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The networking company's shares fall 7% after it says it expects slowing growth in Europe and the United States. Inflation worries and economic uncertainty gut a morning rally, with the Dow losing 65 points. Disney's earnings push its shares up 4.8%.

Want to close more sales without doing more work? Give customers more ways to pay with alternative billing methods.

The Republican front-runner has a long history of sparring with industry and taking on companies he thinks are getting sweetheart deals or hurting consumers.

If you trust the polls, John McCain will emerge as the likely Republican Party nominee at the end of Super Tuesday, today's multi-state primary. But the Arizona senator is hardly the most authoritative Republican candidate when it comes to the increasingly troubled U.S. economy, which business owners name as one of their top concerns in most polls.

The blue-chip index's point loss is its worst since August as reports of a weakening economy batter stocks and prompt calls for another interest-rate cut from the Fed. Wall Street likes Walt Disney earnings. Mining giant BHP Billiton bids $147 billion for Rio Tinto.

I'm making six short sells and going long on Western Digital, CTC Media and TransDigm Group.

How are Americans likely to spend their tax rebates? Expect sellers of food and clothing, such as Wal-Mart, Kohl's and Target, to be the biggest beneficiaries.

The ice-cream maker wants customers to know its products are free of a synthetic hormone. But the hormone's marketer and some dairy farmers resent the implication that the hormone is unsafe.

We rose from the primordial ooze primed to say 'charge it.' But we can learn to save for tomorrow despite being hard-wired to spend today. Really.