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Investors are likely to continue using cheap dollars to buy higher-risk assets in the early part of 2010, but with a potentially steep price to pay down the road.

The life span of the couch potato's magic wand may be drawing to a close, with the dawn of 3D gesture-recognition devices. e the couch potato's magic wand may be drawing to a close, with the dawn of 3D gesture-recognition devices.

The following is an excerpt covering the Federal Open Market Committee's discussion of monetary policy taken from the minutes of the FOMC's meeting of Dec. 15-16, which were released on Wednesday.

Governors in California, Kentucky and New York kick off the season of addresses to state lawmakers as at least 36 states struggle to close budget shortfalls and also begin confronting the next fiscal year’s woes. The New York Times reports.

This is a live blog from Jim Goldman who is attending a news conference at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California where it is expected the company will officially unveil its smartphone, The Nexus One.

Wall Street's first test of the new year and decade could well be whether investors are following each other over a cliff.

The recent improvement in several labor barometers adds ammunition to the optimists' argument about an imminent and long-awaited breakthrough in the labor market. .