America's 7 Most Profitable Products
Successful companies may become giants, with large catalogs of products, but they frequently rely heavily on just one brand for a major chunk of their sales and profits.
Successful companies may become giants, with large catalogs of products, but they frequently rely heavily on just one brand for a major chunk of their sales and profits.
An American Heart Association study is likely to dent shares of Monster Beverage. It found that energy drinks can increase blood pressure, which can disturb hearth rhythm.
From Pandora, which is trying to encourage more of its music streamers to pay, to Monster, which is trying to win back a good rep for its an energy drink, here's a rundown of this week's big winners and losers in the business world.
Plenty of market-moving news will break this week: One way or another, big changes loom due to Washington's budget fight; and Home Depot, Groupon, Best Buy, RadioShack and Monster will report earnings.
Many Wall Street pundits are surprisingly bullish about the U.S. economy for 2011, but high unemployment continues to ravage Main Street. Still, with corporate profits booming and the stock market rallying, some indicators say jobs may finally be poised for a comeback, too.
In another setback on employment, initial jobless claims jumped a larger than anticipated 20,000 to 457,000, the Labor Department announced Thursday. Economists had predicted initial jobless claims would total 443,000.









