Manhattan's Million-Dollar Parking Spot
Comstock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- It used to be that $1 million could buy you a healthy chunk of real estate–a mansion, maybe, or a few acres of land. But in Manhattan’s tony Greenwich
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Gas Prices Drop to National Average of $3.71 Per Gallon
KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Gas prices are down again this week to about $3.71 for a gallon of regular unleaded, four cents less than last week’s national average, the U.S. Departmen
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Stocks Bounce Back from Losing Streak
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- The market regained some lost ground Monday. Stocks rose following a report that shows economists are more optimistic about housing and employment.
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Chinese Company Buys AMC Theatres
Mario Tama/Getty Images(KANSAS CITY, Mo.) -- Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group has agreed to purchase American movie theater operator AMC Entertainment Holdings for $2.6 billion – a dea
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CableWiFi: Cable Firms to Join on 50,000 Hotspots
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Being a Bright House, Optimum, Xfinity, Cox Communications, and Time Warner Cable subscriber is about to get a bit better. Or at least it will if you’re the
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Facebook Shares Plunge Below IPO Price
Peter Foley/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Shares of Facebook plunged below its IPO price and previous close, opening down 11 percent to $33.83 on Monday morning.
Facebook stock
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Yahoo Selling Half of Its Stake in Alibaba for $7.1 Billion
Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- In a decision that may satisfy its shareholders, Yahoo has reached an agreement with Alibaba to sell half of its stake in the Chinese e-commerce
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Nasdaq CEO 'Embarassed' by Glitches During Facebook's IPO
EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/GettyImages(NEW YORK) -- The chief executive of the Nasdaq stock market admits he was “embarrassed” by what happened on Friday when trading glitches led to doubts abou
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Breaking New Ground: Oil Boom Draws More Women to Industry
Comstock/Thinkstock(LIBERAL, Kan.) -- Even before she suits up in her overalls and laces up in steel toe boots to head out to a drilling rig, Linda Trujillo is breaking new ground as one of the pion
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Gingrich Owed $4.78M When He Suspended Campaign, Report Finds
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- By the time he announced his plans to suspend his campaign in late April, Newt Gingrich owed $4.78 million, according to his FEC filing for April, releas
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Mark Zuckerberg Marries Priscilla Chan
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(PALO ALTO, Calif.) -- Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg married Priscilla Chan on Saturday, two days after the social networking site had the biggest tech IPO
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County Orders Demolition Of Homes Destroyed By Tornado
WICHITA, Kan. - Sedgwick County officials are continuing efforts to clean up tornado-ravaged Oaklawn a month later.
Sedgwick County public works labeled each of the damaged homes as safe or unsafe and livable or not livable. Now the owners have 30 days to demolish those that are unsafe. Construction crews are still waiting on
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Shareholders Cut CEO Pay in Backlash
Adam Gault/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Amidst a climate of populist outrage and corporate missteps, shareholders are voting en mass to cut executive pay thanks to a new government rule called "say on pay." T
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