Consumer Equipment and Supplies

Popcorn store owner cooks up new profits (Detroit News)

9 Jul 2008

The company pops a million pounds of corn kernels a year and rents out hundreds of slush machines, snow cone makers and hot dog steamers every week during the busy summer party season.

Wholesale Inventories Rise, Led by Computers, Metals and Farm Goods (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)

9 Jul 2008

While consumer borrowing increased in May, a decline in stockpiles puts distributors in a good place for scaling back production slowly in the face of a struggling economy.

Morningstar's Take on Stocks (Kiplinger Magazine via Yahoo! Finance)

9 Jul 2008

The mutual fund rater extends its domain. That's good news for individual investors.