Why Gold Has Been Knocked Off Its Highs

Friday’s action notwithstanding, in which gold prices rose as the stock market sold off, safe-haven assets are suffering at the expensive of equities and other riskier assets. That’s what happens when the global economy appears…

Face-Off on Stocks: McDonald’s, Yum, Wendy’s/Arby’s [Video]


Fast-food restaurants appear to have put the worst of the downturn behind them, but new industrywide challenges have emerged for 2011. That got us wondering if there’s fast money to be made in fast-food stocks — or if shares are too hard to swallow at current levels. [Video]

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Stocks Post Gains, but Dow Fails to Hold 12,000

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