While the themes in this year's Super Bowl ads ran the gamut from poking fun of emasculated males to take-offs on popular TV shows, experts agreed that a simple appeal to motherly love seemed to speak strongest to viewers.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_topstories/~4/lwDUXEk_Dmw" height="1" width="1"/

Wall Street avoided a bigger walloping late last week, with sellers finally calling it quits after a nearly 10% plunge in less than three weeks. But the week ahead could be pivotal as investors either jump back in - or retreat even further.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_topstories/~4/BEnHOz-CHKA" height="1" width="1"/

Toyota Motor notified dealers it is prepared to unveil a solution to problems with the brake system of the popular Prius hybrid sedan, as well as a public relations campaign to try to repair its battered image.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_topstories/~4/uCdvl_jMXIM" height="1" width="1"/

President Obama has been talking -- a lot -- about what Washington needs to do to help save small businesses. Over the past week, he's introduced a half-dozen different initiatives aimed at unlocking credit, creating jobs and expanding the Small Business Administration's loan programs.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_topstories/~4/neiC2tJsVwI" height="1" width="1"/

The number of discouraged job seekers is at an all time high. These readers tell us what it's like to give up on the job search.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_topstories/~4/pkFJ4J3nmwo" height="1" width="1"/

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Goldman Sachs stunned many in the Wall Street community Friday by awarding chief executive Lloyd Blankfein $9 million as his year-end bonus, far less than many were anticipating, and none of it in cash.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_topstories/~4/NwSRfhLEviY" height="1" width="1"/