1. Record oil price drags down U.S. stocks data: 10.04.08
Oil prices surged to a fresh record high, piercing $112 a barrel at one point, on Wednesday as a new spate of recession fears and a bleak corporate profit outlook pulled down U.S. stocks.
2. Motorola divides into two separate companies data: 27.03.08
Motorola's chief executive said he hoped that by spinning off the unprofitable mobile phone unit, the company would have better luck attracting a new chief executive to revive it.
3. Can the Group of 7 fix the system itself? data: 10.04.08
When the Group of 7 reveals its response to the global financial markets crisis on Friday, one question they will find hard to answer is: Can you fix the system itself? History suggests not.
4. Ford closes sale of Jaguar and Land Rover to Tata of India data: 27.03.08
Tata Motors said Wednesday it would buy the luxury brands Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford Motor for about $2.3 billion in cash, less than half the price that Ford paid for the two companies.
5. Big-is-better theory loses appeal data: 07.04.08
Battle lines are forming in banking that pit bigger-is-better theorists against breakup advocates.
6. Dow falls after downbeat reports data: 27.03.08
A pair of pessimistic reports on home sales and business spending reminded investors about the precarious state of the economy.
7. Yahoo is said to rebuff Microsoft threat over bid data: 07.04.08
Yahoo is expected to reject merger negotiations with Microsoft and explain why its board believes the current offer price is too low.
8. Volcker, ex-Fed chairman, chides current one data: 10.04.08
The imposing former Fed chief who felled the runaway inflation of the 1980s chided Ben Bernanke for toeing "the very edge" of the bank's legal authority in orchestrating the bailout of Bear Stearns.
9. U.S. equity loans are next round in credit crisis data: 27.03.08
Lulled by good times, millions of Americans borrowed â sometimes heavily â against the roofs over their heads. Now the bill is coming due.
10. Fed loses its unified voice data: 10.04.08
As the U.S. Federal Reserve Board deals with the biggest American financial crisis in a generation, its policies are coming under criticism from within.
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