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After Greg Smith quit Goldman Sachs in the most public fashion possible -- slamming his employer in the pages of The New York Times -- the firm launched an investigation into his most explosive charge: that employees referred to clients as "muppets" in internal emails.

That's the question posed in a new survey of voters' financial health. The conclusion? Despite what you might be hearing on the news today, seven of the 12 so-called "swing states" could be "in play" come November.

Microsoft is no longer willing to simply put out the software and establish the ecosystems for the benefit of its longtime hardware partners. The company wants some more skin in the hardware game.

In honor of tonight's festivities, we've put together a collection of candidate trivia, a glimpse of the ways the candidates differ -- and the surprising similarities they share.

Shares of real estate services provider Realogy, whose brands Century 21, Coldwell Banker and The Corcoran Group, soared more than 22 percent in their first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

The wave of foreclosures hitting the nation's housing market has been much less severe than anticipated, with foreclosure filings at their lowest level in five years last month, according to a report out Thursday.

Ruby Tuesday posted distinctly uninspiring quarterly results after Wednesday's market close. So is it time for investors to leave behind this stagnant casual dining concept?

While some of the biggest brands have grown their values by more than 20% since last year's report by Interbrand, others have fallen precipitously. Here are the brands that lost the most value over the past year.

GM has been cleaning up its act and has the profits to show for it. But the competition has never been stiffer, all over the world, and GM's cars will have to be top-notch to assure the success of a turnaround.

Dish Network needed this week's deal that will allow it to continue broadcasting local television channels in some of Gannett's markets, but it's just one less problem that the company has to tackle.

Do the presidential candidates prefer pepperoni or sausage on their pizza? If one rogue attendee of the second presidential debate poses this question to Barack Obama or Mitt Romney, Pizza Hut pledges to provide him or her with free pizza for life.