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Plummeting profit could help Howard Stringer turn Sony around
The CEO is using falling earnings and the dire economy as...
Economy is going from bad to worse, reports show
Three government reports on unemployment, housing and...
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The latest media company to make cutbacks as advertising falls says it will...
The Commerce Department reports that new orders for durable goods fell 5.7% in 2008 with big drops in...
LABOR
A strike by members of the United Steelworkers union would affect more than half of the nation's refining...
The Dow sinks 226 points to 8,149 as investors fret that corporate earnings will continue to suffer as...
They are down nearly 15%, the government reports. Compared with the same period a year earlier,...
Occidental earned $443 million in the quarter, compared with $1.45 billion in...
Government figures show about 4.78 million people continue to claim unemployment insurance, the highest...
The former president of MTV will oversee the cable channel, which will replace the Discovery Health...
Sprint Nextel Corp., which lost one case over early termination fees, defeated an effort to force the...
U.S. automakers reliably resist regulation, to their detriment.
EARNINGS ROUNDUP
Starbucks to fire thousands as quarterly profit falls 69%
RETIREMENT
Millions saw the value of the retirement accounts plunge an average of 27% last year, Fidelity finds in a...
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