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Economic growth in the U.S. will resume in 2010 with sales for manufacturing and services projected to increase 5.7% and 1.3%, respectively, the Institute for Supply Management said. Manufacturing capex is expected to fall 4%, but that's an improvement from a 7.8% drop in '09. Factories predict strength in exports and imports next year amid a weaker dollar on average vs. a basket of currencies. The services sector expects prices they pay for materials and services will increase 1.1% in '10. And both industries predict employment to decrease. Full Story »

War On Terror: The anti-war crowd says the small number of enemy fighters inside Afghanistan doesn't justify sending 30,000 fresh troops there. They fail to understand the larger problem. Full Story »

Deficits: The reaction of Congress and the president to the good news on TARP has been revealing. Here we face a decade of unprecedented red ink, yet they think they're still not spending enough. Full Story »

Microcap company Hi-Tech Pharmacal (NasdaqGS:HITK - News) is shaping its first base above 10. Full Story »

It's frustrating to miss a top-rated stock after it breaks out. If it moves 5% past the proper buy point, don't chase it. Full Story »

Old Mutual's decision to fold its Growth Fund into its Focused portfolio lays a choice in the lap of Growth's shareholders. Full Story »

Times may be hard, but customers at upscale casual-dining chain Cheesecake Factory are still eating cake -- and hundreds of other dishes, diet-defying or not. Full Story »

The amount of information received through the eyes and ears of Americans in 2008, outside of work, was equivalent to a stack of paperback novels seven feet high covering the continental U.S. and Alaska, says a report slated to be released on Wednesday. Full Story »

Is the worst over for MetroPCS and Leap Wireless? Maybe not, and if the answer is no, it could rekindle thoughts of a merger between two champions of low-cost, flat-rate unlimited calling plans. Full Story »

That's when his IBM bosses called him to New York to get his take on the successor to the firm's top-selling 7000 series of computers. Full Story »