1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. High rice prices no windfall for many Asian farmers data: 07.04.08
For many rice farmers in Asia, the commodity they produce ends up as food in their stomachs, not cash in their bank accounts.
5. Major banks promise new guidelines to try to head off further regulation data: 10.04.08
The Institute for International Finance, a banking group, said new strictures are priorities for industry action, not government fiat.
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. Pssst - Want an unlocked phone? data: 27.03.08
Wireless carriers often offer customers cheap or free phones in exchange for multi-year contracts, but then the phones are technologically "locked" - the subscriber cannot cancel the contract and sign up for service with another company.
8. U.S. Senate panels to investigate Bear Stearns deal data: 27.03.08
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr. defended the takeover even as he called for more transparency on the part of Wall Street.
9. Asian businesses and workers suffer from dollar's weakness data: 27.03.08
The sliding value of the U.S. dollar against most global currencies is putting many businesses and workers under increasing financial pressure.
10. Microsoft said to be talking with News Corp. about joint Yahoo bid data: 10.04.08
The combination, which would join Yahoo, Microsoft's MSN and News Corp.'s MySpace, would create a behemoth that would upend the Internet landscape.
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