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Wall Street rallied Monday after Hurricane Katrina weakened, easing concerns about refinery outages along the Gulf of Mexico and pulling oil prices back from record highs.4.5

The number of foreign tourists visiting Paris increased by 8.8 percent in the first half of the year, with most travelers coming from the United States, the Paris Tourism ...4

Directors' compensation at the 350 largest public companies rose to a median of $155,000 in 2004, according to a survey released Monday by Mercer Human Resource Consulting.3.1

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South Africa's private borrowing increased by more than expected in July as consumers took advantage of low interest rates to buy cars and houses.2.9

Gary B. Smith is known throughout much of the investing world as "The Chartman" because of the continuing success of his charts and analysis in bear markets, bull markets ...2.9

Updated from 7:58 a.m. EDT 1. Five Strong Tech Stocks 2. The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week 3. Greenspan Plays Grinch 4. Airlines Need a New Approach 5.2.7

Eight former executives of accounting firm KPMG were indicted Monday, and the firm agreed to pay $456 million as it admitted it sold fraudulent shelters to help wealthy ...2.7

Antitrust Commissioner Dror Strum decided yesterday to approve the sale of Clubmarket to Supersol.2.7

CDC Corp.'s chief executive and chief financial officer resigned Tuesday amid a restructuring.2.7

Production of cars, trucks and buses in Japan fell 2.5 percent in July from the same month last year, the first such decline in seven months, producers said Tuesday.2.7

Erik Weihenmayer was the first blind climber to scale Mt. Everest. Now he's helping corporations see things in a different light.2.7

The inequalities persist and threaten development strides in the Middle East and North Africa despite sharp declines in poverty from 1981 to 2001, according to a United ...2.7

Irish building materials group CRH posted a 20 percent rise in first-half pretax profit on Tuesday thanks to a booming U.S. construction industry and said it expected to ...2.7

U.S. chain store retail sales fell for the fourth consecutive week as warm weather continued to depress consumer interest in fall apparel, a report said on Tuesday.2.7

Boeing Co. has submitted a revised contract offer that would boost cash bonuses by at least $1,500, but machinists union leaders representing 18,400 production workers say ...2.7

Top shares recovered almost half of last week's losses on Tuesday, lifted by oil major BP after it said its Thunder Horse platform seemed to be in stable condition in the ...2.9

That's the question Providian's investors will face Wednesday when they are asked to approve the acquisition.2.7

Mortgage lending in the UK is rising at its slowest rate since January 2002, according to the Bank of England.2.9

Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills rose in Monday's auction to the highest levels in more than four years.2.7

Intelsat, created in 1964 through a partnership of 147 nations and then privatized in 2001, will also assume $3.2 billion of debt from PanAmSat in the deal, the companies ...2.7

As a strike by its mechanics union stretches into its second week, Northwest Airlines is getting ready to ask its other large unions for more concessions in pay and benefits.2.7

Beleaguered drug maker Merck & Co.'s request to postpone the next trial over its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx was turned down Monday by the New Jersey judge presiding over the ...2.7

The Westport Office Park sale isn't the only good-sized recent deal in Silicon Valley.2.7

Property group Hammerson saw a 1.9% rise in underlying first-half profits which rose to 42.8m from 42 for the same time last year.2.7

State Sen. Luke Rankin said Standard & Poor's removed the negative outlook from Santee Cooper's financial ratings because of the bill he sponsored that put new controls on ...2.7

To a degree not seen in years, financial firms dominated commercial office leasing activity in Manhattan in the first half of 2005.2.7

Steve Higdon resigned yesterday as president and chief executive of Greater Louisville Inc., and Chief Operating Officer Joe Reagan was appointed as his successor.2.7

The last time George Clooney scored big in Las Vegas, he played a character who ripped off a casino in the movie "Ocean's Eleven." Now, instead of taking oodles of cash out ...2.7

Some hedge fund investors are asking that question amid the apparent collapse of the Bayou Group, a Connecticut hedge fund firm under investigation by federal and state ...2.7

NEW YORK When more than 100 partners of Coudert Brothers, one of the oldest law firms in New York, gathered for their annual meeting in a ballroom at the Hotel Pierre in ...4

The Communications Workers of America elected Larry Cohen on Monday to succeed its longtime president Morton Bahr, who led the union for two decades through a turbulent ...3.1

The NDCHealth Corporation , a health care software developer, said yesterday that it would be acquired by Per-Se Technologies , with a portion of the business spun off to ...2.7

FRANKFURT Consumer confidence in Germany, the largest European economy, increased for the first month in five as shoppers grew more optimistic before the Sept.2.7

China's biggest lender, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China , may sign a memorandum of understanding to sell a multi-billion dollar stake to a consortium comprising ...2.9

MedImmune licensed the worldwide rights from GlaxoSmithKline to develop antistaphylococcal monoclonal antibodies, in exchange for an upfront payment and possible milestone ...2.7

A Las Vegas company that has cash access machines on the floors of more than 900 casinos is preparing to roll out devices that will print ticket in-ticket out coupons that ...2.7

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