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The European plane maker Airbus announced another delay Tuesday in deliveries of its A380 superjumbo, a report that came as no surprise to a market ...…
May 13 2008 9:47AM EDT
Westpac Banking said Tuesday that it would acquire its smaller rival St. George in a takeover worth about 18.5 billion Australian dollars or about ...…
May 13 2008 9:42AM EDT
Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, reported a 7 percent rise in quarterly profit Tuesday as discounts drew shoppers looking for ...…
May 13 2008 8:46AM EDT
The Hewlett-Packard Company, the personal computer and printer maker, said Tuesday that it would acquire the Electronic Data Systems Corporation ...…
May 13 2008 8:46AM EDT
PARIS - Societe Generale, the large French bank pummeled by a rogue trading scandal, reported Tuesday that its net profit fell 23.4 percent in the ...…
May 13 2008 5:57AM EDT
The Nissan Motor Company plans to sell an electric car in the United States and Japan by 2010, raising the stakes in the race to develop ...…
May 13 2008 2:20AM EDT
Maurice R. Greenberg, the former chief executive of the American International Group, says the company is in "crisis" and urged a delay in its ...…
May 12 2008 11:48PM EDT
IndyMac Bancorp swung to a loss in the first quarter as deteriorating credit markets forced the company, a mortgage lender, to lower the value of ...…
May 12 2008 11:48PM EDT
In the biggest workplace immigration raid this year, federal agents swept into a kosher meat plant on Monday in Postville, Iowa, and arrested more ...…
May 12 2008 11:48PM EDT
The United States Court of Federal Claims began another hearing on Monday to decide whether a vaccine additive led thousands of children to become ...…
May 12 2008 11:48PM EDT
In 2005, state and city officials were so eager to keep Goldman Sachs downtown that they provided the investment bank with one of the biggest ...…
May 12 2008 11:48PM EDT
The Italian aerospace company Finmeccanica reached a $5.2 billion deal to buy DRS Technologies, securing a bigger presence in the growing United ...…
May 12 2008 11:33PM EDT
After a news conference on Monday introducing Jimmy Fallon as the next host of the 12:35 a.m. "Late Night" series, Ben Silverman, the co-chairman ...…
May 12 2008 11:24PM EDT
Jane R. Eisner, former editorial page editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, was nominated Monday to become editor of The Forward, the Jewish ...…
May 12 2008 11:24PM EDT
ABC on Tuesday is expected to announce a lineup of scripted prime-time shows for next year that will look a lot like this year's slate, with two ...…
May 12 2008 11:24PM EDT
Charter Communications, the cable TV provider, said Monday it narrowed its first-quarter loss on a 13 percent increase in average revenue per user ...…
May 12 2008 11:21PM EDT
Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio, the pay radio stations that are seeking to merge, both reported solid gains in subscribers on Monday ...…
May 12 2008 11:21PM EDT
After years of insisting on standard pricing for digital downloads, Apple is apparently ready to acknowledge that not all television shows are ...…
May 12 2008 11:21PM EDT
Kenneth C. Griffin, who runs one of the biggest and most successful hedge fund firms, has a blunt assessment: "We, as an industry, dropped the ...…
May 12 2008 10:44PM EDT
No one really knows how the African-American preference for menthol cigarettes developed in the first place.. . Some scientists speculate that ...…
May 12 2008 10:44PM EDT
Some public health experts are questioning why menthol, the most widely used cigarette flavoring and the most popular cigarette choice of ...…
May 12 2008 10:44PM EDT
The Bobby Valentine on view in the documentary "The Zen of Bobby V" is both familiar and alien to those who recall him managing the Mets and the ...…
May 12 2008 10:02PM EDT
After a year of bickering and courtroom battles, Clear Channel Communications finally may be sold.. . The two private equity firms seeking to buy ...…
May 12 2008 9:46PM EDT
Wall Street rallied on Monday as oil prices fell, easing some investors' concerns about accelerating inflation. The Dow Jones industrials gained ...…
May 12 2008 9:00PM EDT
MBIA Inc., the bond insurer, posted a quarterly loss of $2.4 billion on Monday as it took charges on billions of dollars of exposure to bonds ...…
May 12 2008 8:44PM EDT
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