2010

Global temperatures in 2010 tied 2005 for the warmest on record and are likely to increase further as developing countries expand their economies and produce more greenhouse gases, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said in a report Wednesday.

Forecasting which technologies will succeed is always hazardous, but it proved especially difficult in 2010, a year full of surprises -- and also several disappointments. Facebook blew away even the most optimistic expectations for the year. Google Buzz? Not so much.

World demand for oil will increase in the final months of 2010, but will be lower than expected in 2011, The International Energy Agency said. The IEA cut its forecast for 2011 demand to 1.21 million barrels per day, from 1.27 million bpd, Reuters reported. The agency also increased its estimate...

Things were looking bleak for Laura Heller. Laid off from her job of 10 years as a senior editor for a retail trade magazine, she was trying to get her freelance business started, but it was slow going. Then she got a call from her neighborhood Trader Joe's Supermarket. "You've won a $25 bag of...

Perking for coffee giant Starbucks (SBUX) are its fiscal first quarter 2010 earnings, due to be reported Wednesday after the bell. All eyes are on the company's same-store sales, whose story over the past 12 months has been along the lines of "hey, we're not declining nearly as much as last year at...

Great reads for investors from the Internet, including who might succeed Warren Buffett and stocks to buy in the remaining days of 2009.

This is the time of the year for stock market predictions, so I thought I would throw my hat in the ring. My first prediction is there will be no end of "financial experts" who will shamelessly set forth their views on what will happen to the stock markets in 2010. Let's take a look at some of...

The universal health care debate has dominated President Barack Obama's legislative agenda so far, and with good reason: Cost-containing health care reform is a prerequisite for balancing the federal budget. But assuming he gets a signed health care reform bill in December, what should Obama's top...

Bears who warn the U.S. stock market has gone too far too fast -- the broad Standard & Poor's 500 index is up 18 percent year to date -- may not get much vindication anytime soon. Investors should see stocks continue to rally as long as corporate profits keep recovering, says market expert...

Roughly 300 days in to his presidency, President Barack Obama, who campaigned that he would be the nation's first "post-partisan" president of the modern era, has lately exhibited decidedly partisan economic habits. Case in point: Obama's current proposal to send a second $250 check to every...