Jared Lee Loughner, the disturbed young man charged in this weekend’s massacre in Tuscon, highlights the physical dangers that individuals with untreated mental illness pose to society. But the financial costs of mental illnes…
Leading the new pack of bulls who forecast a big leap in the U.S. economy and the stock market are the economists and analysts at Goldman Sachs. And they’ve a compiled a large batch of their “best-idea” stocks that they’re conv…
BP (BP), ConocoPhillips (COP) and Exxon Mobil (XOM) have cut their oil production from Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay field by 95% after a leak was discovered in the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. No one is certain how long the leak will take to fix. It appears to be in…
Apple (AAPL) shares closed Thursday at $333.73, very near an all-time high. Some analysts have price targets on the stock above $450. If Apple shares reached that level, the tech giant would likely pass Exxon Mobil (XOM) as the most valuable U.S.-liste…
One would think that BP’s massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill this year would have given pause to the global oil industry, but that doesn’t appear to be the case. Companies in the sector are planning to spend a record $490 billion…