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  • Use Philanthropy to Win New Business

    WSJ.com Video - Small Business
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:56 am
    Philanthropy can be a effective way to meet prospects and win new business if done right. Dow Jones Wealth Adviser's Veronica Dagher shares some tips on how advisers can do so.

  • 'Premium Coach' Gets Popular

    WSJ.com: The Middle Seat
    26 Jan 2012 | 11:47 am
    There is an increasingly popular offering from airlines: a mid-tier class called premium economy. But every airline has a different take on what passengers get for the extra money.

  • Coach's Shares Should Remain in Fashion

    WSJ.com: Ahead of the Tape
    23 Jan 2012 | 12:15 am
    Revenue growth has been tough for the luxury-goods sector, but the leather-goods company is positioned to expand.

  • Confessions of an iPhone Data Hog

    WSJ.com: Personal Technology
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:17 am
    Our reporter discovers her iPhone movie-watching and music-streaming has unexpectedly pushed her into the top 5% of AT&T's data users.

  • The World's Longest Flight, in Coach

    WSJ.com: The Middle Seat
    24 Jan 2012 | 4:56 pm
    Long-haul nonstop flights like the 15-hour one from Sydney to Dallas are increasingly popular among business travelers and high-end tourists who are willing to pay more to avoid a layover.
 
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  • Pentagon Seeks Mightier Bomb vs. Iran

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:20 am
    Pentagon war planners have concluded that their largest conventional bomb isn't yet capable of destroying Iran's most heavily fortified underground facilities, and are stepping up efforts to make it more powerful.

  • Facebook Gets Ready For Its IPO Filing

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:41 am
    Facebook could file papers for an IPO as early as next week and is looking at a valuation of $75 billion to $100 billion. The social network is close to picking Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriter.

  • Obama Details Plan to Curb Tuition

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:45 pm
    Obama unveiled his most ambitious effort yet to address public concern about soaring college costs, but he left unclear key details on cost and implementation that could trigger resistance to the proposal.

  • Madonna: 'I Know That Feeling of Devastation'

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:06 pm
    The singer, actress and director on "W.E.," the Super Bowl and her new album.

  • How Much Is Facebook Worth?

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:45 pm
    How small investors can get exposure to the social-networking giant before its IPO.
 
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    WSJ.com: What's News US

  • As Economy Posts Growth, Worry Lingers

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:15 am
    The U.S. economy grew at its fastest pace in 18 months in the fourth quarter, but underlying weak demand pointed to slower growth in coming months.

  • More Fined in Greenlight Case

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:43 am
    The FSA fined a former compliance officer at Greenlight Capital £130,000 for insufficient oversight in the sale of Punch Taverns shares ahead of a planned equity raising. A J.P. Morgan Cazenove employee was also fined.

  • Delta Weighs a US Air Deal

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:37 am
    Delta Air Lines is studying US Airways as a possible acquisition target as U.S. carriers prepare for a new round of consolidation.

  • Greece Edges Toward Debt Deal

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:13 am
    Greece and its private-sector creditors appeared to edge closer to a long-awaited agreement over a €100 billion debt write-down on government bonds.

  • Ford Motor Profit Lifted by U.S. Sales, Tax Gain

    28 Jan 2012 | 2:49 am
    Ford reported a record fourth-quarter profit on a one-time tax allowance, though slower sales in Europe, growing pains in Asia and heightened competition at home signaled greater turbulence ahead.
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    WSJ.com US News

  • As Economy Posts Growth, Worry Lingers

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:15 am
    The U.S. economy grew at its fastest pace in 18 months in the fourth quarter, but underlying weak demand pointed to slower growth in coming months.

  • Pentagon Seeks Mightier Bomb vs. Iran

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:12 am
    Pentagon war planners have concluded that their largest conventional bomb isn't yet capable of destroying Iran's most heavily fortified underground facilities, and are stepping up efforts to make it more powerful.

  • Giving Romney a Run for His Money

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:20 pm
    President Obama never mentioned Mitt Romney in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, but his message was meant to let him have a good Buffetting.

  • Floating Bases Enhance Capacity For Quick Strikes

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:07 pm
    Within the president's defense-budget plan is funding for an intriguing new item: a floating drone base that also could be used as a launching pad for commandos.

  • Retaliation Fears Spur Anonymity in Internet Case

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:06 pm
    U.S. law-enforcement officials say they are increasingly concerned about cyber-retaliation against agents and prosecutors after they say people linked to the hacker collective Anonymous targeted the private life of a government official investigating WikiLeaks.
 
 
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    WSJ.com: World News

  • U.K. Police Arrest Four in Bribery Probe

    28 Jan 2012 | 6:09 am
    British police said they arrested four people in connection with an investigation into potential police bribery, a probe that is part of a wide-ranging crackdown on illegal news-gathering tactics in the British media.

  • Pentagon Seeks Mightier Bomb vs. Iran

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:20 am
    Pentagon war planners have concluded that their largest conventional bomb isn't yet capable of destroying Iran's most heavily fortified underground facilities, and are stepping up efforts to make it more powerful.

  • Battles Put Damascus On the Edge

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:12 am
    Syrian dissident soldiers teamed up with civilians to occupy neighborhoods on Damascus's outskirts, a development that could move the capital toward chaos.

  • Karzai in U.K. for Talks With Cameron

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:03 am
    Afghan President Hamid Karzai is in Britain for talks with Prime Minister David Cameron, a day after France announced it would withdraw its troops a year earlier than the 2014 date agreed by NATO.

  • ECB Chief Says Bank Helped Avert Disaster

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:36 am
    Mario Draghi told the World Economic Forum on Friday that the ECB's actions in December had averted financial disaster, and cited evidence of improvement in euro-zone markets in recent weeks.
 
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    WSJ.com: Most Viewed Day Asia

  • Pentagon Seeks Mightier Bomb vs. Iran

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:20 am
    Pentagon war planners have concluded that their largest conventional bomb isn't yet capable of destroying Iran's most heavily fortified underground facilities, and are stepping up efforts to make it more powerful.

  • Facebook Gets Ready For Its IPO Filing

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:41 am
    Facebook could file papers for an IPO as early as next week and is looking at a valuation of $75 billion to $100 billion. The social network is close to picking Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriter.

  • This Year, Davos Doesn't Deliver

    27 Jan 2012 | 10:42 pm
    One of the World Economic Forum attractions to its participants has been a sense that they were helping to tackle the globe's problems. This time, the Davos braintrust offered precious little advice, writes Francesco Guerrera.

  • How Much Is Facebook Worth?

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:45 pm
    How small investors can get exposure to the social-networking giant before its IPO.

  • Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Global Warming

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:18 pm
    There's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to 'decarbonize' the world's economy.
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    WSJ.com: What's News Asia

  • China's Top Auditor Warns of Fiscal, Financial Risks

    28 Jan 2012 | 6:35 am
    China's national auditor has warned of potential risks in the fiscal and financial sectors this year, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported, citing the auditor.

  • U.K. Police Arrest Four in Bribery Probe

    28 Jan 2012 | 6:09 am
    British police said they arrested four people in connection with an investigation into potential police bribery, a probe that is part of a wide-ranging crackdown on illegal news-gathering tactics in the British media.

  • Djokovic Earns Final With Nadal --- Again

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:48 am
    After nearly five hours of tennis, Novak Djokovic outlasted Andy Murray in a five-set Australian Open semifinal to set up his third straight Grand Slam final meeting with Rafael Nadal.

  • Azarenka Wins Australian title

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:42 am
    Victoria Azarenka routed Maria Sharapova 6-3, 6-0 to win the Australian Open women's title and secure the No. 1 ranking, all in her first Grand Slam final.

  • Pentagon Seeks Mightier Bomb vs. Iran

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:20 am
    Pentagon war planners have concluded that their largest conventional bomb isn't yet capable of destroying Iran's most heavily fortified underground facilities, and are stepping up efforts to make it more powerful.
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    WSJ.com: Asia Home

  • China's Top Auditor Warns of Fiscal, Financial Risks

    28 Jan 2012 | 6:53 am
    China's national auditor has warned of potential risks in the fiscal and financial sectors this year, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported, citing the auditor.

  • Rebels Kill Four at Indian Polling Station

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:19 am
    Police say a separatist rebel in northeast India opened fire at a police station Saturday where election voting was being held and killed four people before he was shot dead.

  • As Economy Posts Growth, Worry Lingers

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:15 am
    The U.S. economy grew at its fastest pace in 18 months in the fourth quarter, but underlying weak demand pointed to slower growth in coming months.

  • Karzai in U.K. for Talks With Cameron

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:03 am
    Afghan President Hamid Karzai is in Britain for talks with Prime Minister David Cameron, a day after France announced it would withdraw its troops a year earlier than the 2014 date agreed by NATO.

  • Lagarde: Euro Zone Needs Clear, Simple Firewall

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    The euro zone needs a "clear, simple firewall" to restore international trust in it, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said.
 
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    WSJ.com: Most Viewed Month Asia

  • No More Résumés, Say Some Firms

    25 Jan 2012 | 1:25 pm
    Some companies are skipping résumés, saying the staid requirement doesn't provide much depth about a job candidate.

  • What Is SOPA? A Guide to Understanding the Online Piracy Bill

    19 Jan 2012 | 9:19 pm
    It will undermine free speech and due process, says one side. It will protect America's creative class from thieves, says the other. But what's really in the Stop Online Piracy Act?

  • Wikipedia, Google Go Black in Protest

    18 Jan 2012 | 12:54 pm
    Wikipedia and other popular websites converted their homepages into virtual protest banners early Wednesday as part of an effort to stop Internet piracy legislation that is being considered by the U.S. Congress.

  • Chinese See New Year as Golden

    18 Jan 2012 | 6:34 am
    The Chinese have been loading up like never before on gold ahead of the Lunar New Year. And as the Chinese have gotten richer, gold—in the form of jewelry, coins and even bars—is becoming the gift of choice.

  • Fracas Curtails China iPhone Sales

    13 Jan 2012 | 11:23 am
    Apple said it would temporarily stop selling the newest model of its iPhone in its five retail stores in China after unruly customers in Beijing led police to seal off a store there and after the phone sold out elsewhere.
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    WSJ.com: Most Viewed Week Asia

  • Facebook Gets Ready For Its IPO Filing

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:41 am
    Facebook could file papers for an IPO as early as next week and is looking at a valuation of $75 billion to $100 billion. The social network is close to picking Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriter.

  • Malaysia's Anwar Presses On

    27 Jan 2012 | 1:01 am
    Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said he isn't worried about prosecutors' move to appeal his acquittal of sodomy and expressed confidence it won't derail his bid to unseat the current government.

  • Merkel Is Firm on Austerity, Bailout Limits

    26 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    Germany's Merkel, criticized for her government's prescriptions of austerity as a cure for the euro zone's debt crisis, told the World Economic Forum that labor-market reforms also were needed.

  • No More Résumés, Say Some Firms

    25 Jan 2012 | 1:25 pm
    Some companies are skipping résumés, saying the staid requirement doesn't provide much depth about a job candidate.

  • Big Solar Storm Hits Earth

    25 Jan 2012 | 12:46 pm
    The largest solar storm in almost a decade swept across Earth on Tuesday, in a harbinger of fiercer outbursts from the Sun predicted for the year ahead.
 
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    WSJ.com: Most Emailed Month Asia

  • Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Global Warming

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:18 pm
    There's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to 'decarbonize' the world's economy.

  • Made Better in Japan

    27 Jan 2012 | 3:43 pm
    For decades, Japan simply imported wares of foreign cultures, but recession has led to invention. The country has begun creating the finest American denim, French cuisine and Italian espresso in the world.

  • No More Résumés, Say Some Firms

    25 Jan 2012 | 1:25 pm
    Some companies are skipping résumés, saying the staid requirement doesn't provide much depth about a job candidate.

  • Meet the Marriage Killer

    25 Jan 2012 | 11:42 am
    It's more common than adultery and potentially as toxic, so why is it so hard to stop nagging?

  • The New American Divide

    23 Jan 2012 | 8:08 am
    The ideal of an "American way of life" is fading as the working class falls further away from institutions like marriage and religion and the upper class becomes more isolated. Charles Murray on what's cleaving America, and why.
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    WSJ.com: About China

  • IMF Reviewing Whether Yuan Still 'Substantially Undervalued'

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:34 pm
    The IMF is reviewing whether China's currency should still be considered "substantially undervalued," as the yuan has appreciated more than 8% in the last year and the fund is developing a new method of assessing global currencies.

  • FBI Search Offices of 'Reverse Merger' Player

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:21 am
    FBI agents searched the New York offices of private-equity investment and corporate-advisory firm New York Global Group, which has played a role in Chinese companies that list in the U.S. through reverse mergers.

  • China Chides EU Over Iran Ban

    26 Jan 2012 | 6:38 am
    The Chinese government criticized the European Union for banning oil imports from Iran, underscoring the difficulty the U.S. faces in creating a wedge between Iran and China, one of the largest buyers of Iranian crude.

  • Clashes in China's Tibetan Areas Claim Another Life

    26 Jan 2012 | 5:22 am
    Security forces in a restive Tibetan region of China killed a second person in as many days, according to state-run media, amid intensifying riots and international criticism that could overshadow a U.S. visit next month by Vice President Xi Jinping.

  • China's Heavy-Hitters Stay Home From Davos

    25 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
    China appears to have eased back on its presence at this week's World Economic Forum gathering in Davos, as the event coincides with the biggest Chinese holiday of the year.
 
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    WSJ.com: Managing in Asia

  • Harvest Capital Makes Bold Move on Property

    8 Jan 2012 | 9:02 am
    Harvest Capital Partners CEO Ren Rong talks about his management strategies at the real-estate fund, which made a bold move two years ago—out of China's still-rising residential sector and into what has since become the hot retail sector.

  • Need for Efficiency in China's Banks

    18 Dec 2011 | 5:24 pm
    Shenzhen Development Bank President Richard Jackson Beijing's measures to slow credit growth will check the proliferation of nonperforming loans, but they come with risks in the long run.

  • Genting Takes Family Approach to Casinos

    11 Dec 2011 | 10:47 pm
    Genting Chairman Lim Kok Thay believes that a casino linked with wholesome entertainment is a better business proposition, both financially and politically, than a pure gambling den.

  • Carlyle's Asia Approach: Think Local

    4 Dec 2011 | 6:36 pm
    Carlyle's X.D. Yang leads a private-equity team charged with bolstering the success of entrepreneurs by finding skilled managers and building relationships.

  • Maybank Expands Southeast Asia Role

    27 Nov 2011 | 3:58 pm
    As most global banks set their sights on expanding in Southeast Asia and the rest of Asia, Malayan Banking also looks to consolidate and expand its presence to take advantage of the growing importance of the region.
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    WSJ.com: Most Emailed Day Europe

  • Facebook Gets Ready For Its IPO Filing

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:41 am
    Facebook could file papers for an IPO as early as next week and is looking at a valuation of $75 billion to $100 billion. The social network is close to picking Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriter.

  • What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind?

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:50 pm
    Children today reach puberty earlier and adulthood later. The result: a lot of teenage weirdness. Alison Gopnik on how we might readjust adolescence.

  • Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Global Warming

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:18 pm
    There's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to 'decarbonize' the world's economy.

  • Made Better in Japan

    27 Jan 2012 | 3:43 pm
    For decades, Japan simply imported wares of foreign cultures, but recession has led to invention. The country has begun creating the finest American denim, French cuisine and Italian espresso in the world.

  • The Jet Set

    27 Jan 2012 | 2:38 pm
    Thomas Flohr's upstart VistaJet is modeling itself as a luxury designer brand, featuring graffiti-tagged planes, chic stewardess uniforms and a foxy top exec who happens to be the owner's 25-year-old daughter.
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    WSJ.com: Most Viewed Day Europe

  • Pentagon Seeks Mightier Bomb vs. Iran

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:20 am
    Pentagon war planners have concluded that their largest conventional bomb isn't yet capable of destroying Iran's most heavily fortified underground facilities, and are stepping up efforts to make it more powerful.

  • Facebook Gets Ready For Its IPO Filing

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:41 am
    Facebook could file papers for an IPO as early as next week and is looking at a valuation of $75 billion to $100 billion. The social network is close to picking Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriter.

  • Spain's Jobless Rate Nears 23%

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:34 am
    A new downturn for the Spanish economy has led to a sharp escalation of its unemployment rate, data showed Friday, lending new urgency to Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's plans to overhaul one of the region's largest ailing economies.

  • Greece Edges Toward Debt Deal

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:13 am
    Greece and its private-sector creditors appeared to edge closer to a long-awaited agreement over a €100 billion debt write-down on government bonds.

  • How Much Is Facebook Worth?

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:45 pm
    How small investors can get exposure to the social-networking giant before its IPO.
 
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    WSJ.com: Europe Home

  • As Economy Posts Growth, Worry Lingers

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:15 am
    The U.S. economy grew at its fastest pace in 18 months in the fourth quarter, but underlying weak demand pointed to slower growth in coming months.

  • Battles Put Damascus On the Edge

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:12 am
    Syrian dissident soldiers teamed up with civilians to occupy neighborhoods on Damascus's outskirts, a development that could move the capital toward chaos.

  • Pentagon Seeks Mightier Bomb vs. Iran

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:12 am
    Pentagon war planners have concluded that their largest conventional bomb isn't yet capable of destroying Iran's most heavily fortified underground facilities, and are stepping up efforts to make it more powerful.

  • Karzai in U.K. for Talks With Cameron

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:03 am
    Afghan President Hamid Karzai is in Britain for talks with Prime Minister David Cameron, a day after France announced it would withdraw its troops a year earlier than the 2014 date agreed by NATO.

  • Calls for EU Control Over Greek Budget

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:01 am
    Frustrated with the slow pace of implementation of budget reforms in Greece, Germany is leading a push to force Athens to cede some control over its budget decisions to Europe as a condition of disbursing the next tranche of international aid.
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    WSJ.com: Most Emailed Week Europe

  • Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Global Warming

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:18 pm
    There's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to 'decarbonize' the world's economy.

  • Made Better in Japan

    27 Jan 2012 | 3:43 pm
    For decades, Japan simply imported wares of foreign cultures, but recession has led to invention. The country has begun creating the finest American denim, French cuisine and Italian espresso in the world.

  • SAP Targets Oracle

    26 Jan 2012 | 8:32 pm
    SAP Chairman Hasso Plattner has been pursuing a breakthrough in memory-chip performance that could determine the fate of the software giant.

  • Your Résumé vs. Oblivion

    25 Jan 2012 | 1:27 pm
    Companies inundated with job applications are relying on technology to winnow out less-qualified candidates.

  • No More Résumés, Say Some Firms

    25 Jan 2012 | 1:25 pm
    Some companies are skipping résumés, saying the staid requirement doesn't provide much depth about a job candidate.
 
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    WSJ.com: Most Viewed Week Europe

  • Facebook Gets Ready For Its IPO Filing

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:41 am
    Facebook could file papers for an IPO as early as next week and is looking at a valuation of $75 billion to $100 billion. The social network is close to picking Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriter.

  • Megaupload Executives Get Bail

    26 Jan 2012 | 9:34 pm
    Megaupload.com executives Bram van der Kolk and Finn Batato were granted bail by a New Zealand judge as they await possible extradition to the U.S.

  • No More Résumés, Say Some Firms

    25 Jan 2012 | 1:25 pm
    Some companies are skipping résumés, saying the staid requirement doesn't provide much depth about a job candidate.

  • Con Artist in Sting That Cost Google Millions

    25 Jan 2012 | 11:48 am
    Over four months in 2009, a federal prisoner – and convicted con artist – was the lead actor in a government sting targeting Google that yielded one of the largest business forfeitures in U.S. history.

  • Meet the Marriage Killer

    25 Jan 2012 | 11:42 am
    It's more common than adultery and potentially as toxic, so why is it so hard to stop nagging?
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    WSJ.com: Most Viewed Month Europe

  • No More Résumés, Say Some Firms

    25 Jan 2012 | 1:25 pm
    Some companies are skipping résumés, saying the staid requirement doesn't provide much depth about a job candidate.

  • Hackers-for-Hire Are Easy to Find

    23 Jan 2012 | 4:00 pm
    A feud between two billionaire brothers -- one claiming the other commissioned hackers to snoop into his email for just a few hundred dollars -- suggests how simple online espionage has become.

  • Inside the Lavish Life of Web's Mr. Dotcom

    23 Jan 2012 | 12:32 am
    Kim Dotcom, the hulking Internet entrepreneur arrested Thursday at his New Zealand mansion, didn't lay low despite his past. Rather, he openly lived a lavish lifestyle.

  • U.S. Shuts Offshore File-Share 'Locker'

    21 Jan 2012 | 5:01 am
    The FBI shut down the popular file-sharing website Megaupload amid a debate in Washington over online piracy legislation.

  • Can Bankruptcy Filing Save Kodak?

    20 Jan 2012 | 8:21 am
    Eastman Kodak hopes to slash what it owes retirees and force much bigger technology companies to pay to use its patents during its journey through bankruptcy court.
 
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    WSJ.com: About UK

  • U.K. Bill Proposes New Crisis Powers

    27 Jan 2012 | 10:46 pm
    The U.K.'s chancellor of the exchequer would get new powers to direct the Bank of England when taxpayers' money is at risk and there is a serious risk to financial stability,

  • A New Olympic Order

    5 Jan 2012 | 4:28 pm
    Four years ago, the 2008 Olympics marked a turning point for China, which won more gold medals than any other country. This summer in London, China is expected to solidify its dominance while the U.S. loses ground.
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    WSJ.com: Earnings

  • P&G's Profit Drops 49%

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
    Procter & Gamble posted a sharply lower profit for its fiscal second-quarter reflecting higher commodity costs and a hefty write-down for past acquisitions, including its $57 billion megadeal for Gillette.

  • Ford Motor Profit Lifted by U.S. Sales, Tax Gain

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
    Ford reported a record fourth-quarter profit on a one-time tax allowance, though slower sales in Europe, growing pains in Asia and heightened competition at home signaled greater turbulence ahead.

  • UPS Changes Accounting Method

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:34 pm
    United Parcel Service said it will record an $827 million pretax charge in the fourth quarter as it changes the way it accounts for gains and losses in its pension plans.

  • Honeywell Books Loss on Pension Costs

    27 Jan 2012 | 3:50 pm
    Honeywell posted a $310 million quarterly loss on pension-related costs, but saw robust demand for its aerospace and control-systems products.

  • Chevron's Profit Edges Lower

    27 Jan 2012 | 3:43 pm
    Chevron posted a 3.2% drop in profit, as a loss at its refining-and-marketing business offset higher oil prices.
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    WSJ.com: US Business

  • Facebook Gets Ready For Its IPO Filing

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:41 am
    Facebook could file papers for an IPO as early as next week and is looking at a valuation of $75 billion to $100 billion. The social network is close to picking Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriter.

  • Delta Weighs a US Air Deal

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:37 am
    Delta Air Lines is studying US Airways as a possible acquisition target as U.S. carriers prepare for a new round of consolidation.

  • EU Opens Probe of Air Venture

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:33 am
    European regulators opened a new probe into a trans-Atlantic joint venture involving Air France-KLM, Delta Air Lines and Alitalia, members of the SkyTeam carrier alliance.

  • Ford Motor Profit Lifted by U.S. Sales, Tax Gain

    28 Jan 2012 | 2:49 am
    Ford reported a record fourth-quarter profit on a one-time tax allowance, though slower sales in Europe, growing pains in Asia and heightened competition at home signaled greater turbulence ahead.

  • News Corp. in Talks to Hire Bloomberg Executive

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:20 pm
    News Corp. is in serious talks to hire former Bloomberg chief executive Lex Fenwick to be the new chief of Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones.
 
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    WSJ.com: Economy

  • As Economy Posts Growth, Worry Lingers

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:15 am
    The U.S. economy grew at its fastest pace in 18 months in the fourth quarter, but underlying weak demand pointed to slower growth in coming months.

  • ECB Chief Says Bank Helped Avert Disaster

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:36 am
    Mario Draghi told the World Economic Forum on Friday that the ECB's actions in December had averted financial disaster, and cited evidence of improvement in euro-zone markets in recent weeks.

  • Greece Edges Toward Debt Deal

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:13 am
    Greece and its private-sector creditors appeared to edge closer to a long-awaited agreement over a €100 billion debt write-down on government bonds.

  • Hope Is Rising for Mortgage Accord

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:26 pm
    New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said he is confident his main concern with a pending settlement of alleged bank- foreclosure abuses would be resolved, but he didn't commit to participating in an agreement.

  • Start-Ups Look for Shortcut From Farm to Table

    27 Jan 2012 | 2:29 pm
    A host of Silicon Valley start-ups are creating ways to buy food directly from local food producers, cutting out grocery stores and some of the middlemen..
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    WSJ.com: Health

  • Express Scripts' Lipitor Move Shows Pressure on Pfizer

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:48 pm
    Pharmacy-benefit manager Express Scripts will soon make an adjustment that raises out-of-pocket costs for some customers filling prescriptions of Pfizer's cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor, underscoring the drug maker's challenge of keeping sales high in the face of generic competition.

  • FDA Approves Amylin's Diabetes Drug

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:49 pm
    The FDA approved Amylin Pharmaceuticals' diabetes drug Bydureon after a prolonged regulatory process to address safety concerns.

  • FDA Approves Pfizer Cancer Treatment

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:29 pm
    U.S. regulators approved Pfizer's Inlyta drug for treating advanced kidney cancer, the latest of several drugs to be approved for the disease in recent years.

  • WellPoint Shakes Up Doctors' Pay

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:09 pm
    The nation's second-largest health insurer, WellPoint, is shaking up its approach to paying doctors, putting a major investment behind the idea that spending more for better primary care can save money down the road.

  • Scrushy Pressed for Cash

    26 Jan 2012 | 8:33 pm
    Richard Scrushy is getting out of jail earlier than expected following a 2006 bribery conviction, but the founder of HealthSouth won't be free of creditors any time soon.
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    WSJ.com: Law

  • Hope Is Rising for Mortgage Accord

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
    New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said he is confident his main concern with a pending settlement of alleged bank- foreclosure abuses would be resolved, but he didn't commit to participating in an agreement.

  • Former Perelman Associate Wins $16 Million Award

    27 Jan 2012 | 5:13 pm
    A jury awarded $16 million in damages to Donald Drapkin, a longtime business associate of financier Ronald Perelman, in a clash over millions of dollars in payments allegedly owed under agreements reached when the former executive left Mr. Perelman's company nearly five years ago.

  • Prisons Strain Under Aging Inmates

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:02 am
    The fastest-growing population in federal and state prisons are those 55 and older, a trend that is forcing cash-strapped local governments to wrestle with the growing cost of caring for the aging inmates.

  • Mets Owners Seek Dismissal of Madoff Lawsuit

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:06 am
    The owners of the New York Mets baseball team asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by the court-appointed trustee seeking to recover money for victims of convicted Ponzi-scheme-operator Bernard Madoff.

  • Megaupload Executives Get Bail

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
    Megaupload.com executives Bram van der Kolk and Finn Batato were granted bail by a New Zealand judge as they await possible extradition to the U.S.
 
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    WSJ.com: Management

  • News Corp. in Talks to Hire Bloomberg Executive

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:20 pm
    News Corp. is in serious talks to hire former Bloomberg chief executive Lex Fenwick to be the new chief of Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones.

  • New RIM Chief Plots Overhaul

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:58 pm
    RIM's newly appointed CEO said he has embarked on a wide-ranging turnaround of the BlackBerry maker's operations that involves putting founder Mike Lazaridis in a more "visionary" role.

  • The CEO Bankruptcy Bonus

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:53 pm
    As companies struggle through bankruptcy court, many still pay significant bonuses to top executives – despite a federal rule designed to curb such pay.

  • Carrefour Courting New CEO

    26 Jan 2012 | 9:35 pm
    French retailer Carrefour is in negotiations to hire clothing executive Georges Plassat to replace its current CEO, Lars Olofsson. Olofsson's tenure at Carrefour has been marred by profit warnings, strategic about-faces and a failed merger project.

  • 3M Feels Heat Over Succession

    26 Jan 2012 | 9:16 pm
    3M directors are split over whether to extend the term of CEO George Buckley, whose contract expires in a month.
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    WSJ.com: Media & Marketing

  • How a Parking Garage Stymied a Hollywood Super Agent

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Ari Emanuel's agency has quietly agreed to pay the owner of an office building in Beverly Hills about $30 million to resolve a dispute over WME's refusal to occupy the building even though it inherited a 20-year lease on it.

  • Target Fights 'Showrooming'

    24 Jan 2012 | 8:24 am
    Target is asking suppliers for help in thwarting "showrooming"—that is, when shoppers come into a store to see a product in person, only to buy it from a rival online, frequently at a lower price.

  • New E-Books Land in Bargain Bin

    23 Jan 2012 | 7:59 pm
    Publishers are experimenting with 99-cent temporary prices on e-books, in hopes of persuading readers to sample a wider range of authors.

  • Hispanic Airwaves to Get More Crowded

    22 Jan 2012 | 11:09 pm
    News Corp. is teaming up with a Colombian TV company to create a Spanish-language broadcast network for the U.S., reflecting a rush to cash in on the booming Hispanic population.
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    WSJ.com: Personal Technology

  • iPad as Sous Chef

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:17 pm
    Turn your magic slate into the ultimate cook's companion

  • Confessions of an iPhone Data Hog

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:17 am
    Our reporter discovers her iPhone movie-watching and music-streaming has unexpectedly pushed her into the top 5% of AT&T's data users.

  • Family Bonding Around TV Via Skype

    26 Jan 2012 | 1:51 pm
    Tely Labs' telyHD turns Skype video chats into room-size experiences, involving whole families or groups of friends on each end—seeing each other, chatting and sharing photos in high definition.

  • App Makes Readers' Thoughts an Open Book

    25 Jan 2012 | 2:35 pm
    Katherine Boehret looks at Subtext, a free iPad app designed to enable and encourage conversations among readers within digital books themselves.

  • The Soundtrack of Our Lives

    20 Jan 2012 | 4:28 pm
    Turn your iPhone into a music machine that transforms mundane sounds into magical masterpieces.
 
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  • Facebook Gets Ready For Its IPO Filing

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:41 am
    Facebook could file papers for an IPO as early as next week and is looking at a valuation of $75 billion to $100 billion. The social network is close to picking Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriter.

  • Retaliation Fears Spur Anonymity in Internet Case

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:06 pm
    U.S. law-enforcement officials say they are increasingly concerned about cyber-retaliation against agents and prosecutors after they say people linked to the hacker collective Anonymous targeted the private life of a government official investigating WikiLeaks.

  • Why Tech Stocks Look Better

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:18 pm
    The sector is known for fast growth, but investors looking for safety might find that it offers a surprising amount of that, too.

  • Facing Up to Venture Capital's Slow Future

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:22 pm
    Will Facebook help the venture-capital industry win some friends it can count on? VC fund raising has had a healthy bump in the last two years, but an outright venture-capital renaissance is a ways off.

  • Monster's Link to Economy Goes Missing

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:19 pm
    There is something frightening going on at Monster Worldwide. And what the online job-search firm reported seeing in the U.S. doesn't seem to jibe.
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    WSJ.com: Markets

  • This Year, Davos Doesn't Deliver

    27 Jan 2012 | 10:42 pm
    One of the World Economic Forum attractions to its participants has been a sense that they were helping to tackle the globe's problems. This time, the Davos braintrust offered precious little advice, writes Francesco Guerrera.

  • Facebook Readies IPO Filing

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:55 pm
    Facebook could file papers for its initial public offering as early as next week, as anticipation mounts for what is likely to be one of the biggest debuts for a U.S. company.

  • Athens, Creditors Close In on Debt Deal

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:37 pm
    —Greece and its private-sector creditors appeared to edge closer Friday to an agreement over a €100 billion ($131 billion) debt writedown on government bonds.

  • Why Tech Stocks Look Better

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:18 pm
    The sector is known for fast growth, but investors looking for safety might find that it offers a surprising amount of that, too.

  • Lawyers Offer Glimpse of Gupta Defense

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:07 pm
    The relationship between ex-Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta and former hedge-fund manager Raj Rajaratnam—and whether it was deteriorating in 2008—could be a focus of Mr. Gupta's defense.
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    WSJ.com: Deals & Deal Makers

  • Greece Edges Toward Debt Deal

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:13 am
    Greece and its private-sector creditors appeared to edge closer to a long-awaited agreement over a €100 billion debt write-down on government bonds.

  • Lagarde: Greek Debt Cut Must Be 'Significant'

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:40 am
    The key goal of debt talks between Greece and its bond holders should be to ensure the government has a debt equivalent to 120% of GDP by 2020, the head of the IMF said.

  • Euro-Zone Bank-Lending Growth Slows

    27 Jan 2012 | 5:54 am
    Euro-zone bank-lending growth slowed sharply in December in annual terms compared with the previous month, data from the ECB showed.

  • Schäuble Sees Fiscal Pact Speeding New Bailout

    27 Jan 2012 | 5:29 am
    Sealing the euro zone's proposed fiscal pact would enable the European Union's new permament bailout fund to enter into force earlier than planned, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble told the World Economic Forum.
 
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    WSJ.com: Heard on the Street

  • Euro-Zone Volcano Dormant, Not Extinct

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:24 pm
    Is the worst of the euro-zone bond-market crisis over? It's tempting to think so with Italian and Spanish yields lower and January's bond auctions attracting heavy demand.

  • Facing Up to Venture Capital's Slow Future

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:22 pm
    Will Facebook help the venture-capital industry win some friends it can count on? VC fund raising has had a healthy bump in the last two years, but an outright venture-capital renaissance is a ways off.

  • Monster's Link to Economy Goes Missing

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:19 pm
    There is something frightening going on at Monster Worldwide. And what the online job-search firm reported seeing in the U.S. doesn't seem to jibe.

  • Beware of Turkish Delight

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:33 am
    The Turkish lira is among the world's best-performing currencies and Turkey's government bonds rallied this week. Yet Turkey is attracting prominent skeptics who see its wide current account deficit as a risk.

  • Australia's Wet Weather Woes

    27 Jan 2012 | 3:42 am
    Australia's summer is taking a battering from La Niña again.
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    WSJ.com: World Markets

  • ECB Chief Says Bank Helped Avert Disaster

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:36 am
    Mario Draghi told the World Economic Forum on Friday that the ECB's actions in December had averted financial disaster, and cited evidence of improvement in euro-zone markets in recent weeks.

  • Greece Edges Toward Debt Deal

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:13 am
    Greece and its private-sector creditors appeared to edge closer to a long-awaited agreement over a €100 billion debt write-down on government bonds.

  • U.K. Bill Proposes New Crisis Powers

    27 Jan 2012 | 10:46 pm
    The U.K.'s chancellor of the exchequer would get new powers to direct the Bank of England when taxpayers' money is at risk and there is a serious risk to financial stability,

  • Sydney, Hong Kong Stocks Rise

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:14 am
    Most Asian markets climbed, with the resource sector leading in Australia. The Nikkei fell 0.1%.

  • Portugal's Borrowing Costs Hit Record

    27 Jan 2012 | 10:12 am
    Borrowing costs for Portugal pushed to euro-era highs for the second consecutive day, while the cost of insuring that sovereign debt also hit fresh records.
 
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    WSJ.com: Family Finance

  • The Private Pension Plan

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:31 pm
    If you're self-employed and in the top echelon of earners, there's a big potential retirement-plan tax break available to you—and you don't even have to be Mitt Romney to get it.

  • What You Can Learn From Mitt's Tax Return

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:11 pm
    Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's 2010 filing is a case study in tax planning. Here is a guided tour.

  • Saving Retiree Health Plans

    27 Jan 2012 | 5:06 pm
    The Kodak bankruptcy is the latest reminder that retiree health-care benefits can be wiped out. How vulnerable are yours?

  • AMT Complicates Tax-Payment Estimates

    21 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
    Calculating quarterly tax payments may prove more difficult than usual given the expiration of the 'patch' for the alternative minimum tax, though many expect Congress will revive it at some point this year.

  • You Don't Have to Be Rich to Build Wealth

    21 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
    You can get started with low-cost mutual funds that don't require huge initial investments either.
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    WSJ.com: Investing

  • Stocks: Last Year's Winners Are Tanking in 2012

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
    Here's why the trend could last—and show how to structure your portfolio accordingly.

  • Why Tech Stocks Look Better

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:18 pm
    The sector is known for fast growth, but investors looking for safety might find that it offers a surprising amount of that, too.

  • How Much Is Facebook Worth?

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:45 pm
    How small investors can get exposure to the social-networking giant before its IPO.

  • Are Pension Forecasts Way Too Sunny?

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:44 pm
    Public companies, expectations for future stock returns remain stubbornly high—often 12% to 16%. This could eventually take a bite out of their reported earnings.

  • Janus Net Slumps 42%; Invesco Profit Rises

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
    Janus Capital's fourth-quarter profit slumped 42% as the asset manager struggled with losses on investments and as investors pulled money out of stock funds. Earnings and assets under management rose at Invesco.
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    WSJ.com: Retirement Planning

  • The Private Pension Plan

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:31 pm
    If you're self-employed and in the top echelon of earners, there's a big potential retirement-plan tax break available to you—and you don't even have to be Mitt Romney to get it.

  • Saving Retiree Health Plans

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
    The Kodak bankruptcy is the latest reminder that retiree health-care benefits can be wiped out. How vulnerable are yours?

  • AMT Complicates Tax-Payment Estimates

    21 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
    Calculating quarterly tax payments may prove more difficult than usual given the expiration of the 'patch' for the alternative minimum tax, though many expect Congress will revive it at some point this year.

  • You Don't Have to Be Rich to Build Wealth

    21 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
    You can get started with low-cost mutual funds that don't require huge initial investments either.

  • Will the IRA Charity Rule Be Extended?

    21 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
    A provision allowing people age 70½ or older to transfer as much as $100,000 a year directly from an IRA to qualified charities, without triggering taxable income, is likely to be resurrected. But no one knows for sure.
 
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    WSJ.com: Taxes

  • What You Can Learn From Mitt's Tax Return

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:11 pm
    Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's 2010 filing is a case study in tax planning. Here is a guided tour.

  • The Private Pension Plan

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
    If you're self-employed and in the top echelon of earners, there's a big potential retirement-plan tax break available to you—and you don't even have to be Mitt Romney to get it.

  • Will the IRA Charity Rule Be Extended?

    21 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
    A provision allowing people age 70½ or older to transfer as much as $100,000 a year directly from an IRA to qualified charities, without triggering taxable income, is likely to be resurrected. But no one knows for sure.

  • AMT Complicates Tax-Payment Estimates

    21 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
    Calculating quarterly tax payments may prove more difficult than usual given the expiration of the 'patch' for the alternative minimum tax, though many expect Congress will revive it at some point this year.

  • The Disappearing IRA Charitable Donation

    20 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
    What should would-be IRA donors do this year, with the law still in limbo?
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    WSJ.com: Lifestyle

  • Beauty Products Reaching Cult Status

    28 Jan 2012 | 2:39 am
    Meet the next generation of beauty products every woman should know.

  • How to Cheat in the Super Bowl Office Pool

    28 Jan 2012 | 1:56 am
    The ultimate guide to winning your Super Bowl office pool.

  • Fashion News

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:02 pm
    Dree Hemingway designs a capsule collection for Sandro; ShopBop launches a virtual store for business women; and Bocanegra suits tailors clothing for women.

  • What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind?

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:50 pm
    Children today reach puberty earlier and adulthood later. The result: a lot of teenage weirdness. Alison Gopnik on how we might readjust adolescence.

  • A Guide to Los Angeles

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:49 pm
    Break La-La Land into bite-size pieces and you can go cocktail-crazy, beach-bonkers, art-happy and food-frenzied in one perfect long weekend
 
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    WSJ.com: Books

  • Week in Ideas: Christopher Shea

    27 Jan 2012 | 10:27 pm
    A look at self-healing computer chips, how to get teenagers to cut calories and thinking outside a real box.

  • Sentiment Tracker: Don't Be Evil?

    27 Jan 2012 | 10:19 pm
    The online buzz about Google's new privacy policy, under which it will combine the data it collects on its users across all its services.

  • What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind?

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:50 pm
    Children today reach puberty earlier and adulthood later. The result: a lot of teenage weirdness. Alison Gopnik on how we might readjust adolescence.

  • You Eat That?

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:08 pm
    Disgust is one of our most basic emotions—the only one that we have to learn—and nothing triggers it more reliably than the strange food of others.

  • In Philadelphia, Van Gogh's Nature Cure

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:47 pm
    The Philadelphia Museum of Art offers about 40 works in "Van Gogh: Up Close."
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    WSJ.com: Travel

  • A Guide to Los Angeles

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:49 pm
    Break La-La Land into bite-size pieces and you can go cocktail-crazy, beach-bonkers, art-happy and food-frenzied in one perfect long weekend

  • Ancient Sports Around the World

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:59 pm
    Long to be a gladiator or learn to hunt with birds of prey? Break out the bucket list—there are new opportunities around the world to experience ancient amusements.

  • New Zealand Luxury Golf Tour, Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan

    27 Jan 2012 | 2:35 pm
    Retired hedge funder Julian Robertson is offering a nine-day journey to his five-star golf resorts in New Zealand (at a price). A Frank Lloyd Wright-focused trip to Japan begins in March.

  • Within Portugal's Cradle

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:35 am
    As one of Europe's 2012 Capitals of Culture, Guimarães, Portugal, is playing host to an invasion of the arts, including the latest ballet from Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, concerts by Grammy-winning Emerson String Quartet and a world-class jazz festival.

  • Marseille's Cultural Renaissance

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:12 am
    Marseille's extensive waterfront is teeming with construction sites for new museums, concert halls and galleries as the city prepares to become a European Capital of Culture.
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    WSJ.com: Autos

  • Mobile Hot Spots: Web Radio, Apps Move to the Dashboard

    25 Jan 2012 | 6:53 am
    Auto makers are accelerating a drive to link your next car's dashboard to all the music and data stored in the Internet cloud.

  • Toyota Raises Sales Target

    25 Jan 2012 | 4:55 am
    Toyota Motor raised its 2012 global sales target as it expects Japanese government subsidies for new cars to drive a stronger recovery in its domestic market.

  • Chrysler's Global Melange Yields True Luxury

    23 Jan 2012 | 10:25 am
    In the new Chrysler 300C Luxury Series, a hunk of America, a dash of Italy and a lingering hint of Germany combine quite nicely, says Dan Neil—and no matter how much you load it up, the price won't top $50,000.

  • From Ford's Quadricycle to the Prius

    20 Jan 2012 | 7:23 pm
    The Henry Ford readies a makeover at its campus in Dearborn, Mich.

  • Detroit Show's Soundtrack: America the Beautiful

    19 Jan 2012 | 4:22 pm
    All three big U.S. auto makers are growing and profitable and reimagining their product portfolios with a confidence, even swagger, they've been missing for years, says Dan Neil—and he finds evidence all over the North American International Auto Show.
 
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    WSJ.com: Food & Drink

  • You Eat That?

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:08 pm
    Disgust is one of our most basic emotions—the only one that we have to learn—and nothing triggers it more reliably than the strange food of others.

  • Eric Ripert's Airport Dining Picks

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:01 pm
    The Le Bernadin chef offers up his favorite places to eat and drink in airports around the world, from Mexican cantinas in Denver to food stands in Singapore.

  • What They're Drinking at Davos

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:50 pm
    At the economic forum's hottest party, guests come to schmooze—and for the choice booze.

  • iPad as Sous Chef

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:17 pm
    Turn your magic slate into the ultimate cook's companion

  • Steamed Mussels With Celery Leaves

    27 Jan 2012 | 3:45 pm
    The last recipe of four easy-enough meals by Chicago chef Paul Kahan.
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    WSJ.com: Fashion Journal

  • The Healthy Sibling Rivalry in a Design House

    25 Jan 2012 | 7:52 pm
    Dynasties that remain in family control over decades and even centuries are rife in Italy, changing fashion world-wide and dominating luxury goods.

  • Shopping Science Behind Lucky's Revamp

    25 Jan 2012 | 4:02 pm
    At Lucky Brand's revamped stores, there is no such thing as a trivial detail.

  • Dress Challenge: Trendy Yet Spill-Proof

    18 Jan 2012 | 2:11 pm
    When Sophie Theallet designed dresses for the wait staff at the Rose Bar at the Gramercy Park Hotel, she had to think Sturdy. Stretchable. And a place to wipe wet hands.

  • The Tyranny of the Belt

    10 Jan 2012 | 4:12 am
    After a big push on the runways in the past few years, belts have become popular on the streets.

  • Fashion's Top Moments

    28 Dec 2011 | 5:19 am
    Royal weddings and un-weddings, drunken rants, state dinners, haute snafus and sleeper fashions made 2011 one of the newsiest and most dramatic years for style in recent memory.
 
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    WSJ.com: Leisure & Arts

  • Destiny's Children

    27 Jan 2012 | 5:50 pm
    Meyer Levin's "The Old Bunch" chronicles the lives of 19 late adolescents living on the West Side of Chicago during the Great Depression. It's a reminder of why novelists were once regarded as gods.

  • 'Man on a Ledge' Does a Balancing Act

    26 Jan 2012 | 9:13 pm
    Meanwhile, the survival saga "The Grey" is deepened by a spiritual theme, and "Albert Nobbs" is a confused story of gender confusion.

  • At the Races, In the Money

    26 Jan 2012 | 8:03 pm
    HBO's intense new drama "Luck" is an addictive journey into the often painful and occasionally beautiful world of horse racing.

  • The New World Reborn

    25 Jan 2012 | 8:40 pm
    Here is American art and history, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's reconstructed American Wing, presented in all of its glorious and puzzling variety, with the perspective of time, impeccable scholarship and a wonderful eye.

  • Opening the Book of American Art

    25 Jan 2012 | 8:39 pm
    Given the collection's riches, the Metropolitan Museum of Art could have simply opted to highlight its masterpieces in its installation of the new American Wing. Instead, what we have is an invaluable account of American history.
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    WSJ.com: Careers

  • Teaching Global Business

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:48 am
    Bhaskar Chakravorti, director of the Master's in International Business program at Tufts' Fletcher School, explains why understanding the big picture – political, historical, sociological -- is fundamental to doing good business.

  • Your Résumé vs. Oblivion

    25 Jan 2012 | 1:27 pm
    Companies inundated with job applications are relying on technology to winnow out less-qualified candidates.

  • From Rising Star to Senior Manager

    25 Jan 2012 | 8:18 am
    For three young executives, finding creative ways to solve thorny business problems put them on a fast track to senior management.

  • When Stress Is Good

    24 Jan 2012 | 1:11 pm
    How to get the benefits of stress—spurring peak performance and well-being—without suffering harmful physical effects.

  • Learn From a Pink Slip

    23 Jan 2012 | 10:53 pm
    You can use the transition to create a list of resolutions that can be applied to your next job or even used as a template for a new career.
 
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    WSJ.com: News &Trends

  • Your Résumé vs. Oblivion

    25 Jan 2012 | 1:27 pm
    Companies inundated with job applications are relying on technology to winnow out less-qualified candidates.

  • M.B.A.s Seek to Occupy Wall Street

    21 Oct 2011 | 11:06 am
    Financial-services industry hiring at the big Master of Business Administration programs hit a post financial-crisis high this year.

  • Law Schools Get Practical

    11 Jul 2011 | 8:56 am
    Looking to attract employers' attention, some law schools are throwing out decades of tradition, replacing textbook courses with classes that teach more practical skills.

  • Brazil's Boom Needs Talent

    3 Jul 2011 | 11:24 am
    Multinational companies are taking extra measures to secure qualified employees in Brazil's booming economy—beefing up internship programs and relocating workers from flat or declining markets.

  • Make a Temp Job Last

    25 Jun 2011 | 8:29 pm
    When times are prosperous, companies are more likely to use temporary jobs as a low-risk way to vet full-time candidates. Temps should do what they can to stand out in some way to improve their chances of getting hired full time.
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    WSJ.com: Real Estate

  • Hope Is Rising for Mortgage Accord

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:26 pm
    New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said he is confident his main concern with a pending settlement of alleged bank- foreclosure abuses would be resolved, but he didn't commit to participating in an agreement.

  • Hot and Smart Home Products

    27 Jan 2012 | 1:05 pm
    Hanging fireplaces and smart thermostats are among the products that will be featured at the upcoming International Builders Show. Our columnist takes a look.

  • A Contractor Spills His Secrets

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:24 pm
    A builder of luxury homes reveals how he created his weekend retreat on a budget.

  • D.R. Horton Swings to Profit

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:43 am
    D.R. Horton swung to the black in its fiscal first quarter on a double-digit jump in home-building revenue and showed optimism for the spring selling season.

  • Restored Tuscan Farmhouse

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:12 pm
    This six-bedroom Italian villa has been entirely rebuilt using the original stones to incorporate many modern features.
 
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    WSJ.com: Buying & Selling

  • A Contractor Spills His Secrets

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:24 pm
    A builder of luxury homes reveals how he created his weekend retreat on a budget.

  • Tim Headington Asks $25 Million in South Beach

    26 Jan 2012 | 10:37 pm
    Tim Headington asks $25 million in South Beach, Phil Mickelson relists in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., and Mats Wilander puts his Idaho estate up for sale.

  • A Waterfront Home in Rhode Island

    26 Jan 2012 | 6:18 pm
    A Jamestown, R.I., home of about 6,500 square feet, with six bedrooms, seven bathrooms and two half-bathrooms, is asking $5.8 million.

  • Navigating a Tight Rental Market

    21 Jan 2012 | 7:37 pm
    Demand and rents are up as the housing crisis and tighter lending standards have left many people unable to or wary of purchasing a home. So finding a deal requires compromise and negotiation.

  • Rent Payments Can Boost Credit

    21 Jan 2012 | 7:34 pm
    Experian now includes rent data in its VantageScore, while a new website lets you upload data that's then sent to credit-reporting companies.
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    WSJ.com: Commercial Real Estate

  • Developer Makes a Fresh Start

    24 Jan 2012 | 10:28 pm
    The family behind Opus, once one of the largest private developers in the country, is making a comeback after settling battles with creditors and former employees.

  • Lehman to Block Zell's Archstone Deal

    23 Jan 2012 | 10:41 am
    The estate of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is planning this week to use $1.33 billion in cash to buy a 26.5% stake in apartment giant Archstone.

  • Lehman's Estate Gets Montana Resort

    22 Jan 2012 | 6:41 pm
    The estate of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is now the owner of a Montana ski and golf resort, after assuming control of the assets of Moonlight Basin Ranch LP.

  • Marriott Delivers Late Editions

    18 Jan 2012 | 9:26 pm
    Marriott has been trying—and failing—for more than four years to build a brand of hip hotels. Now, it finally may be breathing some life into the Edition brand, its competitor to the stylish W chain.

  • Calpers Downsizes Housing Portfolio

    18 Jan 2012 | 8:51 pm
    Calpers, the giant California pension fund, is dumping one of its last major housing investments at a big loss.
 
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    WSJ.com: Using Technology

  • The Race to Nab Web Addresses

    9 Jan 2012 | 4:44 pm
    Entrepreneurs see an opportunity in the opening up of a new realm of Web addresses in which just about any word can serve as a domain name.

  • Best Buy Jumps Into Small Business IT Services

    22 Dec 2011 | 5:37 pm
    The small-business IT services landscape will evolve next week after Best Buy Co., the world's largest electronics chain, closes its deal for a provider of IT services to small and midsize firms.

  • 6 Tips for Building a Web-Based Store

    12 Dec 2011 | 3:03 pm
    Building an ecommerce platform within your company website doesn't have to be complex or expensive.

  • How 3 Companies Built Twitter Strategies

    9 Dec 2011 | 3:45 pm
    Twitter has proved an effective tool, but ill-considered tweets or hacked Twitter accounts have caused plenty of embarrassment. With this in mind, Southwest Airlines, Whole Foods and Best Buy have built different strategies.

  • Need to Bank? Phone It In.

    13 Nov 2011 | 11:01 pm
    A growing number of entrepreneurs are tapping into smartphone apps from lenders that let them do a range of jobs, from checking their balances and paying bills to depositing checks.
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    WSJ.com: Franchising

  • Franchises, on a Smaller Scale

    11 Jan 2012 | 11:59 pm
    Franchisers are offering more options at different price points—from mall kiosks to mobile food trucks—to woo franchisees reluctant to spend too much.

  • Wendy's Set to Surpass Burger King

    20 Dec 2011 | 11:01 pm
    Wendy's is poised to pass Burger King in U.S. sales, trailing only industry behemoth McDonald's, in the first reordering of the industry-leading trio since Wendy's was founded in 1969.

  • Franchising 2012 Outlook: Better Than 2011 Reality

    19 Dec 2011 | 11:01 pm
    The industry's largest trade group says the ranks of franchises declined this year. But the forecast for 2012 is still bright.

  • Debit-Card Law Has Nasty Side Effect

    7 Dec 2011 | 11:01 pm
    A new law that was supposed to reduce costs for merchants that accept debit cards has instead sent monthly processing bills much higher for some of them. And they are passing the higher costs on to customers.

  • Smaller Franchisers Expand Their Horizons

    15 Nov 2011 | 8:32 am
    Economic uncertainty at home has prompted a growing number of small businesses to turn to markets in the developing world where credit continues to flow and there's a growing appetite for American goods and services.
 
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    WSJ.com: The Numbers Guy

  • Fuzzy Facts Can Make Crime Rankings Suspect

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:28 pm
    Homicide might be the most concrete of crimes. But, as two recent rankings demonstrate, even homicide figures are subject to interpretation and uncertainty.

  • Study Tallies Private Equity's Jobs Role

    20 Jan 2012 | 10:59 pm
    The political debate about Romney's tenure at Bain Capital and its impact on jobs has been largely anecdotal, and some studies into private equity's effect on jobs haven't been much more scientific. A new effort addresses some of those shortfalls.

  • Plot Thickens on Oscar Ballot

    14 Jan 2012 | 5:39 pm
    The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' revised process for selecting best-picture finalists, debuting this year, places much greater weight on which film voters list first on their five-movie ballot.

  • Americans Stumble on Math of Big Issues

    6 Jan 2012 | 8:38 pm
    Many Americans have strong opinions about hot-button policy issues shaping the presidential campaign, from immigration to Social Security. But their grasp of numbers that underlie those issues is tenuous at best.

  • When Testing for Cocaine Usage, Don't Follow the Money

    25 Dec 2011 | 1:31 pm
    Researchers have found that 90% of U.S. bank notes carry traces of cocaine, but is that a sign we are all users of the drug?
 
 
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    WSJ.com: The Middle Seat

  • 'Premium Coach' Gets Popular

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:47 am
    There is an increasingly popular offering from airlines: a mid-tier class called premium economy. But every airline has a different take on what passengers get for the extra money.

  • The World's Longest Flight, in Coach

    24 Jan 2012 | 4:56 pm
    Long-haul nonstop flights like the 15-hour one from Sydney to Dallas are increasingly popular among business travelers and high-end tourists who are willing to pay more to avoid a layover.

  • Who's the Fairest Fare of All?

    12 Jan 2012 | 7:11 am
    Dozens of websites claim to offer the best deals on airfare. But the prices can be out of date, unavailable or even misleading.

  • The Leader in Lost Bags, Canceled Flights

    6 Jan 2012 | 2:03 pm
    Dallas-based American Airlines has ranked dead last in customer service in the annual Middle Seat analysis of major domestic carriers.

  • Trump Card at Check-In

    29 Dec 2011 | 11:29 am
    Qantas has created the practically paperless airport in Sydney, rolling out new technology that eliminates many long lines and speeds passengers all the way to their seat.
 
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    WSJ.com: Personal Technology

  • Family Bonding Around TV Via Skype

    26 Jan 2012 | 1:51 pm
    Tely Labs' telyHD turns Skype video chats into room-size experiences, involving whole families or groups of friends on each end—seeing each other, chatting and sharing photos in high definition.

  • Talk Is Cheap on Nokia's New Phone

    19 Jan 2012 | 1:51 pm
    Walt Mossberg reviews Nokia's Lumia 710, the $50 device that gets the most common smartphone tasks done for a bargain price.

  • PowerPoint, Word, Excel for the iPad

    17 Jan 2012 | 2:12 pm
    Walt Mossberg reviews an app that brings the full, genuine Windows versions of key Office productivity apps to iPad.

  • A Diabetic Meter That Talks to Doctors

    11 Jan 2012 | 8:02 pm
    Telcare's new diabetes meter offers built-in wireless technology to transmit readings to an online database.

  • Year in Technology

    27 Dec 2011 | 4:08 pm
    Important new products and services -- including Ultrabooks, cloud computing and Android devices -- raised questions and anticipation.
 
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    WSJ.com: Mossberg's Mailbox

  • Track Changes on an iPad

    25 Jan 2012 | 8:03 pm
    Walt Mossberg answers a reader's question on whether a new Microsoft Office app for the iPad tracks changes.

  • Mossberg's Mailbox

    12 Jan 2012 | 1:34 am
    Columnist Walt Mossberg answers a reader's question about security holes in Web browsers.

  • Waiting for Windows 8

    4 Jan 2012 | 8:01 pm
    Walt Mossberg answers a reader's question on whether to wait for Windows 8 before buying a new computer.

  • Microsoft Office on iPad

    28 Dec 2011 | 7:12 pm
    Walt Mossberg answers readers' questions about technology, including opening Office files on the iPad.

  • Sending Music to the Cloud

    14 Dec 2011 | 7:42 pm
    Walt Mossberg answers readers' technology questions, including uploading music to Apple's iTunes Match cloud service.
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    WSJ.com: What's Your Workout

  • Tough Exercise to Look Tough on a Bike

    23 Jan 2012 | 10:56 pm
    Riding a motorcycle may not seem like a workout, but Michael Quinn would dare skeptics to try standing on the pegs of an off-road bike while riding for 12 hours in the heat of the Atacama desert.

  • Kite Surfing Over 70

    16 Jan 2012 | 5:53 pm
    Kite surfing has a reputation as an extreme sport, but Louis Gomez, age 73, practices it gently, two to three hours a day.

  • Getting 'Whipped' Into Shape

    9 Jan 2012 | 2:14 pm
    Civil trial attorney Amy Dinn stays fit through competitive roller derby. Her nickname on the rink? The Prosecutor.

  • Rowing to Heart's Content

    20 Dec 2011 | 11:56 am
    James Jay Rubens, a commercial real-estate attorney, recovered from a heart attack he suffered 13 years ago. When his weight crept back up, he lost it with a variety of exercise routines including classes that use Indo-Row machines.

  • Rev. Al Sharpton's Fitness Routine

    11 Dec 2011 | 2:52 pm
    Rev. Al Sharpton, activist and host of MSNBC's PolitcsNation and a nationally syndicated radio show, works out seven days each week and sticks to a strict diet, even on the road, that over time has led to a dramatic weight loss.
 
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    WSJ.com: Business

  • Pentagon Seeks Mightier Bomb vs. Iran

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:47 pm
    Pentagon war planners have concluded that their largest conventional bomb isn't yet capable of destroying Iran's most heavily fortified underground facilities, and are stepping up efforts to make it more powerful.

  • Lawyers Offer Glimpse of Gupta Defense

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:07 pm
    The relationship between ex-Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta and former hedge-fund manager Raj Rajaratnam—and whether it was deteriorating in 2008—could be a focus of Mr. Gupta's defense.

  • Regulators Close Four Banks

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:22 pm
    Regulators closed four more banks in the U.S., raising the nationwide tally of failures so far in 2012 to seven.

  • More Fined in Greenlight Case

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:02 pm
    The FSA fined a former compliance officer at Greenlight Capital £130,000 for insufficient oversight in the sale of Punch Taverns shares ahead of a planned equity raising. A J.P. Morgan Cazenove employee was also fined.

  • AMR Retirees Seek Bankruptcy Voice

    27 Jan 2012 | 5:49 pm
    A group of AMR retirees are seeking formal representation in the airline's bankruptcy reorganization process.
 
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    WSJ.com: Work & Family

  • When Stress Is Good

    24 Jan 2012 | 1:11 pm
    How to get the benefits of stress—spurring peak performance and well-being—without suffering harmful physical effects.

  • Clean Your Room…or Else

    9 Jan 2012 | 11:24 pm
    Mountains of clothing on the floor, empty snack bowls under the bed and soft-drink cups littering the tabletops. Most parents at some point have at least one teen whose bedroom resembles a landfill.

  • The Downsides of Working in a Glass Office

    4 Jan 2012 | 4:54 am
    More people are working in offices with open designs and many glass walls. But some employers feel the designs could be more habitable.

  • Conquer the To-Do List

    28 Dec 2011 | 9:56 am
    The first item on a highly successful to-do list: Make a better to-do list.

  • Happy (Awkward) Holidays

    14 Dec 2011 | 11:02 pm
    How come the holidays can bring out the grumps in us? We look at some common sticky situations and offer tips on how to handle them with grace and poise.
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    WSJ.com: Heard on the Street

  • Euro-Zone Volcano Dormant, Not Extinct

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:24 pm
    Is the worst of the euro-zone bond-market crisis over? It's tempting to think so with Italian and Spanish yields lower and January's bond auctions attracting heavy demand.

  • Facing Up to Venture Capital's Slow Future

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:22 pm
    Will Facebook help the venture-capital industry win some friends it can count on? VC fund raising has had a healthy bump in the last two years, but an outright venture-capital renaissance is a ways off.

  • Monster's Link to Economy Goes Missing

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:19 pm
    There is something frightening going on at Monster Worldwide. And what the online job-search firm reported seeing in the U.S. doesn't seem to jibe.

  • Beware of Turkish Delight

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:33 am
    The Turkish lira is among the world's best-performing currencies and Turkey's government bonds rallied this week. Yet Turkey is attracting prominent skeptics who see its wide current account deficit as a risk.

  • Australia's Wet Weather Woes

    27 Jan 2012 | 3:42 am
    Australia's summer is taking a battering from La Niña again.
 
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    WSJ.com: Me & My Car

  • Is Shorter Better?

    24 Jan 2012 | 4:59 pm
    Jonathan Welsh answers a reader's question on why shorter sidewalls on tires are so popular.

  • Taking the Battery for a Drive

    17 Jan 2012 | 5:29 pm
    Jonathan Welsh answers a reader's question about how long do you have to drive a car to recharge a dead battery.

  • Goodbye to a Minivan?

    10 Jan 2012 | 5:24 pm
    Jonathan Welsh answers a reader's question on speculation about Chrysler no longer selling minivans.

  • Rubber Meets the Snow

    3 Jan 2012 | 6:52 pm
    Jonathan Welsh answers readers' question on winter tires, whether rebuilding an engine is worth the cost and other car issues.

  • Getting a Sinking Feeling

    27 Dec 2011 | 5:22 pm
    Jonathan Welsh answers a reader's question on why a new car would have under-inflated tires.
 
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    WSJ.com: Capital

  • Factory Floor Has Ceiling on Job Creation

    11 Jan 2012 | 11:50 pm
    Factory employment has grown in the past two years but manufacturing alone is not going to put America back to work.

  • Gridlock Stalls Fiscal Policy

    5 Jan 2012 | 6:09 pm
    Congressional gridlock and the resulting policy paralysis dominate conversation about what comes next in fiscal policy.

  • Emerging Questions on Growth Path

    2 Jan 2012 | 10:18 pm
    The global financial crisis exposed shortcomings of U.S.-style capitalism, and Europe's sovereign-debt crisis highlighted the tension of a costly welfare state. Now, the developing world grapples with the fallout and seeks a way forward.

  • An Economic Columnist's Forecast for 2012

    29 Dec 2011 | 11:47 am
    What surprises does David Wessel anticipate in the coming year? A better question is: Where is the conventional wisdom most likely to be wrong?

  • World's Supply of 'Safe' Assets Runs Short

    22 Dec 2011 | 12:53 pm
    What changes will a persistent shortage of risk-free assets provoke in the world economy?
 
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    WSJ.com: The Intelligent Investor

  • Are Pension Forecasts Way Too Sunny?

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:44 pm
    Public companies, expectations for future stock returns remain stubbornly high—often 12% to 16%. This could eventually take a bite out of their reported earnings.

  • Suze Orman's Stock Secrets

    20 Jan 2012 | 10:38 pm
    The personal-finance icon has a newsletter guru. Has he exaggerated some of his investing results?

  • One Cure for Accounting Shenanigans

    13 Jan 2012 | 7:16 pm
    Regulators are considering whether to make companies rotate their audit firms to combat conflicts of interest. With companies and audit firms furiously opposed, can term limits work?

  • Now That's Performance Art

    13 Jan 2012 | 5:49 pm
    Every year at this time, fund managers dump losers and chase winners to pump their own performance. Don't be taken in.

  • Will New Tools Help Small Shareholders Topple Giants?

    9 Jan 2012 | 8:11 am
    The unending struggle between the managers who control America's corporations and the investors who own them is about to become more interesting. It might even become a fairer fight.
 
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    WSJ.com: Most Viewed Week

  • Pentagon Seeks Mightier Bomb vs. Iran

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:20 am
    Pentagon war planners have concluded that their largest conventional bomb isn't yet capable of destroying Iran's most heavily fortified underground facilities, and are stepping up efforts to make it more powerful.

  • Facebook Gets Ready For Its IPO Filing

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:41 am
    Facebook could file papers for an IPO as early as next week and is looking at a valuation of $75 billion to $100 billion. The social network is close to picking Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriter.

  • No More Résumés, Say Some Firms

    25 Jan 2012 | 1:25 pm
    Some companies are skipping résumés, saying the staid requirement doesn't provide much depth about a job candidate.

  • Meet the Marriage Killer

    25 Jan 2012 | 11:42 am
    It's more common than adultery and potentially as toxic, so why is it so hard to stop nagging?

  • Delta Reroutes Flights as Solar Storm Hits Earth

    24 Jan 2012 | 7:40 pm
    Delta said Tuesday that it's rerouting some transpolar flights between Asia and the U.S. to avoid the impact of the largest solar storm in almost a decade.
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    WSJ.com: Most Viewed Month

  • Facebook Gets Ready For Its IPO Filing

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:41 am
    Facebook could file papers for an IPO as early as next week and is looking at a valuation of $75 billion to $100 billion. The social network is close to picking Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriter.

  • No More Résumés, Say Some Firms

    25 Jan 2012 | 1:25 pm
    Some companies are skipping résumés, saying the staid requirement doesn't provide much depth about a job candidate.

  • Meet the Marriage Killer

    25 Jan 2012 | 11:42 am
    It's more common than adultery and potentially as toxic, so why is it so hard to stop nagging?

  • Gingrich Was Professor With Big Plans

    18 Jan 2012 | 2:40 pm
    A clutch of little-known records from what is now the University of West Georgia suggests the Republican presidential candidate's ambition and intellectual grandeur aren't a long way from the 1970s vintage.

  • U.S. Warns Israel on Strike

    15 Jan 2012 | 2:27 pm
    U.S. defense leaders are increasingly concerned that Israel is preparing to take military action against Iran, over U.S. objections, and have stepped up contingency planning to safeguard U.S. facilities in the region in case of a conflict.
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    Digits

  • Twitter Lawyer Responds to Censorship Controversy

    Amir Efrati
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:05 pm
    There was considerable confusion, and opposition, following Twitter’s announcement Thursday that it can now censor tweets within specific countries if foreign governments request that it do so. The company’s top lawyer late Friday tried to clarify what the micro-blogging company will and won’t do. Some observers suspect Twitter is setting the stage for entering countries like China, where Internet companies must cooperate with authorities to filter out illegal information before it gets posted on their sites. Others were simply disappointed that Twitter, a self-proclaimed champion of…

  • Digits Live Show: The Long-Awaited Facebook IPO is Imminent

    WSJ Staff
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:49 pm
    Today on Digits: Facebook plans to file an IPO and Morgan Stanley is close to striking a deal to manage the filing. Plus: Twitter announces it can now censor its site by country; Apple makes more inroads into the enterprise and new cable plans allow subscribers to scale back without cutting the cord.

  • Tech Today: Blogosphere Takes on Twitter Censorship

    Tom Loftus
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:17 am
    Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images A shop in Tahrir Square is spray painted with the word Twitter after the government shut off internet access on February 4, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. Reactions to Twitter Censorship Announcement: Twitter’s announced yesterday that it now has the ability to censor content on a country-by-country basis. Wondering if the move indicated an eventual Twitter presence in China, PandoDaily writes, “I’m sure Mao would be pleased.” The Guardian, meanwhile, asks if the new system could be used in the U.K. to block tweets exposing information hidden by local laws…

  • Digits Live Show: Mossberg: Skype Moves from Laptop to TV Screen

    WSJ Staff
    26 Jan 2012 | 4:06 pm
    On today’s Digits: TelyHD allows entire families to Skype using the television, Walt Mossberg reports. Plus: Megaupload executives are granted bail; AT&T loses out to Verizon in customer race; Netflix tries to find its footing; the NFL says “ok” to tweeting by players during the Pro Bowl; start-up Codeacademy introduces a new program for would-be code jockeys and a site to help soothe the sting of break ups.

  • Report: Apple Takes Bigger Business Slice

    Tom Loftus
    26 Jan 2012 | 4:05 pm
    A new report from Forrester has uncovered new numbers on Apple Inc.’s infiltration of business with devices historically marketed to consumers. According to the report, 21% of the 10,000 information workers surveyed use one or more Apple products at work, with that percentage nearly doubling for those with a title of director or higher. The numbers partly reflect the well documented trend of “bring your own device,” where workers access corporate data via their iPhone or iPad, originally purchased for home use. Jason Alden/Bloomberg The growing preference for Apple devices at work is…
 
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    The Daily Fix

  • Ranking an Alternate Women’s Tennis Universe

    Carl Bialik
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:29 pm
    On Saturday, Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka will play each other in the Australian Open women’s singles final. On Monday, the winner will top the world rankings, supplanting long-time No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki. Getty Images Victoria Azarenka or Maria Sharapova will be No. 1 after the Australian Open women’s final on Saturday. Wozniacki took a lot of heat for reaching and holding the top spot without having won a major. Now that she is being replaced, the pressure on her will subside. But perhaps it will be shifted onto the ranking system itself. Some have criticized the WTA…

  • Djokovic Earns Final With Nadal — Again

    Gillian Tan
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:41 am
    Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Novak Djokovic beat Andy Murray in five sets in their Australian Open semifinal Friday. Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray must have watched Thursday’s Australian Open semifinal between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal and decided they needed to up the ante. In the second Grand Slam meeting of their careers, Djokovic triumphed 6-3, 3-6, 6-7(4), 6-1, 7-5, surviving almost five hours of high-intensity tennis to claim the spot opposite Nadal in Sunday’s final. Which means tennis turns to Djokovic and Nadal, the tournament’s top two seeds, once more in…

  • The End of the Peyton Manning Era?

    David Roth
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:27 am
    When Peyton Manning took over at quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts in 1998, the franchise’s post-Baltimore history was bereft not just of serious accomplishment but of icons worth venerating. To say that Manning succeeded in helping fans forget about predecessors like Jeff George and Jack Trudeau in the 14 seasons since is a profound understatement. Manning rang up a 141-67 record during the regular season, led the team to a Super Bowl win in 2006 and reserved himself a spot in Canton. The Colts, for their part, were transformed from one of the NFL’s more hapless franchises…

  • Podcast: The All-Star All-Stars

    Adam Thompson
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:40 pm
    Getty Images It’s too bad no one’s figured out how to translates the results of a kayak race into who hosts playoff games. On this week’s Sports Report, the four-man weave attempts to survive the week before the Super Bowl by rating the major all-star games. Plus, we skate shorthanded as Darren Everson serves his self-imposed 10-minute major misconduct for picking playoff football very poorly, a modest proposal for penalties in baseball, an immodest attack on Girl Scout cookies and more.

  • Federer Went Down, but Not Without a Fight

    Carl Bialik
    26 Jan 2012 | 1:11 pm
    The conventional wisdom after Roger Federer’s latest loss to Rafael Nadal, in the Australian Open semifinals on Thursday is that Federer lost it the way he’d lost 17 of their previous 26 meetings. This view of the rivalry holds that Federer plays too passively, with too little fight, against the much tougher Nadal, casting doubt on the case his supporters make that Federer is the best player of all time. European Pressphoto Agency Roger Federer stretched his powers against Rafael Nadal, but they weren’t enough That view may hold water for many of their previous matches, and…
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    Deal Journal

  • The Morgan Stanley Tech-Team Hall Of Fame

    David Benoit
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:30 pm
    Morgan Stanley’s team of tech and internet bankers are close to landing yet another giant fish in the lead role in the Facebook’s planned IPO. Reuters The team has dominated the past year of technology IPOs, staffed by the likes of Michael Grimes, Paul Chamberlain, and Charles Cory. But they are just the latest stars to run around Morgan Stanley’s tech halls and the roster of alumni runs deep and long. Here are some of the biggest names: Frank Quattrone – Now running Qatalyst, he was the leading banker of Silicon-Valley during the dot-com era. Quattrone helped build Morgan…

  • Delta Studying US Airways as Possible Acquisition Target — sources

    David Benoit
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:01 pm
    By Gina Chon, Anupreeta Das and Susan Carey Delta Air Lines is now looking at making a run at US Airways Group, WSJ is reporting, citing people familiar with the matter. Bloomberg News Delta, the world’s No. 2 airline by traffic, also has been assessing a similar move for much-larger American Airlines parent AMR Corp., the people have said. It is working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. as one of its financial advisers, along with Blackstone Group, the people said. Delta sees itself as a consolidator in the airline industry and is studying several options, the people added. Delta has not yet…

  • Facebook IPO: Is Another VC Boom on the Horizon?

    Stephen Grocer
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:30 pm
    Facebook’s upcoming IPO is likely to rain riches across Silicon Valley. Associated Press Among the biggest beneficiaries will be the VC firms that invested in Facebook early on. Accel Partners invested $12.7 million in Facebook back in 2005 when the company was priced around $100 million. The next year Greylock Partners and Meritech Capital Partners invested around $12.5 million each when Facebook was valued at $500 million. Then there is Peter Thiel, who invested $500,000 in Facebook all the way back in 2004 when the company was valued at $4.9 million. But the question Heard on the Street…

  • Direct Edge Exploring Sale Or IPO As Exchange Plots Growth

    Jacob Bunge
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:28 pm
    Direct Edge is exploring a sale or initial public offering as the electronic exchange company looks to grow amid tough market conditions and intense competition facing U.S. stock market operators. A sale could draw interest from overseas exchange operators, according to market observers, with Direct Edge running the fourth-largest U.S. stock market operation and offering an entry point to Brazil. William O’Brien, CEO of Direct Edge, said the firm is exploring “capital market alternatives.” People familiar with the matter said Wells Fargo and Bank of America Merrill Lynch…

  • Citigroup Gets Around To Closing Prop Trading Desk For Volcker

    Matthias Rieker
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:09 pm
    Citigroup told its staff Friday that the bank’s proprietary trading desk will be shuttered on Feb. 6. Getty Images The move has long been coming, since banks are facing restrictions on trading with their own capital and Citigroup, like many big banks, had already curbed proprietary trading to preserve capital during the financial crisis. The Volcker Rule restricting bank investments as part of the Dodd-Frank Act overhauling the financial-services industry is scheduled to be implemented this summer. On Friday, Derek Bandeen, Citi’s global head of equities, told the bank’s…
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    Developments

  • (Video) Phil Mickelson Relists San Diego Home

    WSJ Staff
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:29 pm
    Golf champion Phil Mickelson has put his 9,500-square-foot, five-bedroom Tuscan-style home in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., a wealthy enclave near San Diego, back on the market for the reduced price of $7.1 million.

  • Rare Payoff on Vintage ’07 Commercial Loan

    Al Yoon
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:58 pm
    In some cases, it pays to wait out the slump in commercial real estate. A troubled-loan specialist firm recently sold the loan on the Crescent, a Beverly Hills, Calif., retail-and-apartment complex to a group of buyers including BlackRock Realty for about $85 million—about $8 million less than the property value at the height of the boom in 2007 but $12 million more than the loan’s unpaid balance. Harris Trifon, a commercial mortgage bond strategist at Deutsche Bank, characterized the sale as “astounding,” considering that the average loss on 2006 and 2007 vintage loans is…

  • Behind the Numbers: New-Home Sales Hit Record Low

    Dawn Wotapka
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:06 pm
    Another year, another record low for sales of new homes. Sales unexpectedly fell in December, putting the brakes on three months of increases, indicating that the hard-hit sector might not have hit bottom after all. Sales fell 2.2% from the prior month to a rate of 307,000 annualized. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires had forecast sales would tick up 1.9%. The total in 2010 was 323,000, the lowest amount since record keeping began in 1963. Particularly concerning is that December’s prices plunged 12.8% from the prior year to $210,300, a blow to anyone hoping prices had stopped…

  • Mortgage Rates Rise on Stronger Housing Reports

    WSJ Staff
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:31 pm
    By Mia Lamar Rates for fixed mortgages moved higher over the past week amid positive signals from the long-suffering U.S. housing market, according to Freddie Mac’s weekly survey of mortgage rates. “Fixed mortgage rates ticked up this week as the housing market ended 2011 on a high note,” said Freddie Mac Chief Economist Frank Nothaft, noting encouraging data like a report that existing home sales rose 5% at the end of the year to 4.61 million houses, the largest amount since May 2010. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 3.98% for the week ended Thursday, up from 3.88%…

  • Places for Home Builders to Dig In

    Robbie Whelan
    25 Jan 2012 | 5:41 pm
    Where are the best markets to build and sell new homes these days? Amid a flurry of housing news this week, including President Barack Obama’s latest mortgage-refinance proposal, comes an interesting piece of real-estate analysis in the building sector. Houston-based Metrostudy has analyzed the strongest markets for home builders. They include: San Diego; Southern California; Texas’s Rio Grande Valley; St. George, Utah; and Orlando. The research is by Brad Hunter, chief economist at Metrostudy, a company that, among other things, sends observers out each month to hundreds of new-home…
 
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    Health Blog

  • FDA (Finally) Gives Amylin’s Bydureon a Thumbs-Up

    Katherine Hobson
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:19 pm
    Bydureon, the once-weekly injection for treating patients with type 2 diabetes, has finally won the FDA’s okay. As Dow Jones Newswires reports, it’s been a long, bumpy road to approval for the drug’s developer, Amylin Pharmaceuticals. (Alkermes is behind the extended-release technology used to deliver the drug, a longer-acting version of Amylin’s twice-daily Byetta.) Amylin started working on the drug in 1999 and first applied for FDA approval — with its then-partner Lilly — a decade later. But the agency in 2010 said it needed more information “about…

  • What Are the Obstacles to Digital Health Records?

    Katherine Hobson
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:35 pm
    What’s standing in the way of the wider spread of health IT? Plenty of things, according to a new report from the Bipartisan Policy Center. The report says boosting use of electronic medical records and other health IT “enjoys bipartisan support.” It’s also being pushed by billions of dollars in government incentives. The assumption is that health IT can help improve health outcomes, improve the experience of care and save money. But there are gaps and barriers to its effective use, the report says. Among them: a lack of health information exchange. In other words,…

  • A.M. Vitals: WellPoint to Increase Primary-Care Reimbursement

    Katherine Hobson
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:55 am
    Paying More for Primary Care: Beginning in the summer, WellPoint will increase reimbursement for primary-care services — offering those physicians a fee increase of around 10% with the chance of additional payments that could bolster what they receive for covered patients by as much as 50% — in an attempt to lower acute-care costs, the WSJ reports. Additional payment and support for primary care could add as much as one to two percentage points to WellPoint’s primary-care spending — now about 6% to 8% of some $100 billion in annual claims, the paper says. Oral HPV…

  • CDC: Cancer-Screening Rates Fall Short of Goals

    Katherine Hobson
    26 Jan 2012 | 3:46 pm
    U.S. cancer-screening rates are falling short of the government’s targets. According to new stats out today from the CDC, not enough people are following the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s recommendations for getting regular breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening tests. And the picture looks even worse when you look at specific racial and ethnic groups, namely Asians and Hispanics. Keep in mind that the USPSTF’s recommendations are generally more conservative than those from other organizations. So, for example, these stats look at how many women aged 50 to…

  • Hematologists Disagree With Sickle-Cell Testing as Prerequisite for Playing Sports

    Katherine Hobson
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:26 pm
    Ryan Clark of the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers, shown here in a file photo, had to sit out a playoff game in Denver because his sickle-cell trait can be exacerbated at high altitude. The American Society of Hematology says it doesn’t think student athletes should have to be screened for sickle-cell trait in order to play their sport. Instead, the group says in a policy statement, schools should take steps to protect all athletes from exertion-related illness and death. The physicians’ position contrasts with that of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which in 2010…
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  • Alcoa Says RICO Lawsuit Is Too Foreign

    Joe Palazzolo
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:21 pm
    Aluminum maker Alcoa asked a federal judge Friday to toss a long-running civil racketeering lawsuit accusing the company of paying bribes in Bahrain to win business with its state-owned aluminum company. The case, as we’ve detailed here, is proceeding alongside a criminal investigation of Alcoa over possible violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which bars companies from paying bribes to foreign officials. To recap, the civil lawsuit alleges Alcoa paid tens of millions of dollars in bribes, through an agent, to officials at the state-owned company, Aluminum Bahrain, in…

  • Sixth Circuit Revives Free Speech Lawsuit Over Grad Student’s Firing

    Joe Palazzolo
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:31 pm
    A federal appeals court has revived a three-year old lawsuit involving a former Eastern Michigan University student that addresses whether counselors who refuse to work with gays and lesbians on religious grounds are in breach of professional ethics. In 2009, the university expelled Julea Ward (pictured) from its graduate counseling program after she refused for religious reasons to counsel a gay student about relationship problems, according to court documents. Ward sued university officials, claiming her First Amendment guarantees to free speech and free practice of religion were violated.

  • Climate Change Debate Brewing in American Classrooms

    Sam Favate
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:19 am
    There’s a new battle brewing in America’s classrooms, and while it doesn’t have the religious implications of the evolution vs. creationism debate, it has prompted several state legislatures and local school boards to get involved. Climate change — that topic that makes you bang your head against the wall when talking to your obstinate brother-in-law — is the new battleground in science education in middle and high schools in the U.S., Oregon Public Broadcasting reports. State boards of education in Texas and Louisiana have established standards to require the presentation…

  • Prisons Are Teeming With the Old and Sick; Should We Let them Go?

    Ashby Jones
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:50 am
    iStockPhoto We tend to think of prisons as places teeming with angry young (and tattooed) men, ripped from hours of pushing iron in the yard. But two new studies — one out today and one to be unveiled next month — are calling that shopworn notion into question. In actuality, our nation’s prisons are teeming with the old and infirm. It’s exacerbating a pretty significant prison-crowding problem across the country. That notion alone is pretty interesting. But vastly more interesting, in our opinion, is the solution that some are pushing: letting the old and sick walk out…

  • Email Disclaimers: The Modern-Day Mattress Tag?

    Joe Palazzolo
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:46 am
    “Has anyone ever been arrested for tearing them off?” asks Bruce Nyman, a former county official from Long Island, N. Y., who says he’s grown tired of the many disclaimers attached to messages in his inbox. In this A-Hed, the WSJ’s Dionne Searcey and Michael Rothfeld explore the value of those wordy notices at the end of emails from lawyers, bankers, analysts, consultants, publicists, tax advisers and government employees. The question is this: do they serve a legal purpose? Or are they just bluster? Searcey and Rothfeld write: Some lawyers say the disclaimers have…
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  • Who Has Time to Learn?

    Rachel Emma Silverman
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:24 am
    Getty Images Have you got time for this? I recently read a piece about a guy in his late 30s who took up learning guitar as a hobby and actually became a proficient player. Then I read about a young man who decided to devote an hour a day learning about something just for fun — including banjo, juggling and astrophysics. Those pieces revved me up to go out and learn something new. Although I love that journalism allows me to dabble in a range of topics, I miss the thrill of structured, focused education.  I’m not talking about going back to school full-time for a degree program, but…

  • On the Dot, All the Time

    Anusha Shrivastava
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:06 am
    Everett Collection Being on time for every appointment, every time is very important to me. Growing up, the rule in our house was simple: You can be 10 minutes early but you cannot be five minutes late. It drives me crazy if my son is still looking for his shoes when we need to be out the door at 6:45 a.m. twice a week so he can be at his school for 7 a.m. wind ensemble. En route, we pick up one of his friends, so a delay on our end means two boys arrive late, not just one. If students show up late for practice just five minutes late, even once, the band teacher says they’ll be kicked out…

  • Don’t Make Me Nag More!

    Liz Moyer
    25 Jan 2012 | 12:46 pm
    Everett Collection Everybody Nags Raymond? Nagging. It’s practically a woman’s birthright if American television sitcoms are to be believed. Doris Roberts raises nagging to an art form as the overbearing mother-in-law in Everybody Loves Raymond, as does Patricia Heaton in the role of her daughter-in-law in the same series. Actually Heaton has made a profession of playing nags. She does a pretty good job of it in her current show, The Middle, in which her character, Frankie, not only nags the life out of her husband, she’s after the kids, too. Yes nagging isn’t just for spouses. How…

  • Should Pregnancy Be Treated as a Disability?

    Rachel Emma Silverman
    25 Jan 2012 | 9:34 am
    Getty Images Should pregnancy be treated as a disability? A recent study by a University of Dayton law professor, Jeannette Cox, asserts that pregnant women should be covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, to protect them from being fired or forced to perform labor that could be harmful to mother or child. (The paper is forthcoming in March in  the Boston College Law Review.) The ADA doesn’t recognize pregnancy as a disability, leaving pregnant women physically and financially vulnerable on the job, concluded Cox, who studies employment discrimination. She found that pregnant…

  • Stressed and Loving It

    Sue Shellenbarger
    24 Jan 2012 | 9:32 am
    Being a working parent comes with plenty of stress. That’s a given. But is it good stress that propels you into “the zone,” spurring peak performance, well-being, alertness and optimism? Or is it harmful stress, that makes you anxious, less competent, unable to relax, or plagued by chronic headaches, minor illnesses or fatigue? While being “stress-free” used to be regarded as an ideal state, a growing number of researchers and therapists are coaching people to strive for a little more good stress and dial back the bad kind, as I report in my “Work & Family” column this week.
 
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  • Of FunMansions and Cheesecake Factories

    Mark Gongloff
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:26 pm
    Getty Images My God, it’s full of links! Well, this is it, my last post on this blog. My first post was on December 1, 2006. My twins were less than two months old at the time, and I was operating on no sleep, so I don’t remember posting it at all and don’t have any idea why I would have been posting in the first place. David Gaffen was off overseeing renovations on one of his sprawling estates, most likely. The title of that post was “Of FunMansions and Cheesecake Factories,” and I’d like to think that neatly sums up what it’s been like to work with…

  • Blue Chips Suffer First Weekly Drop Of 2012

    Steven Russolillo
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:12 pm
    Bloomberg The Dow Jones Industrial Average couldn’t keep its 2012 perfect game going forever. The Dow dropped 74 points on Friday and suffered its first weekly decline of the year, dipping 0.5% for the week. Friday’s 74-point loss marked the biggest single-day decline of 2012 and fourth drop out of the last five trading days. In other words, this week was a minor blip compared to what happened in the first three weeks of the year. The Dow is still up 3.6% in 2012. UPDATE: The fine folks at WSJ Market Data Group just informed us of some interesting month-end factoids. The Dow is on…

  • Data Points: U.S. Markets

    MarketBeat Staff
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:03 pm
    Dow Industrials, fell 60.02 points this week, or 0.47% to 12660.46. Today, it lost 74.17 points, or 0.58%. Biggest point and percent drop this year, since December 28, 2011. Today’s top contributors to the Dow’s movement and their point contribution: UTX (1.59), AA (0.53), INTC (0.00), BAC (-0.08), CAT (-0.23). Today’s laggards and their point contribution: CVX (-19.90), XOM (-7.11), BA (-5.75), TRV (-4.92), KO (-4.31). Nasdaq Composite, up 29.85 points this week, or 1.07% to 2816.55. Today, it added 11.27 points, or 0.40%. S&P 500, up 0.95 points this week, or 0.07% to…

  • Next Week’s Tape: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

    Mark Gongloff
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:00 pm
    Everett Economics, FedSpeak and Eurozone Foolishness: Monday EU leaders summit in Brussels Italy sells bonds France sells bills Eurozone confidence indexes for January Personal income and spending for December Tuesday Case-Shiller home prices for November Chicago ISM for January Consumer confidence for January Wednesday Eurozone PMI for January Car and truck sales for January ADP employment index Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser speaks ISM manufacturing index for January Construction spending for December Thursday France sells bonds Weekly jobless claims Fourth-quarter productivity…

  • First Quarter GDP Could Be a Big Goose Egg: Lombard Street

    Min Zeng
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:42 pm
    Everett Yes, zero! A very bearish call on the US economy from Charles Dumas, chief economist at Lombard Street Research. He argues that the unexpected element in the somewhat weak fourth-quarter GDP growth was that two thirds of it came from a build-up of inventories. The inventory contribution to growth, nearly twice what his research team’s expectation at 1.9%, means that inventories are more likely to contribute negatively to the first quarter than positively. This points to the potential weakness of both consumers and capital expenditures and, more importantly,…
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  • The Crime That’s Counted

    Carl Bialik
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:19 pm
    My print column examines the preferred benchmark crime of criminologists for tracking and comparing illegal and violent activity: homicide. It has its drawbacks, and vagaries, which I explore in the column, but remains more concrete than other crimes. “In general, the more serious the offense, the better the statistics,” said Anthony LaRose, criminologist at the University of Tampa. Homicide figures, said crime researcher Robert R. Friedmann, “are considered as close to reliable as one can get.” Friedmann, professor emeritus of criminal justice at Georgia State…

  • Private Equity’s Job Record

    Carl Bialik
    20 Jan 2012 | 8:59 pm
    My print column examines some numbers that may help shed light on the debate, central to the race for the Republican presidential nomination, about private equity’s impact on jobs. A recent academic study has added numbers to the discussion, showing the extent to which companies bought by private-equity firms accelerate both the creation and destruction of jobs, compared to similar companies that aren’t bought out. Though the study has been praised by some economists for improving on earlier ones, it has some limitations. Because of lag time in gathering statistics, and the need…

  • Elections Change Rules, Face Unforeseen Consequences

    Carl Bialik
    13 Jan 2012 | 7:13 pm
    My print column examines rule changes for this year’s voting for nominees for the Academy Award for best picture. The Academy must balance competing priorities in constructing its voting procedure, and this year it changed the rules to place more emphasis on first-place votes. Award analysts report that those, and in some cases second-place votes, will determine the nominees, which can number between five and 10. These competing priorities, and the many possible voting methods, make for a fertile area of mathematical study. Donald Saari, a mathematician at the University of California,…

  • When Polls Turn Up the Wrong Number

    Carl Bialik
    6 Jan 2012 | 8:35 pm
    My print column examines the sizable gap between what the public believes to be crucial numbers affecting their lives, and the best estimates of what those numbers really are. This gap worries some political scientists. “Many use these faulty perceptions as evidence in deciding which policies or candidates to support or which political actions to take,” said Daniel Herda, who has studied people’s beliefs about the extent of immigration in their country. “Unfortunately, most are not critical consumers of knowledge and rarely seek out multiple sources of information to…

  • A World Full of Alarming Traces

    Carl Bialik
    23 Dec 2011 | 7:36 pm
    My print column examines findings that cocaine and other alarming substances turn out to be ubiquitous on everyday objects, a result that may say more about the large number of people who come into contact with public objects and the ease of finding substances when looking at low enough concentration. The latest such study focused on baby changing stations. In a feature about cocaine this week, a U.K. radio station reported that nine in 10 of the plastic surfaces intended for changing diapers in public facilities tested positive for presence of cocaine. Real Radio Northwest posted video…
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  • Number of the Week: Dismal New Home Sales in 2011

    Phil Izzo
    28 Jan 2012 | 4:00 am
    2.5: The number of new single-family homes sold per 1,000 households. New home sales in 2011 hit their lowest level on record, but it’s difficult to express just how bad that is. Just 302,000 new single-family homes were sold last year, according to Commerce Department data released on Thursday. That was the smallest number of new houses sold going back to 1963 when data were first collected. Adjusting for population the figure looks even worse. There were about two and a half new homes sold for every 1,000 households in the U.S. last year. Prior to 2008 that number had fallen below…

  • Fed Inflation Hawks Have More Influence Outside Than In

    Eric Morath
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:11 pm
    The Federal Reserve’s hawks appear to have more influence outside the central bank’s policy meetings than they do inside. Public comments by three of the Fed’s so-called inflation hawks—the officials who tend to worry more that easy money policies may fuel price increases—triggered bigger market reactions last year than those of their more dovish chairman, Ben Bernanke, according to the latest annual analysis by Macroeconomic Advisers LLC. Indeed, hawks took seven of the top 10 slots in Macroeconomic Advisers’ ranking of “Who Moved Markets” among Fed officials. The firm…

  • Richmond Fed’s Lacker Explains His Dissent

    Jeffrey Sparshott
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:59 am
    Richmond Fed President Lacker, explaining an earlier dissent, said he doesn't believe economic conditions are likely to warrant an exceptionally low federal funds rate through late 2014.

  • Outsized Impact of Inventories on GDP Growth

    Kathleen Madigan
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:30 am
    For U.S. gross domestic product growth, the disappointment devil is in the details. Real GDP grew at a solid 2.8% annual rate in the fourth quarter, slightly missing 3.0% expectations, but still the best gain since second quarter of 2010. The report, however, was a big disappointment for investors and the outlook because of what hid underneath. The mix of growth suggests weakness this quarter and perhaps beyond. That’s because the bulk of GDP growth came from the inventory sector, which accounted for almost two percentage points of the top-line expansion. The amount of inventory added…

  • Fed’s Dudley: Policy Actions Essential for Recovery

    Anusha Shrivastava
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:40 am
    Policy actions in housing, fiscal policy and structural adjustment of the U.S. economy are essential to achieve economic recovery, which remains sluggish by historical standards, said a top Federal Reserve official Friday.
 
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  • Tough Times for the World’s Royals

    Robert Frank
    26 Jan 2012 | 1:22 pm
    If you think it’s good to be king, consider the current plight of Belgium’s King Albert II. Because of the European financial crisis and dour mood toward plutocrats and aristocrats alike, King Albert II is now using part of his multimillion-dollar salary to pay for maintaining his palaces and villas. Reuters King Albert II King Albert’s salary is adjusted each year for inflation, regardless of economic circumstances. This year his $13.8 million salary was supposed to get bumped up by $446,000. Instead, he said he will forgo the increase and use the money to pay for some of his property…

  • The 70 Billionaires at Davos

    Robert Frank
    25 Jan 2012 | 10:48 am
    Davos is often criticized as a cabal of the global elite. But maybe it’s time they got some populist credit: Only 70 of the 2,500 attendees are actual billionaire. The rest are merely powerful or millionaires. Reuters George Soros speaks during a news conference in Davos. According to an article by Matt Miller of Bloomberg, the U.S. is sending the largest contingent of billionaires, with 20. The roster includes hedge-funders Steve Cohen, Ray Dalio, and George Soros. India is sending 16 billionaires – nearly a third of the country’s total billionaire population. Russia is sending 12.

  • Mitt Romney Is in the Top 0.0025%

    Robert Frank
    24 Jan 2012 | 2:08 pm
    Mitt Romney’s income last year of $21.7 million clearly makes him rich. But how rich? Associated Press So rich, that he makes the one percenters look like the 99 percent. According to a calculation from Emmanuel Saez, the economist at the University of California at Berkley, who has become the top expert on top incomes, Mitt Romney’s income of $21.7 million puts him well above the 1%. In fact, his income puts him in about the 99.9975% income bracket.  Put another way, Mitt is in the top 0.0025%. According to Saez, who told me he used “the standard Pareto fit” for the Mitt…

  • Will Super Bowl XLVI Set the Private Jet Record?

    Robert Frank
    23 Jan 2012 | 3:50 pm
    For the private jet business, the Super Bowl is the, well, Super Bowl of private jet rentals. Every year, like monarchs to Mexico, a swarm of private jets descends on the big game to unload the rich and powerful football fans.  There’s  no tailgating under the tail fins, or downing buffalo wings on the wing of the G550. But for some reason, private-jetting and football have always gone well together for February’s big game. The question is whether the current rage against the rich, and general lack of public support for private jet-setters, will put a damper on this year’s Citation…

  • Did Rich Russians Buy Their Way to Safety On Costa Concordia?

    Robert Frank
    23 Jan 2012 | 12:16 pm
    Reports in the European press say that wealthy Russians paid “wads of cash” to get on the lifeboats as the Costa Concordia cruise ship was going down. EPA The reports say Italian prosecutors are investigating claims from other passengers and witnesses on shore who said  rich Russians paid the money to get an early spot on the lifeboats. A resident of Giglio, where the lifeboats made shore after the disaster, told German media: “I went to the boats as I saw them coming in expecting to see women, children and the injured but all I saw were healthy men and elegant women in…
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  • Money to Spend

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:30 am
    Brian Rogers, Chairman of T. Rowe Price, tells Michael Santoli at the 2012 Barron's Roundtable conference that investors are sitting on a lot of money that earns very little in money-market funds, and are waiting for the right moment to reinvest it in stocks. The news on Wall Street is much better than the news in Washington and Europe, he says.

  • GOP Courts Florida's Hispanic Community

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:56 pm
    GOP presidential candidates tried to woo one of Florida's key constituencies at the annual Hispanic Leadership Network conference in Miami on Friday. WSJ's Arian Campo-Flores reports. (Photo: Getty)

  • Saving Makes No Sense

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:23 pm
    MarketWatch senior columnist Chuck Jaffe says the Federal Reserve is telling savers now that cash is trash, but many people might not like the alternatives. Photo: Getty Images.

  • Opinion: The Global Warming Hoax

    27 Jan 2012 | 5:38 pm
    Princeton physics professor William Happer on why a large number of scientists don't believe that carbon dioxide is causing global warming.

  • Opinion: The Polling Pendulum

    27 Jan 2012 | 5:37 pm
    Larry Sabato on last night's debate, the rapidly shifting poll numbers, and who he expects to come out on top in Florida next Tuesday.
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  • Arizona Governor and Obama Clash at Airport

    26 Jan 2012 | 1:49 pm
    President Obama and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer were seen engaged in an intense conversation at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in Arizona on Wednesday. Later Brewer explained the president was "a little disturbed" by parts of her new book. (Video: Fox News/Photo: AP)

  • USTR's Kirk on Global Trade Issues

    26 Jan 2012 | 1:44 pm
    U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, from Davos, discusses potential advances in U.S.-European trade and the need to keep China and all nations in compliance with trade rules. He speaks to Dow Jones' Managing Editor Neal Lipschutz.

  • Protesters Attack Australian PM Gillard

    26 Jan 2012 | 4:12 am
    Protesters rushed Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard at a Canberra restaurant but caused no injuries. Ms. Gillard was bundled out by security service agents, losing a shoe during her escape. Video: Sky News AU. Photo: Lukas Coch/AFP/Getty

  • Cosmic Gongs Tuned to Frequencies From Space

    25 Jan 2012 | 9:30 pm
    Gongs that sound like whale calls or are tuned to the cosmic frequencies of minor planets--Andrew Borakove has them all. WSJ's Barry Newman reports from Gongs Unlimited, in Lincoln, Nebraska.

  • Earth Braces for Largest Solar Storm in Decade

    24 Jan 2012 | 3:55 pm
    The U.S. is bracing for the impact of the largest solar storm in almost a decade. Eric Holthaus joins the News Hub to discuss what to expect for travel and electrical devices. Photo: AFP / Getty Images.
 
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  • A Pile of Worries

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:30 am
    Abby Joseph Cohen, of Goldman Sachs, tells Michael Santoli at the 2012 Barron's Roundtable conference that stocks are relatively inexpensive because investors are concerned about corporate earnings, economic conditions in Europe and political uncertainty in the U.S. in an election year. The U.S economy will slow in the first half of 2012, she says, but there won't be a recession.

  • Money to Spend

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:30 am
    Brian Rogers, Chairman of T. Rowe Price, tells Michael Santoli at the 2012 Barron's Roundtable conference that investors are sitting on a lot of money that earns very little in money-market funds, and are waiting for the right moment to reinvest it in stocks. The news on Wall Street is much better than the news in Washington and Europe, he says.

  • Ready to Buy Tech Stocks

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:30 am
    Fred Hickey, editor of the High-Tech Strategist, tells Michael Santoli at the 2012 Barron's Roundtable conference that the 12-year bear market in technology stocks could end this year. He is looking for opportunities to invest in well-known tech companies at discount prices.

  • Tough Times for Investors

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:30 am
    Scott Black, head of Delphi Management, tells Michael Santoli at the 2012 Barron's Roundtable conference that U.S. companies are flush with cash. But a slowing economy, partisan bickering in Washington and the debt crisis in Europe will make it hard for the stock market to show big gains this year.

  • GOP Courts Florida's Hispanic Community

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:56 pm
    GOP presidential candidates tried to woo one of Florida's key constituencies at the annual Hispanic Leadership Network conference in Miami on Friday. WSJ's Arian Campo-Flores reports. (Photo: Getty)
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  • Marco Rubio's Hot Political Love Triangle

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:16 pm
    Freshman Florida Senator Marco Rubio is delicately balancing two suitors with whom he has close ties: Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney. Carol Lee has details on The News Hub. Photo: Reuters

  • Obama's First Re-Election Campaign Ad

    27 Jan 2012 | 2:11 pm
    In the first ad for his re-election campaign President Obama defends his energy record. (Video: AP)

  • Obama Finishes Five-Day Battleground State Tour

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:26 pm
    President Obama finished up a five-day tour of battleground states in the days since the State of the Union. Aaron Zitner reports on Lunch Break. Photo: Getty Images.

  • Gingrich Blends Potential With Peril

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:10 am
    In the middle of Newt Gingrich's stint as House Speaker in the 1990s came a moment of intrigue that still resonates today: Republicans, including some of his closest lieutenants, plotted a coup. Naftali Bendavid has details on Campaign Journal.

  • Santorum's Main Backer Plans to Keep on Funding

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:07 am
    While Rick Santorum is in Florida seeking to revive his presidential campaign, a man in Wyoming might hold the key to extending his candidacy, and the entire fight for the Republican nomination. Brody Mullins has details on Campaign Journal.
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  • Nutting: Let's Double-Think That Austerity Idea

    27 Jan 2012 | 1:49 pm
    Marketwatch.com columnist Rex Nutting has answer for all of the talk of government austerity being proposed by world leaders: if everyone cut back at once, it would be economic disaster. Photo: AP.

  • Davos: Has a Euro Disaster Really Been Averted?

    27 Jan 2012 | 1:45 pm
    Neal Lipschutz checks in on Mean Street from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Photo: Agence France-Presse/Getty Images.

  • Codelco Confident Over Anglo American Fight

    27 Jan 2012 | 1:39 pm
    The world's biggest copper producer, Chile's Codelco, is embroiled in a battle with mining giant Anglo American over Codelco's right to buy a stake in a key copper mine. Codelco CEO tells the WSJ why he is confident his firm will ultimately win.

  • Apple Memo Pledges to Tackle Poor Labor Condition

    27 Jan 2012 | 1:37 pm
    Barron's Online Technology Editor Tiernan Ray discusses an internal memo sent by Apple CEO Tim Cook to employees promising that the company will address poor labor conditions at Apple supplier factories.

  • Twitter Announces it Can Censor By Nation

    27 Jan 2012 | 1:31 pm
    Twitter says it can now make content selectively available to users based on geography, and plans to use that ability to enter countries with "different ideas" about freedom of expression as a human right. Tom Loftus reports for Digits.
 
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  • Saving Makes No Sense

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:23 pm
    MarketWatch senior columnist Chuck Jaffe says the Federal Reserve is telling savers now that cash is trash, but many people might not like the alternatives. Photo: Getty Images.

  • Beckerman Creates Sonic Branding and Music Logos

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:57 pm
    Musician Joel Beckerman is known for "sonic branding" -- compositions more subtle than a jingle but designed to send a corporate message. Here are some of his works, including his recent theme song for AT&T that ends with a four-note "logo." Photo: Shannon Taggart for The Wall Street Journal.

  • Facebook Readies IPO Filing for Next Week

    27 Jan 2012 | 3:59 pm
    Facebook is close to picking Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriter for its initial public offering, a significant step toward what is likely to be one of the biggest-ever U.S. public debuts. Don Clark has details on The News Hub. Photo: Reuters

  • On the Mark: Know Your Hypocrisy!

    27 Jan 2012 | 2:14 pm
    In his 'On the Mark' segment, Mean Street host Evan Newmark looks once again at the nature of man and advises his viewers: know your hypocrisy. Photo: Getty Images.

  • Wall Street Has Seen This Netflix Movie Before

    27 Jan 2012 | 2:03 pm
    Marketwatch.com columnist Jon Friedman visits Mean Street and says despite Netflix's 22% pop this week, many on Wall Street have seen this movie before and are likely hesitant to buy into a long-term investment. Photo: Getty Images.
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  • Saving Makes No Sense

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:23 pm
    MarketWatch senior columnist Chuck Jaffe says the Federal Reserve is telling savers now that cash is trash, but many people might not like the alternatives. Photo: Getty Images.

  • Wall Street Has Seen This Netflix Movie Before

    27 Jan 2012 | 2:03 pm
    Marketwatch.com columnist Jon Friedman visits Mean Street and says despite Netflix's 22% pop this week, many on Wall Street have seen this movie before and are likely hesitant to buy into a long-term investment. Photo: Getty Images.

  • Rosy Pension Forecast Can Be Bad for Corporations

    27 Jan 2012 | 1:55 pm
    WSJ 'Intelligent Investor' Jason Zweig visits Mean Street to discuss the rosy - and in many cases, unrealistic - pension fund projection corporations announce based on stock returns. Photo: Getty Images.

  • Nutting: Let's Double-Think That Austerity Idea

    27 Jan 2012 | 1:49 pm
    Marketwatch.com columnist Rex Nutting has answer for all of the talk of government austerity being proposed by world leaders: if everyone cut back at once, it would be economic disaster. Photo: AP.

  • Davos: Has a Euro Disaster Really Been Averted?

    27 Jan 2012 | 1:45 pm
    Neal Lipschutz checks in on Mean Street from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Photo: Agence France-Presse/Getty Images.
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  • Jessica Alba Launches 'The Honest Company'

    25 Jan 2012 | 7:31 pm
    Actress Jessica Alba has launched 'The Honest Company', a new online business offering a line of eco-friendly and non-toxic baby products. (Photo: Getty Images)

  • Does Sight of Arterial Plaque Scare Smokers? Nope.

    25 Jan 2012 | 9:32 am
    WSJ's Katherine Hobson has details of a study of smokers indicating that dramatic photos of plaque buildup did not improve quit rates. AFP PHOTO/Karen BLEIER/FILES

  • Bill Gates: The Challenges of Global Health

    24 Jan 2012 | 11:05 am
    Bill Gates tells WSJ's Gautam Naik about the progress his foundation has made in fighting dangerous diseases in the developing world and argues that economic slowdown is no excuse for governments to reduce their commitment towards global health.

  • Battle of the Housecleaning Workouts

    23 Jan 2012 | 9:30 pm
    Stevie Markovich's "Aerobic Housecleaning Lifestyle" video came out in 2002, but now it has some stiff competition: Carolyn Barnes' "Clean Momma Program," complete with her signature move, the Rag Drag. WSJ's James R. Hagerty reports.

  • How the Brain's Wiring Forms Thoughts and Emotions

    23 Jan 2012 | 6:00 pm
    New techniques, including advances in brain scans, are helping to reveal the hidden anatomy of brain wiring and giving scientists a new understanding of how thoughts, memories and emotions are formed. WSJ's Robert Lee Hotz reports.
 
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  • Who Gets to Own Colors?

    25 Jan 2012 | 11:14 am
    UPS and Tiffany each own their own particular shades, but does Christian Louboutin also lay claim to red soles? Ashby Jones discusses on Markets Hub. (Photo: Lindsay Holmes)

  • When Lawyers Become 'Trolls'

    23 Jan 2012 | 2:15 pm
    WSJ's Ashby Jones makes a stop on Mean Street to discuss instances where lawyers have become 'trolls.' That is, they have switched sides. He specifically points to lawyers in patent-defense cases.

  • Court Backs Privacy Rights in GPS Case

    23 Jan 2012 | 12:59 pm
    The Supreme Court ruled that police must obtain a warrant before attaching a GPS tracker to a suspect's vehicle, voting unanimously in one of the first major cases to test constitutional privacy rights in the digital age, Jess Bravin reports on digits. Photo: Getty Images.

  • FBI Agent Who 'Flips' Insider Trading Witnesses

    20 Jan 2012 | 9:41 am
    WSJ's Jenny Strasburg has details of FBI agent David Makol, known for convincing people to gather evidence against friends of theirs under FBI investigation. Photo: Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal

  • Settlements in News Corp. Phone Hacking Cases

    19 Jan 2012 | 9:29 am
    WSJ London Bureau Chief Bruce Orwall has details of settlements reached in phone-hacking lawsuits brought against News Corporation. AP Photo.
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    WSJ.com Video - Media & Marketing

  • Beckerman Creates Sonic Branding and Music Logos

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:57 pm
    Musician Joel Beckerman is known for "sonic branding" -- compositions more subtle than a jingle but designed to send a corporate message. Here are some of his works, including his recent theme song for AT&T that ends with a four-note "logo." Photo: Shannon Taggart for The Wall Street Journal.

  • Cable on the Cheap

    27 Jan 2012 | 1:52 pm
    SmartMoney reporter Kelli B. Grant reports that cable bills are getting cheaper but with limitations on channel access.

  • Why Now Is the Time to Buy a Big-Screen TV

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:35 pm
    Sports fans in the market for a new TV set before the Super Bowl may be in luck: Electronics and retail experts say many current TV sales are some of the best ever -- even beating holiday-season deals. Kelli Grant has details on Lunch Break.

  • Google to Make Anonymity Harder

    25 Jan 2012 | 1:33 pm
    Google said it would start combining nearly all the information it has on its users, which could make it harder for them to remain anonymous, Julia Angwin reports on digits. Photo: AP.

  • Club Med's CEO on Reinventing the Resort Company

    24 Jan 2012 | 6:58 pm
    Club Med CEO Henri Giscard D'Estaing sits down with WSJ's Kris Hudson to discuss the transformation of Club Med's resorts and the company's plans for 2012, including moving into China.
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    WSJ.com Video - Environmental Capital

  • How to Pick the Most Efficient Bulb

    18 Jan 2012 | 12:53 pm
    Katherine Boehret joins digits to discuss how to make sense of the latest energy-efficient light bulbs.

  • Politicians Warming Up to Fracking?

    6 Jan 2012 | 2:21 pm
    WSJ's Liam Denning checks in on Mean Street to discuss the controversy surrounding the natural gas drilling method known as fracking, and an apparent change in position on the topic by House Natural Resources committee member Rep. Ed Markey. Photo: AP.

  • The Best Health Stories of 2011

    30 Dec 2011 | 4:21 pm
    From breakthrough drug treatments on the war on cancer to Japan's food radiation scare, health news in 2011 abounded. Here's a glimpse of some of the most important stories that hit WSJ headlines.

  • Bats on a Collision Course With Wind Power

    9 Dec 2011 | 4:36 pm
    One of the growing threats to wind power in the U.S. is a quarter-ounce creature called the Indiana bat, an example of how environmental concerns are beginning to affect renewable energy's bottom line. Ryan Tracy discusses on The News Hub. Photo: AP

  • Student Recruits in City's Energy Effort

    8 Dec 2011 | 5:35 pm
    As part of New York City's goal to reduce energy consumption by 30% in its buildings, officials are turning to an unusual resource: city students. WSJ's Sophia Hollander visits a Bronx classroom to find out how.
 
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  • Even Bankrupt Companies Dish Out High CEO Pay

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:28 pm
    As companies struggle through bankruptcy court, many still pay significant bonuses to top executives - despite a federal rule designed to curb such pay. Mike Spector reports on Lunch Break. Photo: Getty Images.

  • Club Med's CEO on Reinventing the Resort Company

    24 Jan 2012 | 6:58 pm
    Club Med CEO Henri Giscard D'Estaing sits down with WSJ's Kris Hudson to discuss the transformation of Club Med's resorts and the company's plans for 2012, including moving into China.

  • Will RIM's New Strategy Pay Off?

    23 Jan 2012 | 12:53 pm
    Research in Motion has gone to a single CEO, but will the rest of the rest of its corporate strategy evolve with it? Spencer Ante discusses on digits.

  • New RIM CEO's Message to Employees

    22 Jan 2012 | 10:24 pm
    BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion Ltd. said late Sunday its two co-chief executives and co-chairmen stepped down, and the board promoted one of RIM's chief operating officers, Thorsten Heins, to take the top job. In this video, Mr. Heins shares his message to employees.

  • Lessons Pandora's Founder Learned

    19 Jan 2012 | 1:35 pm
    Tim Westergren was working as a film composer in the late 1990s when he came up with the idea behind Pandora Media. Sarah Needleman discusses the company's strategy post-IPO. Photo: Getty Images.
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  • A Pile of Worries

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:30 am
    Abby Joseph Cohen, of Goldman Sachs, tells Michael Santoli at the 2012 Barron's Roundtable conference that stocks are relatively inexpensive because investors are concerned about corporate earnings, economic conditions in Europe and political uncertainty in the U.S. in an election year. The U.S economy will slow in the first half of 2012, she says, but there won't be a recession.

  • Money to Spend

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:30 am
    Brian Rogers, Chairman of T. Rowe Price, tells Michael Santoli at the 2012 Barron's Roundtable conference that investors are sitting on a lot of money that earns very little in money-market funds, and are waiting for the right moment to reinvest it in stocks. The news on Wall Street is much better than the news in Washington and Europe, he says.

  • Ready to Buy Tech Stocks

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:30 am
    Fred Hickey, editor of the High-Tech Strategist, tells Michael Santoli at the 2012 Barron's Roundtable conference that the 12-year bear market in technology stocks could end this year. He is looking for opportunities to invest in well-known tech companies at discount prices.

  • Tough Times for Investors

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:30 am
    Scott Black, head of Delphi Management, tells Michael Santoli at the 2012 Barron's Roundtable conference that U.S. companies are flush with cash. But a slowing economy, partisan bickering in Washington and the debt crisis in Europe will make it hard for the stock market to show big gains this year.

  • Asia Week Ahead: Electronics Giants Post Earnings

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:34 pm
    Investors will find financial results front and center: Sony will dominate early, while later attention will turn to Panasonic, with both reports expected to show the impact of a weaker dollar and natural disasters, including the quake and tsunami in Japan and flooding in Thailand. Reults from Toshiba, Sharp and Hitachi are also due.
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  • Top 5 in Tech Fri, Jan. 27th 2014

    28 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am
    Who is Kim Dotcom? How Zynga is reading for itself for online gambling and why Facebook and twitter are calling foul on Google. All that and more in this week's top five in tech.

  • Ready to Buy Tech Stocks

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:30 am
    Fred Hickey, editor of the High-Tech Strategist, tells Michael Santoli at the 2012 Barron's Roundtable conference that the 12-year bear market in technology stocks could end this year. He is looking for opportunities to invest in well-known tech companies at discount prices.

  • Facebook Readies IPO Filing for Next Week

    27 Jan 2012 | 3:59 pm
    Facebook is close to picking Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriter for its initial public offering, a significant step toward what is likely to be one of the biggest-ever U.S. public debuts. Don Clark has details on The News Hub. Photo: Reuters

  • Wall Street Has Seen This Netflix Movie Before

    27 Jan 2012 | 2:03 pm
    Marketwatch.com columnist Jon Friedman visits Mean Street and says despite Netflix's 22% pop this week, many on Wall Street have seen this movie before and are likely hesitant to buy into a long-term investment. Photo: Getty Images.

  • Jon Rubinstein Exits Hewlett-Packard

    27 Jan 2012 | 1:58 pm
    Jon Rubinstein, the former Apple executive who took over handheld maker Palm and moved with it to Hewlett-Packard in a 2010 acquisition, has left HP effective today. Arik Hesseldahl reports on Digits.
 
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  • Mossberg: Skype Chat as Room-Sized Experience

    25 Jan 2012 | 5:22 pm
    Walt Mossberg tests a new device that aims to transform Skype video chats into room-sized experiences . TelyHD lets families or groups of friends video chat using TVs instead of computers.

  • Mossberg: Nokia's Cheap Reliable $50 Phone

    19 Jan 2012 | 1:15 pm
    Walt Mossberg reviews Nokia's Lumia 710, the $50 device that gets the most common smartphone tasks done for a bargain price.

  • How Much Smartphone Can You Get for Fifty Bucks?

    18 Jan 2012 | 8:00 pm
    Walt Mossberg tests out Nokia's Lumia 710 smartphone and finds it's a good value for users looking to enter into the smartphone market. The Lumia 710 runs Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system and connects to T-Mobile's 4G network.

  • Walt Mossberg Reviews OnLive Desktop

    11 Jan 2012 | 8:00 pm
    Walt Mossberg's review of a new app and service that brings the full, Windows versions of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint to the iPad, free of charge.

  • Walt Mossberg Reviews CES

    10 Jan 2012 | 9:57 pm
    Walt Mossberg walks the CES floor with Katie Boehret and finds less "newness" at this year's event, noting that the absent Apple looms over the show.
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    WSJ.com Video - Personal Finance

  • A Pile of Worries

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:30 am
    Abby Joseph Cohen, of Goldman Sachs, tells Michael Santoli at the 2012 Barron's Roundtable conference that stocks are relatively inexpensive because investors are concerned about corporate earnings, economic conditions in Europe and political uncertainty in the U.S. in an election year. The U.S economy will slow in the first half of 2012, she says, but there won't be a recession.

  • Money to Spend

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:30 am
    Brian Rogers, Chairman of T. Rowe Price, tells Michael Santoli at the 2012 Barron's Roundtable conference that investors are sitting on a lot of money that earns very little in money-market funds, and are waiting for the right moment to reinvest it in stocks. The news on Wall Street is much better than the news in Washington and Europe, he says.

  • Ready to Buy Tech Stocks

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:30 am
    Fred Hickey, editor of the High-Tech Strategist, tells Michael Santoli at the 2012 Barron's Roundtable conference that the 12-year bear market in technology stocks could end this year. He is looking for opportunities to invest in well-known tech companies at discount prices.

  • Tough Times for Investors

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:30 am
    Scott Black, head of Delphi Management, tells Michael Santoli at the 2012 Barron's Roundtable conference that U.S. companies are flush with cash. But a slowing economy, partisan bickering in Washington and the debt crisis in Europe will make it hard for the stock market to show big gains this year.

  • Saving Makes No Sense

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:23 pm
    MarketWatch senior columnist Chuck Jaffe says the Federal Reserve is telling savers now that cash is trash, but many people might not like the alternatives. Photo: Getty Images.
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    WSJ.com Video - Funds

  • Can Diversification Really Protect Your Portfolio?

    9 Jan 2012 | 11:54 am
    If diversification doesn't shield your portfolio, what will? WSJ's Karen Damato joins Paul Vigna on The Markets Hub with the answers. (Photo: Getty Images).

  • Investing in Mutual Funds Like Running NFL Team

    9 Jan 2012 | 10:13 am
    Investing in mutual funds is a bit like running a pro football team. Everything is fine if you make the playoffs but if a season ends and the numbers are ugly, you want to fire the coach, Chuck Jaffe argues on Markets Hub. (Photo: AP/Joe Mahoney)

  • Wealth: The Search For Safety, Alternatives

    5 Jan 2012 | 12:47 pm
    The wealthy are looking for safety and opportunity. Plus, a look at what alternatives advisers like now. And, how women are different when it comes to philanthropy. Dow Jones Wealth Adviser's Veronica Dagher reports.Photo: Getty Images

  • NY Jet's Bart Scott Can Wait To Retire

    30 Dec 2011 | 6:30 am
    The New York Jet's Bart Scott and Merrill Lynch Financial Adviser Reggie Wilkes talk about the challenges pro athletes face when it comes to saving, spending and investing. Dow Jones Wealth Adviser's Veronica Dagher reports. Photo: Getty Images

  • Gold, Commodities Poised to Rise

    29 Dec 2011 | 4:18 pm
    Michael Cuggino, manager of the Permanent Portfolio Fund, says commodities have been oversold. He tells Jonathan Burton that investors in 2012 will boost prices of gold, copper and other commodities to reflect modest, but real, economic growth. Photo: Getty Images.
 
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    WSJ.com Video - Lifestyle

  • Weekend Conversations: Nada Surf

    28 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am
    Matthew Caws and Daniel Lorca of the rock band Nada Surf sit down with WSJ's Jim Fusilli to talk about their new album "The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy," their international following and what they think of the term "power pop."

  • Back to Nature With Van Gogh

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:10 pm
    Vincent Van Gogh had his problems, that's for sure. But fortunately for him, and us, the Dutch painter was able to self-medicate. And the Philadelphia Museum's current retrospective of his work in nature unveils his particular skills at bringing landscapes to life. WSJ's Dan Neil reports.

  • Beckerman Creates Sonic Branding and Music Logos

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:57 pm
    Musician Joel Beckerman is known for "sonic branding" -- compositions more subtle than a jingle but designed to send a corporate message. Here are some of his works, including his recent theme song for AT&T that ends with a four-note "logo." Photo: Shannon Taggart for The Wall Street Journal.

  • A Horse's Sprint to the Kentucky Derby

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:37 pm
    This weekend's Holy Bull Stakes at South Florida's Gulfstream Park will play a key role in shaping the field for this year's Kentucky Derby. As Pia Catton explains on The News Hub, the horse to watch is Hansen. Photo: Reuters

  • Attack of the Fine Print

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:33 pm
    Small print has become a giant menace, costing consumers a $250 million a year. SmartMoney's Missy Sullivan on The News Hub discusses new ways to avoid the typical fine print traps.
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    WSJ.com Video - Books

  • Oprah Takes on India

    19 Jan 2012 | 10:53 pm
    The Jaipur Literature Festival attracts thousands of publishers, writers and book lovers around the world. As the WSJ's Margherita Stancati tells Deborah Kan, Oprah and Deepak Chopra are among stars making an appearance this year.

  • Enhanced eBooks: Next Frontier or Passing Fad?

    19 Jan 2012 | 12:30 pm
    A new crop of digital books comes loaded with videos, songs, animated shorts and pop-up graphics. Is this the future of publishing or just a passing fad? Alexandra Alter has details on Lunch Break.

  • Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed

    6 Jan 2012 | 5:38 pm
    Science writer Carl Zimmer talks with WSJ's Gary Rosen about his new book, "Science Ink," which includes images and stories of those who love science so much, they decide to put it permanently on their body.

  • Barnes & Noble Weighs Spinning Off Nook Business

    6 Jan 2012 | 10:33 am
    Given the expense of running Barnes & Noble's Nook business, can the digital business run better on its own? John Jannarone discusses on Markets Hub. Photo: REUTERS.

  • Christopher Hitchens Dies at Age 62

    16 Dec 2011 | 12:52 pm
    Christopher Hitchens, the best-selling author, essayist and polemicist died Thursday night after a long battle with cancer. He was 62. WSJ Weekend Review Editor Gary Rosen discusses the Hitchens legacy on Lunch Break.
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    WSJ.com Video - Arts & Entertainment

  • Weekend Conversations: Nada Surf

    28 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am
    Matthew Caws and Daniel Lorca of the rock band Nada Surf sit down with WSJ's Jim Fusilli to talk about their new album "The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy," their international following and what they think of the term "power pop."

  • Back to Nature With Van Gogh

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:10 pm
    Vincent Van Gogh had his problems, that's for sure. But fortunately for him, and us, the Dutch painter was able to self-medicate. And the Philadelphia Museum's current retrospective of his work in nature unveils his particular skills at bringing landscapes to life. WSJ's Dan Neil reports.

  • Beckerman Creates Sonic Branding and Music Logos

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:57 pm
    Musician Joel Beckerman is known for "sonic branding" -- compositions more subtle than a jingle but designed to send a corporate message. Here are some of his works, including his recent theme song for AT&T that ends with a four-note "logo." Photo: Shannon Taggart for The Wall Street Journal.

  • Cable on the Cheap

    27 Jan 2012 | 1:52 pm
    SmartMoney reporter Kelli B. Grant reports that cable bills are getting cheaper but with limitations on channel access.

  • HBO Documentary Examines Life of Freddie Roach

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:05 am
    Peter Berg directed the HBO documentary miniseries "On Freddie Roach" which profiles the trainer of world-class boxers such as Manny Pacquiao and documents his struggle with Parkinson's disease. (Photo: AP)
 
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  • Haute Couture Makes a Comeback

    25 Jan 2012 | 12:35 pm
    Until recently, haute couture seemed to be on its last legs. Yet names such as Atelier Versace and Giambattista Valli are now filling the void left by retreating couture houses. Christina Passariello has details from Paris on Lunch Break.

  • Where Fashion Is a Family Affair

    25 Jan 2012 | 12:28 pm
    How is it that so many Italian families manage to pass their fashion houses and textile factories down through the generations? Christina Binkley on Lunch Break looks at the eccentric way the family behind the Etro brand works together.

  • Who Gets to Own Colors?

    25 Jan 2012 | 11:14 am
    UPS and Tiffany each own their own particular shades, but does Christian Louboutin also lay claim to red soles? Ashby Jones discusses on Markets Hub. (Photo: Lindsay Holmes)

  • Dolce & Gabbana Drama Riles Up Hong Kong

    18 Jan 2012 | 10:45 pm
    Dolce & Gabbana Hong Kong sparked outrage this month when it forbade locals, but not Mainland Chinese, from taking photos of the store. Following public protest, the Italian luxury brand has apologized. WSJ's Deborah Kan and Jason Chow discuss.

  • 'Pajama-Look' Expands Beyond the Bedroom

    18 Jan 2012 | 2:04 pm
    Teens are dressing like they just got out of bed. Teen retailers are pushing sweatpants, pajama pants, slipper-like shoes and camisoles, having finally found something to replace the overworked hoodie. Elizabeth Holmes has details on Lunch Break.
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    WSJ.com Video - Sports

  • A Horse's Sprint to the Kentucky Derby

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:37 pm
    This weekend's Holy Bull Stakes at South Florida's Gulfstream Park will play a key role in shaping the field for this year's Kentucky Derby. As Pia Catton explains on The News Hub, the horse to watch is Hansen. Photo: Reuters

  • Baseball's Cholesterol Problem

    27 Jan 2012 | 2:11 pm
    WSJ sports reporter Matt Futterman makes a stop on Mean Street to look at the latest challenge facing baseball: cholesterol. He points out that three of the sport's current superstars weigh in at a collective 825 pounds. Photo: Getty Images.

  • HBO Documentary Examines Life of Freddie Roach

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:05 am
    Peter Berg directed the HBO documentary miniseries "On Freddie Roach" which profiles the trainer of world-class boxers such as Manny Pacquiao and documents his struggle with Parkinson's disease. (Photo: AP)

  • NFL Allows Players to Tweet from Pro Bowl

    26 Jan 2012 | 1:36 pm
    During this year's Pro Bowl, the NFL will allow players to tweet from the sidelines, Matthew Futterman reports on digits. Photo: Getty Images.

  • Friday Night Lights (Out) for Texas District

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:18 pm
    In sports-mad Texas, where Friday-night football is nearly as sacred as Sunday church services, one rural school district is taking the once-unthinkable step of shutting down its high-school sports program. Ann Zimmerman has details on Lunch Break.
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    WSJ.com Video - Travel

  • Eric Ripert's Favorite Airport Eats

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:46 pm
    Le Bernardin chef Eric Ripert dishes on his favorite places to eat in airports around the world, Sara Clemence reports on Lunch Break.

  • Falconry, Gladiator Skills and Arcane Outings

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:44 pm
    Heidi Mitchell reports on a family falconry outing, plus five other places to learn spear-fishing, gladiator skills and other arcane sports. Photo: Gleneagles Hotel.

  • How to Spend a Weekend in Los Angeles

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:36 pm
    Kevin Sintumuang discusses how to pack a week's worth of foodie hangouts and contemporary architecture into a long weekend in Los Angeles. Photo: Amando Marsalis for the Wall Street Journal.

  • New Marriott Chief Sees Weak Europe

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:12 pm
    Arne Sorenson, the man who will take over as Marriott's chief executive in March, spoke to the WSJ's Gerard Baker during his first visit to Davos.

  • Flying High Without the Business Class Price

    25 Jan 2012 | 12:22 pm
    "Premium economy" is the fastest growing offering from airlines, offering room to stretch at a more affordable price than business class. Scott McCartney on Lunch Break looks at the spread of the services and what it offers.
 
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    WSJ.com Video - Careers

  • A New Challenge for College-Aid Seekers

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:13 pm
    College financial aid season has just kicked off, and experts say students seeking state grants had better act fast. AnnMaria Andriotis has details on Lunch Break.

  • Use Philanthropy to Win New Business

    26 Jan 2012 | 10:56 am
    Philanthropy can be a effective way to meet prospects and win new business if done right. Dow Jones Wealth Adviser's Veronica Dagher shares some tips on how advisers can do so.

  • Wealth: Succession Tips For Business Owners

    25 Jan 2012 | 10:01 am
    Succession planning is a crucial step many business owners put off. One adviser gives tips on what business owners need to do. Plus, don't count on an election year bounce. And, a look at small and mid-cap stocks. Dow Jones Wealth Adviser's Veronica Dagher reports.

  • What Happens When You Submit a Resume Online?

    23 Jan 2012 | 4:23 pm
    What happens to a resume after it's submitted online? Job seekers who apply to positions online complain that they rarely even receive a confirmation, let alone a personal response. Lauren Weber has details on The News Hub. Photo: Getty Images

  • U.S. Losing High-Tech, Research Jobs to Asia

    18 Jan 2012 | 9:01 am
    WSJ's Bob Hagerty reports a substantial number of U.S. research and development jobs are shifting overseas, and specifically to Asia. AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File
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    WSJ.com Video - Real Estate

  • Can You Finally Sell Your House This Year?

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:26 pm
    Could the slowly improving economy, more favorable housing market data and record low mortgage rates entice more buyers into the market this year? Amy Hoak on The News Hub looks at what home sellers should know before listing. Photo: AP

  • Mats Wilander Cuts Price on Idaho Estate to $5.9M

    26 Jan 2012 | 5:21 pm
    Former tennis champion Mats Wilander has put his 81-acre estate in Sun Valley, Idaho, back on the market, trimming its price to $5.9 million. It was originally listed in June 2008 for $8.5 million. Candace Jackson has details on The News Hub.

  • Phil Mickelson Relists San Diego Home for $7.1M

    26 Jan 2012 | 5:16 pm
    Golf champion Phil Mickelson has put his 9,500-square-foot, five-bedroom Tuscan-style home in Rancho Santa Fe, a wealthy enclave of San Diego, back on the market for the reduced price of $7.1 million. Candace Jackson has details on The News Hub.

  • Oil Magnate Asks $25M for South Beach Penthouse

    26 Jan 2012 | 5:04 pm
    Billionaire oil magnate Tim Headington is asking $25 million for a Miami Beach penthouse suite next door to a unit owned by Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. Candace Jackson has details on The News Hub.

  • Top Builder Creates Weekend Retreat for Less

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:23 pm
    Dick Breaux, a top Silicon Valley builder of luxury homes, uses his experience to create his weekend retreat for less. Nancy Keates has details on Lunch Break.
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  • Use Philanthropy to Win New Business

    26 Jan 2012 | 10:56 am
    Philanthropy can be a effective way to meet prospects and win new business if done right. Dow Jones Wealth Adviser's Veronica Dagher shares some tips on how advisers can do so.

  • Wealth: Succession Tips For Business Owners

    25 Jan 2012 | 10:01 am
    Succession planning is a crucial step many business owners put off. One adviser gives tips on what business owners need to do. Plus, don't count on an election year bounce. And, a look at small and mid-cap stocks. Dow Jones Wealth Adviser's Veronica Dagher reports.

  • The Return of Small-Business Credit Cards

    17 Jan 2012 | 4:31 pm
    Lenders are courting small-business owners with growing numbers of new credit cards and generous rewards programs. AnnaMaria Andriotis has details on The News Hub. Photo: Reuters

  • The Secret Behind Making the Perfect Two-Step Pair

    15 Jan 2012 | 4:23 pm
    Lee Miller's intricately decorated custom-made boots are adored by celebrities and fans willing to wait four years and shell out up to $8,500 per pair. But the secret to his success, he says, is getting the perfect fit.

  • Greeks Reaching for Australian Dream Amid Turmoil

    13 Jan 2012 | 9:30 pm
    Australia is becoming the prime destination for Greeks looking to escape political turmoil and economic woes at home. The WSJ's Deborah Kan and Geoffrey Rogow discuss the latest immigration trend on Asia Today.
 
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    WSJ.com Video - Journal Reports

  • Can Diversification Really Protect Your Portfolio?

    9 Jan 2012 | 11:54 am
    If diversification doesn't shield your portfolio, what will? WSJ's Karen Damato joins Paul Vigna on The Markets Hub with the answers. (Photo: Getty Images).

  • Is It True Smiling Improves Your Mood?

    23 Oct 2011 | 4:00 pm
    Can smiling really boost your mood? WSJ's Christina Tsuei takes a look at the science behind smiling, in this latest installment of "Is It True?"

  • An Expert on MBA Admissions

    5 Oct 2011 | 12:00 pm
    Jeremy Shinewald, president of admissions-consulting firm mbaMission, talks about applicants' fears and how he justifies his firm's fees.

  • The Case Against Commodities

    4 Oct 2011 | 4:16 pm
    Investing in commodities has gained steam in recent years, but there's some danger in the trend. Dylan Grice, global strategist for Société Generale, explains to WSJ's Liam Pleven why investing in commodities is a bet against human innovation and why gold is an exception.

  • Financial Advisers Eye Social Media for Clients

    16 Sep 2011 | 2:50 pm
    Financial advisers are starting to embrace social media to develop closer relationships with clients and gain exposure to potential clients. But there is a dark side to this. Daisy Maxey has the full story on digits.
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  • Can Diversification Really Protect Your Portfolio?

    9 Jan 2012 | 11:54 am
    If diversification doesn't shield your portfolio, what will? WSJ's Karen Damato joins Paul Vigna on The Markets Hub with the answers. (Photo: Getty Images).

  • Is It True Smiling Improves Your Mood?

    23 Oct 2011 | 4:00 pm
    Can smiling really boost your mood? WSJ's Christina Tsuei takes a look at the science behind smiling, in this latest installment of "Is It True?"

  • An Expert on MBA Admissions

    5 Oct 2011 | 12:00 pm
    Jeremy Shinewald, president of admissions-consulting firm mbaMission, talks about applicants' fears and how he justifies his firm's fees.

  • The Case Against Commodities

    4 Oct 2011 | 4:16 pm
    Investing in commodities has gained steam in recent years, but there's some danger in the trend. Dylan Grice, global strategist for Société Generale, explains to WSJ's Liam Pleven why investing in commodities is a bet against human innovation and why gold is an exception.

  • Financial Advisers Eye Social Media for Clients

    16 Sep 2011 | 2:50 pm
    Financial advisers are starting to embrace social media to develop closer relationships with clients and gain exposure to potential clients. But there is a dark side to this. Daisy Maxey has the full story on digits.
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  • The Wall Street Journal on Small Business

    The Wall Street Journal
    24 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    How one small business in the entertainment industry went global; software ideas that can put time back in your day; what to make of the flood of credit offers you've been getting.

  • The Wall Street Journal on Small Business

    The Wall Street Journal
    17 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    How customers can help the small businesses they like; the latest internet opportunity surfacing for entrepreneurs; and how self-employed business owners can get a mortgage.

  • The Wall Street Journal on Small Business

    The Wall Street Journal
    10 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    Three business mistakes to AVOID in 2012; how small businesses are getting ready to grow in the New Year; and how an online retailer is trying to change the behavior of women shoppers.

  • The Wall Street Journal on Small Business

    The Wall Street Journal
    3 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    What business owners are saying about 2012; using a pawn shop to get cash for your business; and what the most popular franchises will be this year.

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