Archive for June, 2008

Apple's Steve Jobs and Microsoft founder Bill Gates have been trading barbs for years. Here's a look back at one of history's biggest geek rivalries.

Oil's above $143 a barrel. The dollar continues to weaken. Second quarter earnings, especially in the financial sector, are going to stink. And the employment report for June, due out this Thursday, is expected to show another month of job losses.

The effects of the foreclosure crisis are rippling throughout the country - and even the rich and famous are not immune.

Stocks were mixed Monday morning as investors weighed another selloff in auto and financial stocks, record oil and gas prices and some opportunities to scoop up recently-battered shares on the last day of the first half.

Apple's Steve Jobs and Microsoft founder Bill Gates have been trading barbs for years. Here's a look back at one of history's biggest geek rivalries.

Retail gas prices and crude oil futures rose to record highs Monday amid a backdrop of Mideast tensions and dollar concerns.

Stocks were little changed Monday morning, the last day of the quarter, as investors eyed record oil and gas prices but opted to scoop up shares hit in the recent selloff anyway.

The country's first solar power plant goes online as the pending expiration of a key tax credit clouds the future of renewable energy.

Last year I swapped out of my five-year-old smallish station wagon for a seven-seat SUV. I did it for two reasons: fitting four kids, none of whom weigh enough to sit in the front seat, into my vehicle so that I could participate in a couple of carpools; and getting up the aptly named Long Hill Road that leads from my house to the train station in the dead of winter. That's it. I didn't think about gas mileage, which of course I'm regretting now whenever I fork over $65 to fill the thing up or turn on the Discovery Channel to be reminded that I'm melting polar bears out of a habitat.

Stocks looked set to kick off a shortened week with a rough open Monday as worries about the start of a bear market and soaring oil prices rattled investors.