If a $70 price cut could fuel that burst in consumer spending, just think of the demand Amazon will spark by knocking another $50 off the price tag. That’s right – a Wi-Fi ready Kindle can now be yours for the low price of just $139. Pre order now and you can get it by August 27.

More software woes for Apple today, with AAPL admitting that their mobile operating system iOS 4 is causing grief for iPhone 3G owners.

What lies ahead for the $2.8 trillion municipal bond market? Will it become the federal government’s next financial bailout? And what’s the best way for bond investors to succeed in this treacherous market?

Gold prices have had a good year, rising some +25%. In the last month though, gold has dropped about -8% from its peak and could fall further. Lower levels of fear for a 'double-dip' recession is the driver of lower gold prices.

Investors think that a mutual fund manager with experience should always know what is going to happen in the market -- but this is simply not true.

They say copper has a Ph.D. in Economics because it is so sensitive to economic activity. But, lately copper seems to have changed its qualification. It may be that it now has a Ph.D. In Chinndonesian economics, while giving up its prognostications on the dismal science regarding the West.

Amazon.com (NASDSAQ: AMZN) and its groundbreaking Kindle e-reader have been overshadowed as of late by electronics juggernaut Apple Inc. (AAPL) and the sexy new iPad.…

Internet juggernaut Google is creating a Facebook competitor of its own and is looking to take over the social-networking scene.

If Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) can sell more than 1.7 million iPhone 4 units in just three days in the U.S., it’s hard to imagine how long the lines will be when it hits the streets of China.

Today, GameStop acquired Kongregate. For anyone unfamiliar, Kongregate.com is a website that hosts thousands of games built in Adobe Flash, letting users the world over play the games right in their web browser.

The recent air show in Farnborough, England, put a lot of new planes on the order books for both Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) and the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. (PINK: EADSY), makers of the Airbus family of planes. The two companies have booked more than $25 billion in new orders at international air shows so far this year, and both have submitted bids for a US Air Force tanker aircraft contract worth $35 billion.

This morning's earnings report from EI DuPont de Nemours & Co. (NYSE: DD) continues the string of positive results from a Dow Jones component company. DuPont posted earnings per share of $1.26 on revenue of $8.62 billion, up from Dupont earnings of $0.61 and revenue of $6.86 billion in the same period last year.

Strong earnings for the first two weeks of this earnings season have pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average back into the black for the year. The Dow closed at 10,525.43 last night, up 100.81 points on the day. After falling to below 9,700 earlier this month, the benchmark index has risen 7.7% in July, some 4% of which occurred in the past three days.

. iPhone 4 sales goes on tour at the end of this week, launching in 17 countries on Friday. On the software front, Apple prepares to release iLife '11, the latest revision on the popular program suite.