Move Over, Apple: 16 More U.S. Companies Stashing Billions Overseas
Apple is under fire for keeping billions in profits overseas, where it doesn't have to pay U.S. taxes, but Apple is hardly the only big company dodging the IRS this way.
Johnson and Johnson
Johnson & Johnson Wins Big Court Battle
J.C. Penney today opens its first store-within-the-store boutiques. They'll offer home goods from designers such as Michael Graves, Jonathan Adler and Sir Terence Conran.
Does Johnson & Johnson Need a Lot More than Just a Band-Aid?
Everyone knows Johnson & Johnson, but not everyone knows how big this pharmaceutical and medical device giant really is. And they also may not realize how much it's recent series of drug recalls and management missteps have pummeled the blue chip stock.
FDA Revisits Safety of Newer Birth Control Drugs
Birth control drugs that were heavily promoted as having fewer side effects are now under scrutiny from the FDA in the wake of new research suggesting that they are more likely to cause blood clots than older drugs.
How to Get Rich in a Boring Market
Everybody knows how to make money in a bull market, and it isn't hard to see ways to profit from a bear market, but what do you do when the market isn't moving at all? Here are some strategies for making money in the doldrums.
How to Take Advantage of the M&A Boom
Mergers and acquisitions are becoming ever more popular, with activity up 24% in the first two months of this year -- after already growing 23% in 2010. Here's how your portfolio can benefit from this trend.
Top-Selling Drugs About to Lose Patent Protection
The pharmaceutical industry is ready to fall off a cliff -- a "patent cliff." Over the next few years, some of the world's most popular and lucrative medicines will go off patent, and generic competition will siphon an estimated quarter of a trillion dollars from drugmakers' bottom lines.
Johnson & Johnson Recalls Sudafed Because of a Typo
"Do not not divide, crush, chew, or dissolve the tablet," reads the label on packages of Johnson & Johnson's Sudafed allergy and cold medicine. The company is recalling 667,632 packages for the typographical error.
What a Wild Year It Was
for Health Care
Led by the health insurance reform law, a flurry of drug and food recalls, key medical breakthroughs and plenty of layoffs and lawsuits, 2010 proved to be an exciting -- if not always positive -- year. Here's our rundown of the biggest health care stories.