Business

• Stocks up a third day, helped by housing report

• Home sales surge, boosting recovery hopes

• ‘Hot’ gifts are gone, stragglers find

• Economy needs more than a happy holiday

• Cheat sheet for investing in 2010

• Interactive: Experts’ stock picks for 2010

• Avoid the gifts that keep on costing

	Earnings

• Deere’s profit falls after drop in sales

• Tiffany raises forecasts for rest of the year

• Barnes & Noble, Borders post losses

• Spam maker's profit rises 50 percent

• Campbell's profits rise despite falling sales

• Tyson Foods profit drops, but sales rise

• Smucker's profit surges after acquiring Folgers

• Dell profit falls 54 percent amid PC slump

	Technology & Science

• Real-life high school musical smackdown!

• New crew to dock at space station

• Santa Claus: The real man behind the myth

• Rover makes discovery while spinning wheels

• New airport screeners could save time, energy