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You'll spend more money on cars than just about anything except a house. Let these 31 tips steer you in the right direction.

My guru models told me to buy American Eagle Outfitters, Abercrombie & Fitch, Best Buy and Men's Wearhouse. Here's what made them so attractive.

While the market wanders about, keep your eyes on the things that really matter in a company: profit and dividends. Based on those, great names like GE and Coke look like bargains.

Soon to debut, the much-faster version of the phone positions the company to make big inroads into global and corporate markets, where it has traditionally fared poorly.

A big rally gets bigger when oil jumps nearly to $128, pushing energy shares higher. Wal-Mart and Costco report good same-store sales. Verizon's deal to buy Alltel wins cheers. Cutting jobs and jets, Continental says rising fuel costs have put the industry in a 'crisis.'

Preference programs and free trade agreements can provide strategic advantage.

Understand the 3 main ways to buy so you make the best deal.

Preference programs and free trade agreements can provide strategic advantage.

The world may indeed be flat, and we all might be competing in a global village. But that doesn't mean we here in the small-biz world can make a cheap, reliable international phone call.

The discount retailer, which clobbered toy stores and consumer-electronics chains after encroaching on their turf, is offering free classified ads online.

The collective wisdom of an online community and a simple stock screen are employed to find stocks with fundamentally good reasons to keep going up.

If you've ever put on just-washed workout clothes only to find they still smell like the gym, you're not alone. That's what MBA students at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler School of Business found while conducting research for their sportswear startup, Nolia Athletic Apparel. The students surveyed runners, many of whom said their athletic clothing stayed stinky and also chafed.