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Six out of ten people check e-mail during the holidays, and many find that there are messages from their workplaces. A new poll by Harris Interactive and Xobni shows that 59% of employed Americans check their work email during family holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas.

More stores are open on Thanksgiving, traditionally a day when shops have been closed, to get a jump on Black Friday, the most important shopping day of the year. The bargains have drawn some shoppers -- and also some grumbling -- but traffic is nowhere near as busy as retailers expect it to be this weekend.

A building boom -- and the constrained supply of materials due to mandated energy cuts -- sent Chinese cement, metal and building-equipment stocks up Thursday. Meanwhile, Hong Kong and Japanese exporters benefited from improving consumer sentiment and falling unemployment in the U.S.

Last year, a shortage of pumpkin threatened the traditional Thanksgiving pies made from the bright orange squash. The shortage appears to be over, but the conditions that caused the shortage remain unchanged. Here's why pie fans should worry.

"Is it OK to thaw my turkey in the bathtub while bathing my kids?" Butterball's famous team of "college-educated, professionally-trained" home economists and nutritionists got this question over their annua Thanksgivingl turkey talk-line one year. This may be the only hotline where you can ask...

Cyber Monday is traditionally the Monday after Thanksgiving weekend, named thus because it was the day people headed back to work and presumably had access to computers. But times have changed, and lot more have near constant access to the Internet than when Cyber Monday began, which got us...

According to the American Farm Bureau Federation, a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with your extended family only costs $43.47, which only seems possible if you outsource your meal to India. What's more, that figure doesn't include hidden costs like alcohol. Or Valium. Or therapy.

For most college students, mid-November means cramming for finals and cranking out semester-end essays. But for those money-smart students who leave the library long enough to hit the mall, Black Friday sales afford the opportunity to buy stuff you'd get anyway, only much, much cheaper. Even...

Although retail prices for turkey have held steady, wholesale prices are hovering at around $1.09 per pound, a record high. Several factors are in play, but perhaps the biggest one comes from Washington, in the form of Federal Reserve monetary policy.

If you're thinking about making a New Year's Resolution of any kind -- maybe to lose weight, pay off debt or stop a bad habit like smoking -- waiting until January 1 to get started is probably the single worst thing you can do. Instead, commit to implementing your resolution beginning on...