The People?s Bank of China hopes the increase will control a surge in bank lending and investment and prevent consumer prices from rising.

Hundreds of thousands of families who bought houses in the last two years are being expelled into rental housing.

Reuters - The anxiety level on Wall Street may escalate next week with several indicators due on the housing sector and a Federal Reserve meeting that most agree will end with no change in short-term interest rates.

Rather than rely entirely on weary front-line workers, many airlines are institutionalizing the apology.

The new wariness of collectors to buy or exhibit works that do not have the most rigorously documented history jeopardizes the business of even the most established dealers.

Ina Garten has created a culinary empire that has been slow to spread roots but quick to grow in recent years.

Some companies will now encase both a computer and its peripherals in a back-to-the-future covering of a different sort: warm, glowing wood.

The gap between what the Internet promises and what it delivers is part of the reason that people continue to turn to enhancers from caffeine to maca to virtual reality.

It is worth reflecting that had Conrad M. Black not coveted the profile that The Sun-Times was intended to help give him, he would not be in the pickle he is in.

A growing number of abandoned jails are being converted to hotels.

Houston residents, eager for a second home and flush with cash from the oil boom, have made Galveston Island an emerging Lone Star equivalent of the Hamptons.

Many donors are trying to get greater meaning from their money.

There is an easy way to get a shot at commodity-like returns, without investing directly in commodities or their indexes.

At times, Ms. Orman sounds more like a Lawrence H. Summers than a Gloria Steinem in her latest book, ?Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny.?

Even dead cats bounce, as the idiom goes, and the stocks of subprime lenders did just that last week

The Rakku, a rotating shoe rack that resembles a hamster wheel, can hold 30 pairs of shoes.

A safety net for lost pay, or a ticket to poor jobs?

After years of discounts, stores offer something new: an experience.

Sales of eye-catching ?low performance? athletic shoes rose 4.4 percent in 2006.

As money has become increasingly scarce, the enhancement system, in which a commercial producer pays money to a nonprofit theater to help subsidize a production, is all but essential.

If investors focused only on the broad stock market averages, they might conclude that the entire market is undervalued.

A Maryland court ordered Daniel M. Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins, to compensate a former nanny for overtime hours she had worked.

Investors are worried about economic conditions, and Federal Reserve policy makers may use their meeting this week to convey the same concern.

The Support Center for Nonprofit Management is part of a growing auxiliary to nonprofits that are defined as benefiting, or speaking for, the public interest.

?My life is like a quilt rather than a blanket. I need to collect experiences.?

Meet one on one to discuss your concerns, but be careful not to take on an accusatory tone.

Reuters - Joining a rising corporate chorus itching to sink money into clean energy projects, big investors will press the U.S. Congress on Monday to pass laws attempting to tackle global warming.

It was another rough week on Wall Street and it ended with a thud.

Reuters - The anxiety level on Wall Street may escalate next week with several indicators due on the housing sector and a Federal Reserve meeting that most agree will end with no change in short-term interest rates.