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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:59pm EST
In cutting across-the-board subsidies for biofuels, governments in Europe are discovering how difficult it can be to figure out whether a particular fuel has been produced in an environmentally friendly manner.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:58pm EST
Anheuser-Busch, which buys more commercial time each year in the Super Bowl than any other marketer, is likely to run seven spots in Super Bowl XLII on Feb. 3, all of them for Budweiser or Bud Light.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:55pm EST
ACA Capital Holdings Inc. has received an additional month to unwind an estimated $69 billion of credit exposure stemming from the subprime mortgage crisis.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:54pm EST
Nonetheless, some investors expect the bank to cut borrowing costs this year, backtracking from its pledge to raise interest rates gradually.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:54pm EST
The world’s largest producer of iron ore, Companhia Vale do Rio Doce of Brazil, said it was in talks with a rival, Swiss-based Xstrata, about a merger.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:49pm EST
Is an attorney’s fierce devotion to an individual client’s interests a passé concept?
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:26pm EST
Rene Foss, a flight attendant, has a one-woman show called “Around the World in a Bad Mood,” in which she ridicules the airline industry and everything about it.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:26pm EST
While government-controlled funds swear up and down that their investments are purely financially motivated, they just can’t be.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:26pm EST
Quebecor World, the second-largest commercial printer in the world, made the move after its banks failed to approve a rescue plan.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:23pm EST
The auction for rights to a highly valuable swath of the nation’s airwaves will begin Thursday and is expected to include multibillion-dollar bids from the nation’s two biggest wireless phone companies.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:22pm EST
The turmoil in the mortgage markets has incited a wave of legal tangles, as homeowners are suing lenders, lenders are suing banks, banks are suing loan specialists. And investors are suing everyone.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:20pm EST
Three-quarters of corporate travel managers said they expect airline mergers to result in higher fares and more than half expect the quality of service to suffer.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:19pm EST
Mr. Sorenson overcame a learning disability and built a fortune in innovative medical devices and real estate.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:16pm EST
Since late summer, the United States economy has demonstrated an enduring power to surprise. And not for the better.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:16pm EST
The British Treasury said it would facilitate a sale of the troubled mortgage lender while trying to ensure that taxpayers will not have to pay for the bank’s rescue.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:15pm EST
There is something wonderful about being 35,000 feet in the air, looking down on the earth, that gives an artist a new perspective.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:15pm EST
Major airlines have raised fares again, a week after a round of $50 round-trip fare increases collapsed when Continental Airlines rescinded its increases, causing all the others to back off as well.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:14pm EST
Many of the reader-generated reviews of travel services on the Web are taking an ever-growing piece of the market from print guides.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:12pm EST
European Union officials this week will aim to reduce corporate influence and make polluting more expensive.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:02pm EST
Some analysts saw Monday’s sell-off, with leading indexes off 4 percent to 7 percent worldwide, as being driven by fear more than by fact.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:01pm EST
Lachlan Murdoch and the gambling magnate James D. Packer have made an offer of 3.3 billion Australian dollars ($2.9 billion) to buy Consolidated Media Holdings.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 3:19am EST
The Sundance Film Festival’s opening weekend drew to a close looking more and more like a disappointment, if not an outright dud.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 2:33am EST
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said that the government should take an active role in the economy to address what she said were the excesses of the market and of the Bush administration.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 1:12am EST
A former Special Forces soldier has created a loyal following on the Web with his accounts of frontline soldiers’ daily work in Iraq.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 1:10am EST
Bausch & Lomb, the eye health company, said it had acquired a rival, eyeonics Inc., for an undisclosed amount.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 1:06am EST
Reporters are using instant messages and the Twitter service to pump out details from the campaign trail.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 1:01am EST
James E. O’Shea followed the path of his predecessor. He refused to cut newsroom jobs, and lost his own.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 12:51am EST
Getty Images, the world’s biggest supplier of pictures and video to media and advertising companies, has put itself on the auction block.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 12:49am EST
Texas Instruments hopes that new chips can lead to more realistic video game play and 3-D DVDs.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 12:45am EST
The European market rules will force deals to be made one country at a time.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 12:40am EST
The actor takes aim at The San Francisco Chronicle in response to a satirical article that suggested celebrities in decline associate with “notorious dictators.”
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 12:38am EST
A union representing some of the paper’s employees is using the campaign to highlight its disagreements with the paper’s management.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 12:35am EST
Executives at The Atlantic hope that a rise in the magazine’s Web traffic brings the publication something it hasn’t had in many years: a profit.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 12:14am EST
The release of existing-home sales numbers on Thursday highlight a slow week for economic data.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 12:06am EST
A promotional campaign for an online gambling Web site will enlist the help of London taxi drivers to engage passengers in conversation and promote the site.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 12:05am EST
Eleven companies are teaming up to see how they can work with thousands of their suppliers to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
