Retail stocks followed the broader market higher Thursday, while Office Depot shares climbed after reporting quarterly results.

Weak demand from consumers and small businesses drags retailer Office Depot deeper into the red.

Among the shares expected to see active trade in Thursday’s session are those of Exxon, Procter & Gamble and Colgate-Palmolive.

This summer has been especially hard on WB Mason which paid $545 000 in June to settle claims by the Massachusetts Attorney General that the paper company used accounting processes that removed credits from some of its customer accounts. The firm changed its systems and said it "vigorously denied any wrongdoing and remains confident today that it handled all customer accounts properly."In 2006 of course Dunder's scrappy Scranton office had an accounting scare of its own. Angela Martin the head of accounting and the most unlikely office seductress in all of corporate America had trouble balancing the books and ...

Good news for coffee addicts across the nation: You now have a more portable convenient and cheaper way to mainline caffeine every morning.For 20 years Starbucks (SBUX) has been looking for a way to deliver its dark cups of coffee in an instant form. Today the Seattle-based company delivered: It began rolling out its new Via instant coffee across the US and Canada.The C-suite crew at Starbucks hopes to tap into the $21 billion instant-coffee market with a product that makes coffee on-the-go simple and cheap: One packet of the instant brew produces a cup of Joe for less ...

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