Commentary

Howard Schultz announced this week that he will be stepping down as the executive chairman of Starbucks. The two names are synonymous, but few know Schultz's interesting back story.

Like all industries over time, things change, and the weak got obliterated, and the fast movers get success.

Value investing is a very difficult business because, when the stock market is richly valued, it's hard to find big discounts and these investors don't follow the herd on Wall Street and the institutional investor mentality.

There's an amenities arms race among office landlords, who are aggressively changing the landscape of how services are delivered to their tenants.

For emerging markets this is a potential very dangerous issue as they have US dollar denominated debt in many cases which they will now have a hard time covering.

Cloud-based construction accounting software can help general contractors, homebuilders, subcontractors, specialty contractors and land developers increase margins and tighten project control, says Integrated Business Systems' Mike Mullin.

Global developments are making it likely that more capital will flow to into US commercial real estate, seeking a safe home.

Happy Days are here again! Wall Street M&A and mega-deals are back—billions and billions of dollars' worth of them.