Europe's debt woes got you down? Looking for a safe place to hide in this increasingly ugly market?
Lower Manhattan's controversial Park51 Islamic center is now in a court battle with utility Consolidated Edison, which says the center owes it $1.7 million in a dispute over back rent.
When New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg instructed five hospitals to evacuate their patients from Hurricane Irene's path, one replied it couldn't follow his order.
Patients return to evacuated hospitals in New York City following Hurricane Irene. CNN's Elizabeth Cohen reports.
Hurricane hunter Mark Sudduth says Northeast residents should expect the same destruction already left in Irene's wake.
Officials in the mid-Atlantic states and southern New England on Saturday sounded fresh warnings about Hurricane Irene and told residents they were nearly out of time to leave for safer ground.
A sudden downpour in Baltimore shut down Amtrak train service Monday morning and brought reports of flash floods that isolated emergency vehicles and caused at least one neighborhood evacuation.
HLN meteorologist Bob Van Dillen explains the science behind a deadly heat wave spreading across the eastern U.S.
With this summer's heat already blamed for at least 22 deaths, the recent heat wave continues to claim victims as it settles over portions of the East Coast this weekend.
Half-naked anchors cover "heat dome" while reporters cook steak and eggs in it. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports.
The blistering heat wave that has brought stifling conditions to much of the United States broke 55 record highs on Wednesday, the National Weather Service said Thursday. That's more than 1% of all temperature records in the country.
A group of top executives released a letter Friday lobbying New York state legislators to legalize same-sex marriage -- a decision they said is not only fair, but also makes good business sense.
Closing the much-criticized Indian Point nuclear power plant just north of New York City would add an additional 6% to monthly utility bills, according to area utility Consolidated Edison.
New York's Staten Island was broiling under a life-threatening heat wave and borough President James Molinaro was seriously concerned about the area's Little League baseball players. It was last July's Eastern heat wave and Consolidated Edison was responding to scattered power outages as electricity usage neared record highs.
Heat waves threaten the reliability of the U.S. power grid as CNN's Allan Chernoff reports.
A fast-moving storm ripped through New York City Thursday afternoon, with strong winds and torrential rain toppling trees and leaving more than 25,000 customers without power.
Some say that the United States is incurring too much debt, more than $1 trillion in the past fiscal year.
CNN's Jim Acosta looks at the heat wave hitting the East Coast of the U.S.
New York City police sounded an all-clear early Friday after a brief scare involving a suspicious car in lower Manhattan, a few weeks after a foiled bomb attempt in Times Square.
Authorities have linked seven deaths to the nor'easter affecting the Eastern Seaboard, and more than 300,000 customers remained without power Monday in the Northeast after rain and fierce winds.
Rain and heavy winds cause flooding and knock out power to hundreds of thousands.
The missing engine from a US Airways jet that ditched in the Hudson River was recovered Friday, more than a week after the crash landing.
New video shows US Airways flight 1549 crash landing in the Hudson River.
Recent turmoil in the stock market may be frightening, but the sell-off could turn out to be a blessing in disguise, especially if you're in or nearing retirement and are worried about generating income from your portfolio.
With the cleanup from a deadly steam pipe explosion expected to drag on for days, businesses in the "frozen zone" could lose hundreds of millions of dollars, a business leader said Friday
An explosion rocks New York, sending fear over a city that knows it is a target of terror
Easterners endure hot weather
"Our energy bills would go from $1,500 in the winter to $3,000 in the summer," said Peter Horglow, owner of Brooklyn Bridge Bagel Works based in Chico, Calif.
New York officials evacuated a number of buildings and shut down some trains after a mysterious gaslike odor was reported Monday.
Businesses across the country are facing a big question this week: Will the heat wave sweeping the nation help or hurt their sales figures?
What's bad for Consolidated Edison's customers apparently isn't bad for its shareholders.
Scattered power outages in New York inconvenienced tens of thousands of travelers Tuesday as Con Edison struggled to meet high demand for power in the face of sweltering temperatures.
Consolidated Edison ranks no. 199 on this year's list of the FORTUNE 500, with $11,732 million in revenues, up 19.8% from the previous year. The New York-based company was ranked no. 228 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $719 million, up 33.9% from a year earlier.
Many electric utilities are collecting money from customers to pay income taxes, and then never paying those taxes, according to a report published Wednesday.
WITH THE FCC'S DECISION IN MID-October to endorse the rollout of broadband service by utility companies, suddenly the tech world is buzzing that broadband over power lines (BPL) will be the next bi...
Consumers these days endure advertising on the floors of supermarkets, in the sanitary-cakes of urinals, even tattooed onto the heads of college kids.
The companies below are committed to a multicultural work force--from the mailroom to the boardroom. And they're doing what it takes to open opportunities for minorities at every level.
A few nights back, I got a "courtesy" call from AT&T, my long-distance provider. The rep wanted to know if the company could do anything else to help me.
The check is in the mail" could soon become an obsolete excuse for a late payment. More and more companies now let you pay by check over the phone or the Internet; all you need to do is provide you...
A few months ago Ted Giuliano, head of Neuberger & Berman's bond department, went out for a dinner with his wife, Hilary Woods Giuliano, who runs stock funds at Dreyfus. Hilary gallantly picked up ...
Attend a press conference for one of today's megamergers, and it's hard to resist being swept up in it all: the two imperial CEOs and their soaring strategic vision; the solemn assurances that this...
This is the time of year when the idea of "wind chill" starts to sound pretty good. And perhaps that means you'll soon find yourself standing in a housewares superstore or specialty shop, confronti...
It seems so incredibly obvious you want to slap your forehead for being so obtuse all these years. Electric power costs a bundle in places like New York and California but barely a third as much in...
Fortune: RISKIEST INDUSTRIESupdated: Mon Apr 01 1996 00:01:00
No industry can guarantee safe shelter from the seismic movements that are reshaping the economy. But some are so vulnerable that employees will feel like they're working on top of the San Andreas ...
Six bright-yellow taxicabs powered by compressed natural gas are now bouncing through the potholes of New York City, the newest contestants in the great race to create alternative-fuel vehicles. Th...
There are mistakes, of course, and then there are mistakes. Boners. Wowsers. Plain dumb moves. Like babies, the worst mistakes look innocent at birth -- lustrous, even, with the promise of success....
Fortune: COMPANIES TO WATCHupdated: Mon Mar 25 1991 00:01:00
DURR-FILLAUER MEDICAL For this company, dealing drugs is an honest way to make a buck. Durr-Fillauer distributes pharmaceuticals and surgical supplies made by Merck, Upjohn, and other manufacturers...
During much of the 1980s, savers had it easy. To earn yields of 9% or more, all they had to do was put their spare cash in a money-market fund -- almost any would do -- or a bank certificate of dep...
This account of rage and frustration after a disaster comes from senior writer Joanna L. Krotz, who joined MONEY last fall shortly after she, husband Wayne E. Kuhn and three-year-old daughter Eva w...
Tired of chasing takeover stocks or trying to guess the economy's next turn? Try plugging your portfolio into some high-voltage electric utility stocks. Powered by lower interest rates and improvin...
A year ago MONEY profiled three stock pickers with top five-year performance records who exemplified different strategies suitable for small investors: Robert Flaherty, editor of the monthly OTC Re...
Greg Smith, 43, has repeatedly earned high honors on the Institutional Investor All-America Research Team, an annual ranking of the best Wall Street analysts and strategists. In the magazine's poll...
-- American Insured Mortgage Investors This partnership finances properties, receiving a portion of the rent as part of its return. By targeting properties due for rent increases, AIM may boost its...
Anyone hoping that a spring thaw will stir the seeds of growth in his stock portfolio may be indulging in wishful thinking. The post-crash market has followed a sawtooth course, producing only flee...
Money Magazine: Inflationproof incomeupdated: Sat Aug 01 1987 00:01:00
With economists forecasting that inflation will average 4% to 5% annually over the next three years, fixed-income investors should consider buying the shares of companies that have consistent recor...
As manager of the $600-million Eaton Vance Total Return Trust, Edwin Bragdon, 64, has consistently beaten the market by investing almost entirely in utility stocks. Shares in the Total Return Trust...
As fat bond yields become rarities, income-hungry investors are setting their sights on one of the last great bison herds around: electric utilities. Their stocks have been laggards in the recent m...
Banks are winning new respect as money managers. A recent study by CDA Investment Technologies, an investment research firm in Silver Spring, Maryland, concluded that bank portfolio managers outper...
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