NEW YORK -- Stocks have ended mostly higher as rising commodity prices lifted energy, industrial and materials companies.
Investors are drawing some comfort Tuesday from billionaire investor Warren Buffett's decision to pay $100 a share for Burlington Northern Santa Fe in a deal valuing the railroad at $34 billion.
Meanwhile, tool maker Stanley Works has agreed to acquire Black & Decker Corp. for $3.46 billion in stock.
The Dow Jones industrial average is down 18 at 9,772. The Standard & Poor's 500 index is up 3 at 1,045. The Nasdaq composite index is up 8 at 2,057.
Three stocks rose for every two that fell on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume totaled 1.4 billion compared with 1.1 billion Monday.
In a previous blog, “A Runners Wife” I spoke about my husband training for the NYC marathon. All I have to say is that the months of training all came together of an amazing race. Race day is a grueling day for runners, and the family. But a miracle happened...
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder testified before the senate judiciary committee and basically shrugged when asked if any other enemy combatant captured overseas had ever been brought to civilian criminal court to face justice. Talk about an incompetent boob, not to mention a disgrace.
Here is a list of wines all from Spain, and menus from restaurants in Brooklyn where a crew of us did a food / wine crawl through Carrol Gardens and Williamsburg recently
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