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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 2:03am EST
Its coffee shops of the past are gone, but the chain can rebound by slowing down.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 1:59am EST
Legislation pending in Congress could spur still more people to choose Chapter 13 to save their homes.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 1:57am EST
Here’s one way to deal with home prices that remain stubbornly high despite the recent downturn: Buy your second home first.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 1:55am EST
McDonald’s assault on Starbucks’s coffee hegemony is a wrongheaded strategy, Chris Dannen writes.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 1:52am EST
I embarked on my executive pursuit of snowboarding determined to drop in, air it out and stomp a ride.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 1:52am EST
Kenneth D. Lewis has gambled on bold acquisitions, but few of his bets match a deal to buy Countrywide Financial Corporation.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 1:51am EST
The financial giant is in talks to sell a stake to a Chinese bank and other investors, people briefed on the plan said.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 1:42am EST
The city is suing 21 of the nation’s largest banks and financial institutions, accusing them of knowingly plunging it into a financial crisis.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 1:40am EST
Tereson Dupuy, founder of Mother of Eden, thinks reusable diapers are having their back-to-the-future moment.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 1:38am EST
Tiffany’s weak holiday sales sent jitters through the luxury-goods industry, which had seemed invulnerable to the economic slowdown.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 1:36am EST
American credit card debt is growing at the fastest rate in years, a fact that may signal coming trouble for the banks that issue them.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 1:33am EST
The deal could be the first step toward a possible broader alliance between Chrysler and Nissan of Japan.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 1:30am EST
Planned weekend talks could promise a major break in the entertainment industry’s labor troubles.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 12:41am EST
Meat and milk from cloned animals seem to pose no special health risks, said a report released by the European Food Safety Agency. It was a first step toward the eventual sale of such products within the European Union.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 12:19am EST
New York State prosecutors are investigating whether Wall Street banks withheld information about the risks posed by investments linked to subprime mortgages.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 12:18am EST
Can Europe’s economy stay on track even if the U.S. economy goes off the rails? This old question is being asked with new urgency across the Continent.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 12:18am EST
Northern Rock, one of Europe’s biggest casualties of the credit crisis, sold some of its mortgage portfolio to JPMorgan Chase.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 12:18am EST
The Hollywood writers’ strike is threatening a beloved Tinseltown institution: the swag bag of free luxury items.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 12:12am EST
Shares in the Italian oil company Eni dipped Friday following an unconfirmed report that Kazakhstan was poised to cancel a contract to develop the Kashagan field.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 12:03am EST
A slowing economy and a fresh batch of financial problems for banks put the major indexes on track for one of their worst yearly starts.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 12:02am EST
The Liberty Media Corporation, the entertainment and Internet retailing company controlled by the billionaire John C. Malone, purchased 14 million shares of IAC/InterActiveCorp, the company controlled by Barry Diller, for $339.5 million.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 12:01am EST
My husband and I struggle to stay in sync financially, but we get stuck in a rut whenever we look toward the 5-, 10- or even 20-year horizon.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 12:00am EST
Record oil prices widened the United States trade deficit in November as the cost of imported petroleum outpaced a modest rise in exports.
