Choosing the right investments in the coming year will not be easy. Many Wall Street pros are advocating defensive strategies, and a few, surprisingly, think 2008 might turn out to be a pretty good year for the markets after all.

Buyers of ultra-high-end cars have fallen into two camps — performance or luxury. But now automakers are betting more big-spenders fall somewhere in between the two extremes.

For most of us the holiday season is an ambivalent combination of joy and stress. But for one business sector it is a nail-biting, make-or-break six weeks — the liquor industry.

For most people, a wedding is a simple, joyous occasion. For billionaires it's more complicated, with stresses and strains that others don't bear.

America's elite universities' predominance is increasingly defined by the great magnitude of their wealth relative to their modest size and to the rest of the higher-ed universe.

With oil prices flirting with $100 a barrel, who in the world would want a large, gas-guzzling sport-utility vehicle? Quite a lot of people, as it turns out.

While automakers compete fiercely for drivers of modest means and margins keep thinning, luxury brands such as Porsche, BMW and Daimler grow more robust every year.

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