  • Buy or Sell UPS? Here Are the Arguments Tuesday, 24 Jul 2012 | 2:52 PM ET
    UPS truck & driver

    While most agree the 105 year old company can survive the economic slowdown, analysts are in opposite camps when it comes to the stock.

  • Virgin America has upgraded its frequent flier program. How about sub-orbital space flight in exchange for some miles?

  • Settling the 'Dream Team' Debate: Marketing Edition Tuesday, 24 Jul 2012 | 1:56 PM ET
    Michael Jordan (l) in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. LeBron James (r) of the US Men's Senior National Team.

    It’s the talk of the NBA off-season: if the 1992 U.S. Men’s Olympic team, aka the Dream Team, faced off against the 2012 U.S. men’s basketball squad which would come out on top? We may never know who would win on the court, but Nielsen, whose job it is to study these things, has looked at which team wins the marketing battle off the court.

  • Consumers Began Pulling Back in June: Jarden Chairman Tuesday, 24 Jul 2012 | 1:20 PM ET

    American consumers pulled back in June but lower wage growth in China is helping margins, Jarden's executive chairman, Martin Franklin, told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” on Tuesday.

  • Ready for a Back-to-School Buying Binge? Women Are Tuesday, 24 Jul 2012 | 12:34 PM ET
    Women's Fashion Skinny Tights

    Consumers — especially women — are ready and willing to spend this back-to-school season, they are just holding out for bigger deals, according to IBM’s third-quarter spending forecast.

  • Thumbs up Thumbs down

    “When you stopped drinking, it’s like you, all of a sudden, stopped your pickup truck. But when you stop that suddenly, everything in the back of the truck comes crashing through the windshield.” That may well be an instructive metaphor for the spectacle we are witnessing in the financial services industry today.

  • Team Turnarounds by Joe Frontiera and Daniel Leidl

    Whether you're the coach of an NFL team or a CEO of a Fortune 500 - the authors of "Team Turnarounds" show how any team can ascend to the top.

  • Home Price Bottom or Bubble? Tuesday, 24 Jul 2012 | 11:23 AM ET

    Home prices rose according to the online real estate firm Zillow, a mere 0.2 percent in the second quarter of this year annually for the first time since 2007, prompting the site to call a “bottom” to home prices nationally.

  • Bulls Come Back to Baker Hughes Tuesday, 24 Jul 2012 | 6:26 AM ET

    Traders have been bullish on many names in the energy sector, and upside activity in Baker Hughes lit up our screens again yesterday.