Companies facing soaring commodity prices must decide whether to pass these increases on to their consumers.
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Office Depot has agreed to pay $1 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges that it improperly disclosed key financial information to only a few analysts and shareholders. The CEO and former CFO also will pay…
American Express Co.’s third-quarter profit surged 71% as the No. 3 U.S. processor of credit-card sales benefited from a rebound in consumer and business spending as well as demand for the company’s travel services.
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Amazon’s third-quarter profits rose 16% thanks to surge in sales of electronic products such as its Kindle e-reader, the world’s largest online retailer reported after the bell Thursday.
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How can you tell if a CEO is lying? Stanford researchers have sifted through thousands of corporate conference-call transcripts to come up with some telltale signs that chief executives may be exaggerating their companies’ pros…