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The CEOs of 20 companies are visiting the White House Wednesday, and those executives will try to get something in return for the political cover they're giving President Obama. That could mean higher earnings for their shareholders down the road -- so which ones should you have in your 2011 portfolio?

Let's say you love going to the beach, but it's been galling you lately to see those unsightly plastic shopping bags blowing around in the wind. A scuba diver friend tells you they get twined around coral reefs and eaten by endangered sea turtles mistaking them for jellyfish. Would it help if you...

Since the recession began, more than 8 million Americans have lost their jobs. But perhaps even more surprising is the small number of companies that are responsible for laying off such a large percentage of today's unemployed workers.

Google is now investigating whether some of its own employees helped carry out the recent cyber-attack in China, which exposed Gmail accounts of U.S. companies and Chinese dissidents. News reports also say foreign reporters based in China were targeted by the hackers, too.

After leading an investment team to buy The Philadelphia Inquirer in 2006, Brian P. Tierney invited the widow of its onetime owner, Walter Annenberg, to visit him in her husband's old office. While visiting, Lenore Annenberg noted that Tierney had situated his desk differently from her...

This morning, the Dow Chemical Company (DOW) announced that its board approved a plan yesterday to shut down a number of manufacturing assets, affecting 100 employees who would be offered other positions. Dow also said it will take a charge related to 2,500 previously announced job cuts. This...

Over the last year-and-a-half, as the economy has worsened, the M&A business has become a game of "on again, off again." One of the most recent examples of a company that wanted make a huge purchase and then got cold feet is Dow Chemical (DOW), which announced it would buy specialty chemical...

Dow Chemical (DOW) backed away from its deal to buy specialty chemical company Rohm & Haas (ROH). Papers filed in a suit by Rohm to try to get Dow to close the deal indicate that Dow does not have much of a leg to stand on if it wants to walk away. Most analysts suspect that when Dow lost the...