Filed under: Management, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), Options Carol Bartz, the new CEO of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), has no qualms about executive transparency. During an appearance Tuesday at the Morgan Stanley Tech Conference in San Francisco, Bartz confessed that she doesn't u...

Filed under: Options, Technical Analysis, Agriculture, Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (POT) When Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (NYSE: POT) fell from its June 2008 peak of $241.62, it fell hard. The stock bottomed out at $47.54 in early December, marking an 80.3% decline from peak to nadir. The shares h...

Filed under: Presidential elections This post is part of our feature on Money Losers of 2008 . See all 20. Hillary Clinton is easily one of the most polarizing figures in U.S. politics. Perhaps it's because she combines the DNA of a female with the ruthlessness, grit, and cold-blooded calculation of...

Filed under: Scandals, Business of sports, Comic Relief This post is part of our feature on Money Losers of 2008 . See all 20. I love football players. When they're not entertaining me with their athletic prowess, they can usually be found doing something reckless or saying something ridiculous. Plu...

Filed under: Marketing and advertising, Business of sports This post is part of our feature on Money Winners of 2008 . See all 20. Everybody likes an underdog, but especially me -- I'm a die-hard Cincinnati Bengals fan, after all. So, heading into the 2007 football season, I had quite a soft spot fo...

Filed under: S and P 500, Stocks to Buy This post is part of a series featuring bargain stocks that are worth a look now. See more Cheap Stocks . If peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches are comfort food, then The J.M. Smucker Company (NYSE: SJM) is a comfort stock. You're probably familiar with the fi...

Filed under: PepsiCo (PEP), S and P 500, Stocks to Buy This post is part of a series featuring bargain stocks that are worth a look now. See more Cheap Stocks . Full disclosure: in the Pepsi challenge, I prefer Coke. In terms of investments, though, I overwhelmingly prefer PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP). The s...

Filed under: S and P 500, Stocks to Buy This post is part of a series featuring bargain stocks that are worth a look now. See more Cheap Stocks . You've probably heard that heart disease is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. I don't mean to be a total downer in bringing up this bit of tr...

Filed under: S and P 500, Stocks to Buy, Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNI) This post is part of a series featuring bargain stocks that are worth a look now. See more Cheap Stocks . Maybe a railroad stock doesn't exactly seem like the cutting edge in investments. In fact, it might even strike you as...