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Oracle, Discover and Tiffany are all expected to report year-over-year growth for their most recent quarters this week. Meanwhile, many will be looking for an updated snapshot of the housing market, with three sets of real-estate data coming out.

Consumers will start to see prices rising at the stores -- and soon, as the costs of commodities like cotton, sugar, and coffee are surging to record highs.

Companies facing soaring commodity prices must decide whether to pass these increases on to their consumers.

Connecticut's publicity-loving Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has struck again. This time, the nation's food companies are in his sights. According to the New York Times, Blumenthal is investigating the Smart Choices labeling campaign that "promotes products like Froot Loops and mayonnaise as...

General Mills (GIS) reported that its fourth-quarter net sales increased by 5 percent, leading to a net income increase of almost 100 percent. In the last year, net income per share has jumped from 53 cents to $1.07, and adjusted earnings have gone from 73 cents per share to 86 cents per share. In...

International Business Machines (IBM) is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems Inc. (JAVA) according to Wall Street Journal sources. The reported deal is for $6.5 billion, a premium of about 100 percent over Sun's closing price Tuesday of $4.97 a share. The deal could bolster Big Blue's computer server...