08:53 PST NEW YORK, – Stocks are mixed on Wall Street as Greece inches closer to a deal to resolve its debt crisis. The Dow Jones industrial average gave up an early gain and is down 23 points to 12,855 shortly before noon. The Standard & Poor’s 500 edged up 5 points to 1,355. The [...]

The wait for an expected deal between Greece and its creditors rattled financial markets around the world Monday. Yields for ultra-safe U.S. government debt hit their lowest this year, the euro dropped against the dollar, and European stocks took a fall. But U.S. stocks dropped only slightly. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 6.74 points [...]

AllRecipes.com has been on the auction block for several months, and now it finally has a buyer. Meredith Corp., the magazine publisher behind titles such as Eating Well, Parents and Family Circle, is buying the No. 1 online food site from Reader’s Digest Association for $175 million. “The acquisition of Allrecipes.com, the market leader in [...]

A recent Yahoo survey about the American consumers evolving view of housing provides interesting and strong evidence of a definite market trend. According to the Yahoo survey, energy efficiency is a top hallmark of the “dream home” — more consumers cited energy efficiency as a desirable attribute than any other feature. (The Yahoo survey can [...]

A total of 1,941,253 new registrations were recorded last year, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said. This compared with a figure of 2,030,846 for 2010 when sales were boosted by the Government’s car scrappage scheme. New car sales in December 2011 totalled 119,188 – a 3.7% drop on the December 2010 figure. [...]