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Passengers faced confusion and long delays after the airline canceled more flights in an effort to inspect and repair wiring on its 300-plane fleet of MD-80s. More cancellations are expected Thursday.
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Advocates for small businesses are fighting changes in tax laws that the Bush administration says are aimed at cracking down on tax cheating, particularly by the self-employed.
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The new delivery date puts the plane, known as the Dreamliner, more than a year behind its original schedule.
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Sue Naegle, a Hollywood talent agent, faces the task of finding the network’s next “Sopranos.”
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David Dorman will become Motorola’s non-executive chairman next month as the struggling cell phone maker tries to fix its slumping fortunes and split itself into two companies.
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Gasoline set yet another record at the pump and crude oil topped $112 a barrel for the first time in the futures market.
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The struggling electronics retailer posted a fourth-quarter profit of $4.85 million, as cost cutting offset lower sales for a period that included the bulk of the crucial holiday season.
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The Justice Department has put off prosecuting more than 50 companies over the last three years.
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In every other expansion since World War II, the buying power of most American families grew while the economy did.
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The gloom pervading the financial markets and the business climate has reached the land of innovation.
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Farmers are taking their fields out of a government conservation program that pays them not to cultivate.
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The United States, a new report says, isn’t falling behind the rest of the developed world in Internet infrastructure after all.
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The administration proposed loosening eligibility criteria for new mortgages insured by the federal government.
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Pfizer and Nektar Therapeutics said clinical trials of the inhaled insulin Exubera found increased cases of lung cancer, leading Nektar to abandon the troubled product.
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Inventories rose 1.1 percent in February, more than twice what analysts had expected, while sales fell 0.8 percent in the biggest drop in a year, the government reported.
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Oasis Hong Kong Airlines suddenly went into liquidation on Wednesday and canceled all flights, the fourth budget carrier worldwide to halt operations in the last week and a half.
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The vote by Japan’s Parliament ended a long political standoff that had left the bank leaderless at a time of global financial turmoil.
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Mr. Eberle pushed Europe and Japan to lower trade barriers as President Richard M. Nixon’s chief trade negotiator in the 1970s.
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A bipartisan effort in the Senate to stabilize the housing market and offer aid to struggling homeowners began to crumble Tuesday, as the White House threatened a veto.
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The Bush administration and Congressional leaders are counting on the F.H.A. to rescue thousands of struggling homeowners, but the agency has financial woes of its own.
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The sets will be made under license by Funai Electric, while the company focuses its U.S. business on health care devices, lighting and other electronic products.
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Former Fed chief Paul A. Volcker criticized the Bear Stearns bailout at a meeting where officials acknowledged the downturn may be “prolonged and severe.”
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BP and ConocoPhillips joined forces to try to develop Alaska’s vast reserves of natural gas, saying they would spend billions to build a North Slope pipeline.
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Brokers say that many locally owned stores, squeezed between big national chains and foreign retailers, are finding that the only way to stay afloat in Manhattan is at a new site.
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Behind the sunset-colored facade of the Peaks Resort, the largest hotel in the tony ski enclave of Telluride, Colo., is a tangled tale of a hotel that couldn’t shoot straight.
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Gail J. McGovern, formerly of AT&T and Fidelity Investments, will take over the battered organization.
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John J. Mack, facing down an investor campaign to unseat him as the chairman of Morgan Stanley, was re-elected by an overwhelming margin on Tuesday.
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Web and cable viewers flock to ads with bleeps that mask vulgarities.
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Stocks slipped on Tuesday after disappointing first-quarter earnings reports, then fell further after minutes from the Fed’s March 18 meeting were released.
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A former board member of the New York Mercantile Exchange was among seven charged in an investigation of illegal trading at the exchange, authorities said.
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A report by the French stock market watchdog that was leaked to a French news service provided details of the insider trading claims against executives at Airbus and EADS.
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The Iomega Corporation said that it had accepted an increased cash takeover offer of $213 million from the EMC Corporation.
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If you think paying taxes is unfair, illegal or unconstitutional, then watch out — the Justice Department is after you.
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A plan to privatize the world’s largest electricity company is entering the home stretch, successfully it seems, in spite of its complexity and the hostility toward privatization in today’s Russia.
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Betting that the long-frozen credit markets are starting to thaw, Apollo Management, TPG Capital and the Blackstone Group have agreed in principle to buy about $12.5 billion of loans from Citigroup.
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Washington Mutual, hit hard by delinquencies and defaults on mortgages, said it would receive $7 billion in new capital from an investment group led by TPG Capital.
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The former chief of Caremark Rx who orchestrated its $26.5 billion sale last year to the drugstore chain CVS is getting into the deal business full time.
