Written by Jim Motavalli It's become a ritual for startup electric car companies: The ritual exchange of keys, as the very first customer takes possession. For Coda Automotive, it happened March 16 in Los Angeles, and the new owners are an eco-conscious advertising executive named Carmen and one of the company's investors, Daniel Weiss. In ...

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 18:55

Lots of other electric car companies are flashier, but this China/California hybrid has a hyper-cautious strategy that makes sense as the electric vehicle market gets off to a slow start.

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 22:24

When is a person a brand? When he becomes a makeup line. That, anyway, would seem to be the case for artists these days: with MAC having launched its collaboration with photographer-of-the-moment Cindy ??last year, Nars cosmetics, according to the L.A. Times, has joined up with the Andy Warhol Foundation to create a new makeup ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 09:56

The new dividend and stock buyback are great. But what about investing in key tech players?

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 17:55

Sometimes, it seems we are living in a "Golden Age of Alarmism," with so much fantastically bad news about all the things that are supposedly killing us that it's difficult to keep track of what, precisely, we should be afraid of; fear itself, perhaps. Do I get cancer from eating any red meat, or just ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 19:55

If you read the editorial page of the Journal (or surf around the nether regions of Forbes.com), you may come to the conclusion that no aspect of tax policy is more important for economic growth than the way we tax capital gains. ??You?d be wrong. The chart displayed above shows top tax rates on long-term ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 18:54

A group of our advisors attended a conference this past fall sponsored by Dimensional Fund Advisors. In his talk, ?Risk Dimensions of the Market,? Eugene F. Fama reviewed the latest data on the Fama-French three-factor model for investment returns. Modeling investment returns seeks to find an equation to predict your expected returns as much as ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 14:50

The Car: 2012 Buick Enclave Where I drove it: Four out of five boroughs, and??Long Island, too. First Impressions: I've watched the "Cars" movie at least 17 times over the past three months. I have a three year old, and this is the only program he wants to see during his allocated television time. I ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 16:26

In trading on Friday, shares of Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE: CAH) crossed above their 200 day moving average of $42.38, changing hands as high as $42.59 per share. Cardinal Health, Inc. shares are currently trading up about 1.6% on the day. The chart below shows the one year performance of CAH shares, versus its 200 ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 22:25

Better engines, more fuels and electrification are the answers to the world's future mobility needs, says Renault-Nissan's CEO

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 20:55