Market Insights

Are banks and credit card companies charging too much for debit transactions? Here's what we heard:

More than 75% of home entertainers prefer the more laidback approach and spacious feeling they get from entertaining in the great outdoors, according to Outdoor Entertaining Trends 2010: Consumers Bring the Indoors Out, a report from Port Washington, N.Y.-based NPD Group.

The U.S. Census Bureau reported yesterday that advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for April were $389.4 billion on a seasonally adjusted basis. That's an increase of 0.5% from the previous month, and up 7.6% compared with April 2010. 

Total sales for the February-through-April  period were up 8.1% from the same period a year ago.

Most readers see no concerns with glyphosate on the shelves

If you're struggling with this retail best practice, you're not alone.

Most readers took a middle-of-the-road approach toward work-life balance.

The bulls were running on Monday as oil prices rose. 

A mid record-low residential construction statistics and massive federal stimulus plans (See article , page...