By Adrienne Burke Blogger/Writer, Yahoo! Small Business By Adrienne Burke | SmallBiz Vote – 23 hours ago If you’re among the many small business owners who regularly forfeit the home office tax deduction for fear of attracting an audit or because it is just too complicated to calculate, there’s good news for you out of Washington...

By John Melloy | CNBC – 3 hours ago @cnbc on Twitter On Wall Street, the retail investor is often seen as the dumb money. As the thinking goes, by the time Main Street has caught onto a bullish or bearish trend, it’s time for the so-called smart money – the professionals – to do the opposite. Those days may be over, thanks...

low high gain % 2012 1.51 2.04 0.53 35% 2011 2.19 2.67 0.48 22% 2010 2.1 2.5 0.4 19% 2009 0.63 0.83 0.2 32% 2008 2.44 2.96 0.52 21% 2007 8.62 9.7 1.08 13% 2006 17.67 20.6 2.93 17% 2005 15.29 15.74 0.45 3% 2004 10 15.99 5.99 60% 2003 1.61 2.45 0.84 52% 2002 9.1 11.47 2.37 26% 2001 37 53.25 16.25 44% 29%

By Henry Blodget | Daily Ticker   A major story in Friday’s New York Times confirmed something that most Americans understand, which is that today’s tax rates are low compared with tax rates in the early 1980s. They’re also low when you compare the United States to other developed countries. And they’re low when you include...

By Katy Barnato | CNBC – 1 hour 8 minutes ago @cnbc on Twitter The S&P 500 is set to fall another 8 percent by the end of the year, on top of the 7 percent decline seen since the year’s high reached in September, according to a new strategy note by Goldman Sachs. “Uncertainty swirling around the ‘fiscal cliff‘ that...

By Jennifer Carinci | Breakout – Fri, Nov 18, 2011 8:51 AM EST Follow us on Facebook! Feeling thankful for the +0.03% gain in your portfolio this year? Good, you should. With the S&P 500 falling back in the red this week, now down 3.3% in 2011 (as of Thursday’s close), any profit, even pennies is a positive. And with the cost...

  Tactical Ramp Ahead   Since 1950, the 4th quarter of an election year has historically been very strong for the S&P 500 (SPX). Of the past 15 elections, the 4th quarter of the election year was up 13 times. The only two negative occurrences were in the recessions of 2000 and 2008, so unless you believe we are in a recession with money...

By Jeff Cox | CNBC – 1 hour 18 minutes ago @cnbc on Twitter Corporations are stowing away cash at record rates, reluctant to invest in their businesses or hire new workers as uncertainty clouds the future. Amid a lackluster earning season that has featured many companies missing sales expectations, cash balances have swelled 14 percent and...

One Algorithm Made Up 4% of Quote Traffic Last Week By John Melloy | CNBC – Mon, Oct 8, 2012 4:48 PM EDT @cnbc on Twitter A single mysterious computer program that placed orders – and then subsequently canceled them – made up 4 percent of all quote traffic in the U.S. stock market last week, according to the top tracker of high-frequency...

By Kristy Wolski Fox 5 San Diego Reporter10:11 p.m. PDT, October 3, 2012 LA MESA, Calif. – Gas prices are rising rapidly in San Diego County and some stations could soon run out of gasoline, a La Mesa store owner said Wednesday. Dave Hallak, owner of Emerald Oil at 5600 Baltimore Drive, received a call Wednesday morning from his gasoline supplier...