Leon Lazaroff

Coffee traditionalists may flinch at Starbucks Corp.'s winter offering, the Chai Eggnog Latte. But they're still flocking to buy their cups of Joe: The seemingly ubiquitous coffee shop continues to...

In a business as complicated as energy, it still comes down to the simple relationship between supply and demand. This is true right now for natural gas: Producer inventories badly...

Is the REIT run over? Major economic indicators make clear that after five years of escalating share prices, the outlook for most real estate investment trusts has become a lot...

There is little doubt that the increasingly opulent hedge fund community--if there is one--is proud of William Ackman's charge on McDonald's Corp. That an aggressive hedge fund manager like Ackman,...

Might WiMax be the next big thing? Kevin Landis, chief investment officer of Firsthand Capital Management Inc., said WiMax equipment-makers Airspan Networks Inc. and Alvarion Ltd. already should be big....

It may seem coarse to try to make money off the possibility that the current strain of avian influenza becomes transmissible between humans. But as anyone who buys pharmaceutical stocks...

If Wall Street's opinion of Coach Inc., the hip handbag retailer, is any indication, Americans haven't lost their will to shop. Or at least Coach's largely upper-income consumers--average household income...

NASCAR may have its roots in the South, but Michael Printup wants to help expand its reach by building an 80,000-seat racetrack in New York City. As director of corporate...

Stock-pickers large and small routinely spend hours poring over numbers. But sometimes it only takes a few words from a local politician to move a stock price. Such was the...

Every few years, SBC Communications Inc. gets bigger. Once the tiniest of the Baby Bells, the San Antonio-based telecommunications firm has already gobbled up two of its former brethren and...