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The focus turns to earnings from retailers this week. Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF) and Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN) kicked things off last week. The former posted lower earnings per share in line with estimates, while the latter narrowly beat EPS expectations but revenues fell short. Here is a look...

And they pulled it off in just one quarter. According to the Washington Post, startup investments grew to $6.57 billion in the fourth quarter (October through December) – up from $5.52 billion during the same quarter in 2010. That's a lot of dough, but when you consider the amount of startups...

How many idiots does it take to screw in a light bulb? If by “light bulb” you mean Lowe's good will, and by “screw in” you mean to just straight screw, then the answer is: all those in the company's media-buying department. The “brightest” bulbs in said department decided to yank company...

And all this time I thought I had made the right career choice. But today I learned otherwise. The Washington Post has a wonderful photo gallery and a spectacular video showcasing what can only be described as the most fun event in the history of fun events: Puppy Day at GMU Law School. For those...

Halloween and the Day of the Dead arrive this week. If analysts' forecasts are correct, there are only a few earnings reports that may scare investors. For instance, Alpha Natural Resources (NYSE: ANR) earnings are predicted to have fallen 93.1% year over year to $0.58 per share. Allstate (NYSE:...

The Washington Post had two articles on their latest poll. The first focused on the Presidential horse race. The second noted that US adults disapprove of congress and then went on to discuss other results. At the very end of the the second article follows Obama's proposal to raise taxes on...

Quarterly reports of note scheduled for this week include those from Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE: ADM), General Motors (NYSE: GM), MasterCard (NYSE: MA), Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), all of which are expected to post earnings growth, as well as Pfizer (NYSE: PFE)...

The new loans will be offered at a low 3.5 percent interest rate and a repayment schedule as long as 30 years, concessions meant to “decisively improve” Greece's debt load, according to the announcement of the plan. The same loan terms will be offered to Ireland and Portugal, euro-zone nations that...

Merely days after I speculated that Sony (NYSE: SNE) was the inspiration for the numerous hacker attacks that have occurred over the past six weeks, the Washington Post reports that Minecraft, Eve Online, League of Legends and Escapist Magazine have been taken down by a denial-of-service attack....

German Parliament voted in favor of approving another bailout for Greece Friday, supporting Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble's request that private creditors share the burden of any potential loss. Schaeuble has argued that Greece should refinance its current bonds for bonds with longer...

Today is a blow for bloggers everywhere, as the New Jersey Supreme Court has fired a death blow at bloggers. According to the Washington Post, New Jersey's shield law does not apply to bloggers, as it does not apply message boards. These rights are afforded to mainstream journalists. The case...

Belarus is suffering an economic crisis. Is Russia to blame, or just making the best out of an unfortunate situation? On Monday night, Belarus depreciated its currency 36% against the U.S. dollar. Yet, apparently, that will not be enough. Russia's VTB Group stated that Belarus will need to weaken...

Fifty years from now, the world may look back on Trove as the media service that changed the way the world receives its news. Created as a project by the company's WaPo Labs, Trove.com is a personalized news site that scours 10,000 relevant news feeds from across the Internet for stories that...

In his testimony in front of the Senate Banking Committee today, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke urged lawmakers to refrain from using the federal debt ceiling as a “bargaining chip”, Bloomberg reports. The debt ceiling—which presently sits at $14.3 trillion—will, according to Treasury...

Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) will be reporting first-quarter 2011 results Friday before the market opens. Analysts are looking for the company to post earnings of $4.35 per share on revenue of $1.1 billion. That's down from $4.91 per share on $1.2 billion in the same period of last year. The...