Business - Investing

One glance at RidgeWorth Aggressive Growth Stock Fund's top holdings tells you that the fund's managers aren't messing around with its main concern: earnings. Full Story »

Wouldn't it be great if you bought a stock as it broke out and it went up day after day after day? Unfortunately, things never work out that way. Full Story »

Where there's a need, there's a niche. With food allergies on the rise, entrepreneurs are taking their special recipes from kitchens to supermarket shelves. How persistence helps them whip up success: Full Story »

PITTSBURGH - The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has unanimously approved the sale of Dominion Peoples, Pittsburgh's largest natural gas utility, to a San Francisco-based investors group subsidiary. Full Story »

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - A foreign currencies trader who cheated investors in more than 20 states to support a lavish lifestyle and buy presents for a girlfriend has been sentenced to 24 years in prison. Full Story »

AMITE, La. - A Louisiana businessman was arrested Thursday on charges he engaged in a Ponzi scheme that cost at least 200 investors more than $11 million, money he allegedly used to finance a lavish lifestyle. Full Story »

NEW YORK - Intel Corp. is teaming with a French university and government agencies to open a research center in Paris aimed at building faster supercomputers. Full Story »

NEW YORK - Moody's Investors Service issued a negative opinion on the pharmaceutical industry Thursday, saying drugmaker credit ratings will be under pressure until early 2012 because they won't be able to fully replace revenue from best-sellers that go off-patent. Full Story »

BOSTON - First Marblehead Corp., which packages students loans for sale to investors, said on Thursday that a bank subsidiary that it's considering selling has completed the sale of its remaining portfolio of private education loans. Full Story »

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bond-fund manager Bill Gross on Thursday said that investors should disabuse themselves of the notion that interest rates are going to be lifted any time soon, even though assets such as gold have streaked to new records. Full Story »

Unexpectedly weak homebuilding data out Wednesday raised a red flag that a key driver of prior economic recoveries may not have much horsepower in this one. Full Story »

There is no substitute for getting into a stock at the right time. Full Story »

RALEIGH, N.C. - Jewels, art, cars and more than 150 bottles of fine wine will be auctioned off in North Carolina's capital city to help recoup nearly $70 million in losses for investors duped in an alleged Ponzi scheme. Full Story »

NEW YORK - Moody's Investors Service on Wednesday upgraded Jones Apparel Group Inc. by one notch on its liquidity rating, which remained in speculative grade territory. Full Story »

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's biggest bank Mitsubishi UFJ Financial announced plans Wednesday to raise billion of dollars from investors, joining a scramble by firms to boost finances ravaged the global financial crisis. Full Story »

Let's say you've mastered the main points of IBD's CAN SLIM investing strategy, including looking for earnings growth, industry leaders and institutional sponsorship. Full Story »

The Economy: We knew something was funny when the White House claimed that 640,000 to 1 million jobs had been created from this year's stimulus. What we didn't know was that it would turn into a massive fraud. Full Story »

Mosaid Technologies makes its living buying and selling ideas. Full Story »