Politics once again intruded on sports this week -- or maybe it was the other way around -- when Alex Rodriguez admitted he used steroids from 2001 to 2003.

LOS ANGELES, CA -- Jeffrey Gundlach leans back in his chair, and rolls what seems to be a puff of smoke around in his mouth. Actually he's not smoking a cigar, but Gundlach -- the chief investment officer of Trust Company of the West, and one of the best money-management brains on the planet -- often seems to be savoring the words that are about to emerge.

SEATTLE, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- "Jim Cramer giveth," as one investor here put it, "and Jim Cramer taketh away." A number of international tech and Asia-focused funds were caught in a trading b

NEW YORK, May 13 (UPI) -- Protests in Afghanistan are spreading. Violence in Iraq catches fewer headlines, and has taken fewer American lives in recent months, but continues unabated. Is

VALOGNE, France, May 6 (UPI) -- Voters go to the polls here in a few weeks to voice their opinion on both the question of Europe, and the leadership of President Jacques Chirac. If they could,

NEW YORK, April 29 (UPI) -- Oil prices tried to close below $50 this week, and as of early Friday, couldn't. Is oil going to $100 a barrel, as a Goldman Sachs report warned early in April?

WASHINGTON, April 15 (UPI) -- With the unsentimentality they are noted for, a number of significant investors are now beginning to regard George Bush as an emerging lame-duck president, at l

WASHINGTON, April 13 (UPI) -- Indonesia was hit harder than any other country by December's deadly tsunami, and deserves sympathy and praise for its response to the crisis. But investors, li

NEW YORK, April 8 (UPI) -- New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's forthcoming appearance before a group of independent researchers and analysts, the April 13 Investorside.org conferenc