For the loneliest number one sure has a lot of company. A one point gain took the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to within one percent of its replacement level while one dollar will suffice as a salary for Citigroup’s (C) CEO. Investors sold sex and bought Saks (SKS) Playboy (PLA) plunging 14.23% to put Hef in a huff even as the upscale retailer rose 4.06% after swinging to an unexpected profit. While Wall Street ended at session highs on a day of otherwise modest market gains Jacob’s Engineering (JEC) (-14.51%) will require Jacob’s Ladder to climb back to where it was ...

Cedar Fair announced it is suspending its once generous distribution beginning next year.

Mass-produced beer is a slow-growth industry and major brewers have merged in an effort to cut costs and grab market share. But consolidation may be little more than a short-term fix. The best known deal: InBev snapped up Anheuser-Busch once an American icon in 2008 for about $52 billion to create Anheuser-Busch InBev (BUD) the world’s largest brewer with operations in about 30 countries around the world.InBev’s third-quarter profit increased 11.9% to $1.55 billion by reducing expenses including jobs and advertising expenses. But revenue dropped 10% to $9.76 billion as beer volume fell 3.1%.Bloomberg reports that InBev may attempt ...

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Thursday’s session are Alliant Techsystems, Anheuser-Busch Inbev, Applied Materials, Computer Sciences, Greenbrier, Kohl’s, Nash Finch, 3Com, Urban Outfitters, and Wal-Mart.

Anheuser-Busch InBev's third-quarter profit more than doubles as cost cutting more than offsets declining sales volumes.