If you?ve ever seen a new storefront and secretly hoped for, say, a new cafe, you might know the sinking feeling when the business turns out to be a bank.

Reuters - An Indonesian court is due to give a verdict on Tuesday in a pollution trial involving Newmont Mining Corp . that is seen as a test of attitudes toward foreign firms and environmental protection.

Barclays is expected to place a bid for ABN Amro on Monday at 36 euros a share, but RBS may still make an offer.

Reuters - As the Dow industrials approach 13,000 for the first time, investors will keep a close eye on the heavy flow of quarterly earnings while new data on consumer sentiment and the pace of the U.S. economy stream this week.

Reuters - The average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States rose more than 8 cents over the past two weeks, an analyst said on Sunday, but price declines at wholesale and in some Midwestern cities may herald an easing of pain at the pump for drivers this summer.

Reuters - If Bank of America pulls off a deal to buy Chicago-based retail bank LaSalle, it will fill in one of the last remaining gaps in nationwide coverage for the second-largest U.S. bank.

Reuters - Barclays Plc is likely to unveil an agreed upon deal to take over Dutch bank ABN AMRO as early as Monday, sources familiar with the situation said, just as Royal Bank of Scotland moves to simplify a possible counter offer.

The Dutch bank was near a deal to be acquired by Barclays for $80 billion, in what would be one of the largest European banking deals ever.

PC video game titles, once the mainstay of video gaming, are showing signs of a comeback.

Warren E. Buffett?s successor will probably be a lot like Louis Simpson, who has overseen the investment portfolio of Geico.

At The Philadelphia Inquirer, a joint venture with an advertiser that in other times might have raised questions, is being rethought.

An obscure financing technique called ?special purpose acquisition corporations,? or SPACs, are increasingly being used an alternative to private equity.

Rich Little was hired for this year?s White House Correspondents? dinner to help the audience forget last year when Stephen Colbert opened both barrels on all parties.

Reports in both newspapers said job cuts were imminent and would be carried out mostly through voluntary buyout packages.

The populist Internet encyclopedia was a go-to site for news about the Virginia Tech shootings.

A system problem at Intuit meant that some taxpayers could not submit their returns on time.

Several start-up companies are pursuing the idea of advertising-supported music on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks.

A prominent Columbia University cardiologist has been censured for breaking an embargo on the results of a major heart study.

The highlights, lowlights and sidelights of the 2007 management conference of the American Association of Advertising Agencies.

Online publishers are increasing their offerings of ?green? content, hoping to attract more readers and advertising revenue.

The Santa Barbara News-Press published a story suggesting that the paper?s former editor had kept child pornography on his work computer.

USA Today said that it would begin using articles produced by the new-media start-up, The Politico.

The private-equity consortium that is struggling to complete a takeover of Qantas Airways said that its bid would not be extended beyond May 4.

Last week two rival business magazines ? Fortune and Portfolio ? saw their names bump up against each other a bit.

Morgan Stanley said that Stephen S. Roach, the bank?s chief economist, would become the chairman of its Asia operations.

Fans of digital radio are seeking to supplement, not replace, traditional radio.

Reuters - Britain's Barclays Plc is expected to unveil a deal to take over Dutch bank ABN AMRO on Monday, including plans to sell ABN's U.S. retail bank LaSalle to Bank of America , sources familiar with the situation said.

Reuters - Private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Carlyle Group have joined the race for the text book publishing unit of Canada's Thomson Corp. , the Times reported on Monday.