U.S. stock-market futures edge lower as data show a sharp drop in U.S. housing starts in October and a 0.3% rise in consumer prices.

Among the shares expected to see active trade in Wednesday's session are those of Autodesk, BJ’s, Elbit Systems, Hershey, Salesforce, Sara Lee, Target and VimpelCom.

Pay a man not to work, and that's what he'll do. Reward bankers for taking huge gambles with the balance sheet, and so they will.

After a six-session win streak for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, U.S. stocks open modestly lower after a disappointing holiday outlook from Wal-Mart and pressure on the energy and utilities sectors.

Hate Starbucks (SBUX)? Have you asked yourself why?Maybe it’s because you find the coffee stores bland and generic. Perhaps you don’t like that they seem to be everywhere you look.Or it could be that you simply prefer your local independent mom-and-pop coffee shop and show your “loyalty” by “hating” Starbucks.But guess what? Your local independent mom-and-pop coffee shops don’t hate Starbucks at all. In fact most of them love it when Starbucks opens a location nearby.Balderdash? Hardly.Before two schoolteachers and a writer cobbled together $8 000 in 1971 and opened the first Starbucks adjacent to a farmer’s market in ...

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