President Bush is preparing to finish an agreement with Brazil to promote the production and use of ethanol throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.

More companies are helping large corporate clients create services resembling MySpace or YouTube to bring their customers together online.

The Bush administration announced the winner of a competition to design the nation?s first new nuclear weapon in nearly two decades.

Most employees have little ammunition going into a meeting to talk about their pay, but a few Web sites are trying to level the playing field.

Reuters - Global factors may on balance have boosted U.S. inflation, but globalization has not affected the ability of the Federal Reserve to influence U.S. financial conditions, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Friday.

Reuters - The co-chief executives of Airbus parent company EADS said there was no alternative to thousands of job cuts at the troubled European planemaker and warned that strikes would only make things worse.

Reuters - Ford Motor Co. is in exclusive talks with Prodrive, a motor racing company, over the potential sale of the U.S. carmaker's Aston Martin luxury car unit, The Times said on Saturday.

United Artists in its new incarnation is a basket of contradictions and question marks.

There is an argument to be made that if Wave is ever going to succeed, the moment of truth has arrived.

Free Wi-Fi is to the cafe what cold air was to the cinema.

Trying to make a case for one satellite radio company instead of two.

At least one housing market analyst is upbeat about the sector.

Unity Village, in Portland, Me., is stirring again after decades of neglect.

In China, the stock market dominos could fall. But a collapse would not resemble 1997?s.

China?s latest revolution is sexual: soft-core, online and the girls-next-door gone wild.

An increasing number of parents want to spend their often-scarce leisure time with their children, doing something enriching and educational.

Driven by ethanol, cornfields are fetching record prices.

Social networks that tap the interests and buying power of traditionally reserved groups like the bookish are a small but growing force on the Web.

Investors need to be aware of an industry?s maneuvers.

Alan Greenspan proved that a retired maestro can still seem to conduct the world?s financial orchestra.

No one buys bejeweled wheel rims or a platinum steering wheel because he wants to keep a low profile.

In ?Inside the House of Money,? the ruminations of supposedly hush-hush hedge fund operators are richly illuminating, and much less expensive than the fees they charge.

The public-radio personality talks about taking on another medium, why his program won?t be like ??60 Minutes?? and why he went to Showtime, even though he usually doesn?t watch it.

What?s one year and 335 days between brothers? At Alcoa, it is nothing.

Fees have hurt long-term performance, a study says.

The 3.3 percent decline in the Dow Jones industrial average last Tuesday could almost be called a blip when measured against the biggest plunges on record.

Investors will be looking for a quick recovery in the stock market this week, but such a rebound might do more harm than good over the long run, one analyst warns.

On Wall Street, stocks had their worst weekly performance since January 2003.

The owners of racetracks with video slot machines say smoking bans have not cut into their popularity or profitability.

Reuters - Licking their wounds after stiff losses, jittery investors will be looking for relief next week in the form of reassurance that the U.S. economy will keep growing at a moderate pace.