Boulder's high-end audio manufacturers, retailers seeing resurgence
The past decade's digital revolution wounded the home audio market.
Consumers upgraded their analog televisions to flat-panel displays…
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Prepaid Cards Lose Fees, Gain Users
Prepaid cards are one of the fastest-growing payment types, replacing the checking account for many.
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7 Memorial Day Scams Targeting the Military
NEW YORK (MainStreet)—Memorial Day is the unofficial, but traditional, start to summer but more importantly it is a day we set aside to honor the… -
Food Trends At Their Freshest in San Diego
In Southern California, here's you should eat to catch some of the hottest spring menu trends.
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Cramer Divines Vine: Old Dog, New Blog
NEW YORK (MainStreet)—Jim Cramer hates the helplessness he feels from not being in the know, so when his CNBC colleague Carl Quintanilla filmed him as… -
5 Traits of Our Unbanked and Underbanked
The underbanked are more Main Street than Skid Row, and that doesn't say good things about the system.
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Food Trends At Their Freshest in San Diego
In Southern California, here's you should eat to catch some of the hottest spring menu trends.
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10 Reasons to Stop Being a Jerk and Drink a Fruit Beer
You'll throw a withered lime into a Corona, but won't try a beer brewed with apricot? Time to rethink that.
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Media, Not Maple Leafs, Should Be Ashamed
Media outlets on both sides of the border failed to provide meaningful or necessary context alongside their coverage of Monday's Game Seven collapse in Boston.
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Is The NHL Really Still the No. 4 Sport?
The question must be asked: Is the NHL in any financial or cultural position to call itself a 'major' U.S. sport?
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7 Towns That Really Want Your Sports Team
For every North American city with a pro sports team, there's another green-eyed town just waiting to take it away.
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Morning Briefing: 10 Things You Should Know
U.S. stock futures point higher; the dollar trades above 100 yen; Carl Icahn and Southeastern propose alternative deal for Dell; Priceline issues weak guidance.
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Stocks Slip at Open as Investors Seek Fed Clarity
Investors appear on edge as they seek clarity from the Fed's asset-buying stimulus program.
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Futures Slip as Investors Seek Fed Clarity
Stock futures are lower Monday as investors await more clarity on the Federal Reserve's monetary policy outlook.
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Websense Surges On Vista Equity Buyout
Websense agrees to be taken private as PE giants continue to scoop up tech firms.
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Morning Briefing: 10 Things You Should Know
U.S. stock futures are little changed early Monday; Yahoo! to buy Tumblr; Chesapeake Energy taps a new CEO; Campbell Soup, Urban Outfitters to report earnings.
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When the Oil Boom Turns to Bust
Oil booms bust as new supplies become available. The present recovery is no different.
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Cities Need More Starbucks, Not CityTargets
By not innovating now, brick and mortar retail such as Target poorly prepares itself to respond to inevitable disruption.
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Yahoo! 'Tumbling' Down the Right but Expensive Path (Update 1)
Yahoo!'s acquisition of Tumblr is a smart idea, but at $1.1 billion it better pay off for CEO Marissa Mayer.
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Yahoo! Takes Tumblr in $1.1B Deal
Yahoo! buys the popular microblogging site and promises not to "screw it up".
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Square Stand to Change Payments ... Again
Square's recently announced Stand could reinvent the payments industry, this time from a more traditional method.
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Websense Surges On Vista Equity Buyout
Websense agrees to be taken private as PE giants continue to scoop up tech firms.
ENERGY & GREEN BUSINESS
BP Withdrawing Some Staff From Libya
Oil company BP says it is temporarily withdrawing some nonessential and non-Libyan staff from its office in Libya's capital.
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GE Capital to Pay $6.5 Billion Dividends to GE
GE Capital will pay even more in dividends to General Electric than it did last year, feeding a huge capital return to shareholders.
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Dicker: Activists in the Oil Patch
Do Icahn and Singer run the energy world? Dan Dicker talks with Jim Cramer about increased corporate activism and whether it's good for the companies involved.
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Berkshire Is an Insurance Company, Not a Nation-State: S&P
Standard & Poor's has cut Berkshire Hathaway's credit rating below that of the U.S. government.
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Dicker: Investing Opportunity in Refiners
The latest report from the International Energy Agency suggests an investment opportunity in stocks of refiners.
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Dicker: U.S. Energy Independence Is Nigh
International Energy Agency's midyear report predicts a 'supply shock' that will change the politics of oil across the globe.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Major U.S. stock markets were down Monday morning as investors exhibited caution about earnings risks as they sought clarity on stimulus plans from Federal Reserve amid officials' talk about how to wind-down the bank's quantitative easing.
The S&P 500 was down 0.13% to 1,665.31. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 0.14% to 15,333.32. The Nasdaq was down 0.09% to 3,495.49.
At 1 p.m. EDT Monday, Chicago Federal Reserve president Charles Evans, a FOMC voting member, will speak at the CFA Society Chicago Distinguished Speakers Series. New York Fed President Bill Dudley is expected to speak on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will testify on the outlook for the U.S. economy before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. Later that day, the FOMC will release minutes from its April 30 to May 1 meeting.
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