Filed under: Forecasts, Good news, Rants and raves, Apple Inc (AAPL), Cisco Systems (CSCO), General Electric (GE), Stocks to Buy, Intuitive Surgical Inc (ISRG), Recession, American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) If there is anything that makes me think we could be close to a market bottom, it is all the peo...

Not that Jimmy Fallon won’t do well in the 12:37 time slot; he will probably do quite well for a while, as everyone is anxious for something new at that time. No, the beginning of the end is simply the start of a change in the viewing habits of the NBC core audience. (How many people that comprise...

Not too long ago, executives from IBM, Wal-Mart and General Electric might have seemed a motley crew of experts for a Congressional hearing about the electric grid and clean power. But yesterday the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming heard testimony from that very crew,...

Filed under: General Electric (GE), Pfizer (PFE), Advanced Micro Dev (AMD), Western Union (WU), Recession Yesterday, several of America's largest and most well-know companies cut people at an alarming rate. The liquidation of Circuit City could put a total of 30,000 employees onto the street. Pfizer...

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., Jan. 15 NBC dodged questions about its decision to do away with scripted programming at 10 on weeknights to make room for a Jay Leno talk show....

Filed under: General Electric (GE), Diageo plc (DEO), Federal Natl Mtge (FNM), Anadarko Petroleum (APC), Wells Fargo (WFC), Chasing Value, Anglo Amer ADR (AAUK), Stocks to Buy, Intuitive Surgical Inc (ISRG), Annaly Capital Management (NLY) Anybody have capital gains to show this year? I didn't think...

The Dunbar High School girls' track team thrives with hard work, a trait gleaned from Coach Marvin Parker, who picks them up starting at 3:30 a.m. three days a week....

Thursday Evening News Roundup You know, after my being up all night, a short nap does not hit the spot like it used to. It takes some time for cobwebs to clear. So if most of what I wrote below doesn’t make any sense, feel free to write it off to a lack of sleep. The stock market fell for the ...

General Electric's new Energy Smart CFL.fluorescent light is one of those things that makes you scratch your head and wonder: How the hell do they do that? A fluorescent spiral lamp into a......

Was it Arthur C. Clarke who said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic? If he was correct, it would follow that GE's new Energy Smart CFL (compact fluorescent light) bulb is most magical. A true product of "ecomagination" (their word), the imagineers (Disney's wor...