Reuters - U.S. stocks are poised for a rally next week as lower crude prices fuel investors' optimism that businesses and consumers will get a break from high energy costs and have more cash to spend this holiday season.

Airbus will have to pay 'a couple of million dollars' in compensation for late A380 superjumbo deliveries, the company says.

French company BPB is widely expected to raise its offer for UK plasterboard maker BPB to £3.8bn, reports claim.

Workers at General Motors agree to a deal that will cut the carmaker's huge healthcare bill.

Reuters - Washington is urging OPEC to keep oil markets well supplied and Gulf Arab producers to offer assurances that their output expansion plans would meet future global demand, U.S. officials said.

AFP - Palestinian civil affairs minister Mohammed Dahlan lashed out at Israel for "suffocating" the Palestinian economy by dragging its heels over the opening of Gaza's borders with Egypt and Israel.

Airport operator BAA is to table an offer for Hungary's Budapest Airport before the bidding process closes on Monday.

Reuters - A New York hedge fund wants McDonald's to spin off its company-owned restaurants, but analysts said the company was unlikely to be persuaded and could be headed for a standoff with investors.

Reuters - Strikers at bankrupt U.S. copper miner Asarco voted to accept an agreement with the subsidiary of Grupo Mexico and pending bankruptcy court approval should be back at work on Tuesday, a top union leader said on Sunday.

Reuters - Georgia Pacific Corp. on Sunday agreed to be bought by conglomerate Koch Industries, Inc. for $13.2 billion in a deal that will make the manufacturer of products like Quilted Northern bathroom tissue and Brawny paper towels a privately held Koch subsidiary.

The major drug makers remain highly profitable, but at some, sales are stagnant and profits are falling, leading to layoffs and cuts in research budgets.

The recording industry now identifies the simple copying and sharing of CD's with friends as the biggest threat to its bottom line.

Warner Brothers is preparing a major new Internet service starting early next year that will let fans watch full episodes from more than 100 old television series.

Two media entrepreneurs see national business potential in taking on student-run campus newspapers.

As the Internet's reach has extended worldwide, an international political battle over its control has arisen.

A new book offers a new twist on obvious corporate tie-ins, with a more subtle connection and no clear disclosure of Saks's involvement.

Reuters - Oil rebounded to $58 on Monday after falling to a four-month low last week, when a big rise in U.S. crude stocks and mild weather conditions soothed some fears of a winter supply shortfall.