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For most of the past decade, buying Oreos or Trident gum for your kids meant sending money to the Marlboro Man. Those brands have gone their separate ways, but there are still many odd matches in the wild world of conglomerates, where companies own siblings that don't really look like one another.

President Barack Obama's recently extended homebuyers' tax credit may help revive the flagging fortunes of the manufactured home industry -- and not a moment too soon. According to the Manufactured Housing Institute, about 55,000 prefabricated homes will be sold in the U.S. in 2009, down from...

Even Warren Buffett can't escape the ravages of the economy. Last year, his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK-A) conglomerate posted its worst-ever financial results. He rocked the financial markets yesterday with comments that the economy this year would be a "shambles." So it should come as no...