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Jewelry Making and Cake Decorating. Quilting, Gardening and Spinning and Weaving. Knitting and Sewing some beautiful strings. These are a few of my favorite things.

Shares have dropped 20 percent since their September peak. Some investors may be selling in anticipation of higher capital gains taxes.

Mellow Mushroom, which like many businesses follows consumers on Twitter, had decided as a promotional stunt to follow some of those consumers in person — with a film crew.

Are the austerity measures imposed on struggling eurozone countries contributing to a deepening recession in the region?

From Mother Nature Network's Russell McClendon: Burning fossil fuels could raise Earth's temperature by 10.8 degrees Fahrenheit (6 degrees Celsius) within 88 years, according to...

In trading on Thursday, shares of Troy Resources Ltd (Toronto: TRY) crossed above their 200 day moving average of $4.57, changing hands as high as $4.79 per share. Troy Resources Ltd shares are currently trading up about...

By voting in Proposition 30 on Election Day, California overtook the Big Apple as the state that takes the biggest bite out of a $1 million salary.

Here's a post-election update to my story, Billions In State Tax Hikes, And Breaks, On Nov. 6 Ballot.

In trading on Thursday, shares of Lufkin Industries, Inc. (NASD: LUFK) entered into oversold territory, changing hands as low as $49.1233 per share. We define oversold territory using the Relative Strength Index, or RSI,...

Tim Geithner seems to be on his way out as U.S. Treasury Secretary. While he played an instrumental role in keeping the global financial system afloat, he unfortunately protected the banks that had the biggest role in th...

In trading on Thursday, shares of Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL) entered into oversold territory, changing hands as low as $30.60 per share. We define oversold territory using the Relative Strength Index, or RSI, which ...

Is Apple in for a rough 2013? Maybe. The Cupertino-based giant has long been loved by its cult-like following of iPhone fanboys and diehard Mac...

In trading on Thursday, shares of Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) entered into oversold territory, changing hands as low as $17.22 per share. We define oversold territory using the Relative Strength Index, or RSI, wh...

Susan Solovic with things to consider before buying in.

In trading on Thursday, shares of United Corporation (Toronto: UNC) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $48.37, changing hands as low as $48.06 per share. United Corporation shares are currently trading down ab...

The long and bruising 2012 presidential election is now behind us, but the challenges remain. Luckily, the business community has no shortage of people willing to offer their diagnoses for what ails the country. Read ahe...

In trading on Thursday, shares of ARC Resources Ltd (Toronto: ARX) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $22.74, changing hands as low as $22.32 per share. ARC Resources Ltd shares are currently trading down abou...

A judge in Australia found that Standard & Poor’s was liable for issuing the top rating of AAA for a product she described as a “grotesquely complicated” piece of financial engineering.

* Wall Street shares fall further after Wednesday slump * Euro hits two-month low after ECB holds rates steady * U.S., German government debt prices,...

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, in trading on Thursday, shares of Quad/Graphics, Inc. (NYSE: QUAD) were yielding above the 6% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $1.00), wi...

In trading on Thursday, shares of Rogers Sugar, Inc. (Toronto: RSI) were yielding above the 6% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $0.36), with the stock changing hands as low as $5.81 on the day. Dividen...

Investors freaked out after McDonald’s posted its first monthly sales decline in more than nine years on Thursday, selling amid heavy volume and sending the stock down 2%.  The reaction was exaggerated, though....