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Jack Narz, the host on "Dotto" when it became one of the first television programs ensnared in the quiz-show scandals of the 1950s and who went on to emcee "Concentration" and other game shows, died Wednesday. He was 85. Narz, brother of veteran game...

Wall Street sizes up the candidates Are you better at picking winners of elections than winners on Wall Street? If so, you may be able to profit from your political prognostications. Investment pros say certain stocks and sectors do better depending...

Organic drink maker Honest Tea has built its business on a reputation as an eco-friendly company with a do-good mission. Now it is hoping to expand its cause with an unlikely partner: Coca-Cola. Honest Tea says that teaming up with Coca-Cola, which...

Monday: -- Earnings: American Financial Group Inc.; CB Richard Ellis Group Inc.; CNA Financial Corp.; Hertz Global Holdings Inc.; Humana Inc.; Kellogg Co.; Loews Corp.; Pitney Bowes Inc.; Principal Financial Group Inc.; RadioShack Corp. Tuesday: --...

For investors, the second half of the year won't exactly be coasting. Subprime mortgage concerns, speculation about interest rates and the early maneuverings of presidential campaigns will influence stock market psychology. There is optimism about the...

The seven-mile commute from the Bronx to midtown might be considered easy by some standards, but everything changes when the commuter in question can't use his legs. "Ten percent of your life is what happens to you, 90 percent is how you react to it,"...

If you invest in the stocks of consumer-related companies that you personally admire, you can't go wrong. Take Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc., for example. Well, maybe not Krispy Kreme, whose stock tanked 66 percent in 2004 and 54 percent in 2005. It has...

In the mid-1990s, when Susan Kropf was traveling in the Chinese countryside on a business trip with Avon Products, she met a woman who spoke little English. Avon was relatively new to China at the time, but Kropf went ahead and introduced herself as a...

You can call Barry Diller the $1-billion CEO. The head of InterActiveCorp has been handsomely rewarded by his board of directors over the years for running the e-commerce company -- so much so that he could walk away with more than $1 billion just by...

The stock market wasn't the only thing in the money last year ... three high-powered Wall Street women also raked in the bucks. Zoe Cruz, head of Morgan Stanley's fixed income division, pulled in $12.7 million in 2003, making her the highest paid...

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First of four parts This series was reported by Delroy Alexander, Greg Burns, Robert Manor, Flynn McRoberts and E.A. Torriero. It was written by McRoberts. Trading his customary dark suit for a pair of jeans, Mike Gagel trudged over pallet after pallet...