Citigroup will introduce a new message in the company?s first global brand campaign since the it was formed nearly a decade ago.

Some maple syrup producers are using used vegetable oil to boil their sap, instead of heating oil, a fossil fuel that contributes to global warming.

Edward E. Whitacre Jr. will be succeeded by Randall L. Stephenson, the company?s chief operating officer.

Michael S. Dell is now thinking about changing the way the company markets its computers.

It?s important to understand the financial aid award letter, the opening salvo of negotiations for student aid.

Quellos Investments is being investigated over its design and sale of questionable tax shelters to wealthy investors.

It is not money, nor sex that causes the bitterest disputes between couples, but how early you really need to get to the airport.

The banks, led by Royal Bank of Scotland, said they would make a bid worth more than an earlier offer from Barclays for $87 billion.

Bruce D. Hertzke, chairman and chief executive of Winnebago Industries, spoke about high gas prices and about how some people save the fancy trimmings for their R.V. instead of their house.

Any change in market conditions would vary the size of Intel?s profit, but for A.M.D., it can mean the difference between a big profit and a big loss.

Only half of the stocks in the Dow are higher than in 2000, while the number of rising stocks in the S.& P. is triple the number of losers.

The association will pay $128 million to settle lawsuits brought by doctors who said that they had been underpaid on insurance claims.

Google?s $3.1 billion deal for the online advertising firm DoubleClick could put the company at odds with itself.

Extended Stay Hotels recently announced it planned to keep its smokers welcome policies in place.

Blue chip stocks surged all week as many big companies reported better-than-expected results, though mixed economic data might quiet the enthusiasm next week.

Prosecutors portrayed the former audit committee member as a talented economist who had been duped.

Martin A. Armstrong, a financial adviser, will begin serving a five-year sentence for conspiracy to commit fraud.

Rick Wagoner?s compensation nearly doubled even though he voluntarily reduced his salary to aid the automaker?s restructuring effort.

Investors tried to reconcile a weaker-than-expected estimate of first-quarter economic growth with fresh evidence that corporate profits remain robust.

Reuters - Royal Bank of Scotland , which has threatened to launch a hostile bid together with two other banks for ABN AMRO , is in talks with ABN to buy its U.S. unit LaSalle, a lawyer for ABN said on Saturday.

Reuters - U.S. Treasury Deputy Secretary Robert Kimmitt said he would not comment on the weakness of the U.S. dollar on Saturday after the currency slid to a record low against the euro on Friday.

Reuters - European planemaker Airbus has set out details of job reductions under its Power8 restructuring plan, including 4,100 job cuts in France, French newspaper Le Monde reported on Saturday.

Reuters - A Dutch court will rule on May 3 about ABN AMRO's sale of U.S. unit LaSalle to Bank of America in a decision that could derail a proposed 65 billion euro ($88.5 billion) merger between ABN and Barclays.

The story of how a luxury golf resort came to a desperately poor nation is part of a larger tale in which American deal makers played leading roles.

A Silicon Valley startup hopes to turn America?s televisions into limitless multiplexes, changing the landscape of the home entertainment business.

Since 2003, a Salt Lake City investment fund has successfully agitated for change at a half-dozen closed-end funds.

The N.B.A.?s 450 players, arguably the most gifted group of athletes in any professional sport, are probably the most closely scrutinized employees in the world.

Immigrants and refugees can receive a leg up through a pre-interview training program supported by Whole Foods Market and a social services group.

Once a benefit offered primarily with credit and charge cards that have significant annual fees, concierge services have trickled down to a wider range of cardholders.

Strategists say that many signs, like erratic dividend histories or a high payout ratio, may indicate that a stock?s dividends are on shaky ground.

If they?re not willing to switch funds often, fund investors should simply buy and hold an index fund for the long term, according to a new study.

Despite a number of challenges, Sony has outperformed the Walt Disney Company, Time Warner and Comcast over the past two years.

Be sure of your goals. And remember that your former employees may now want to hire you.

Studies suggest that America?s diversity goes a long way toward explaining why government spending on social welfare programs is much lower than in Europe.

In 1994, the Supreme Court basically said that there would be no liability for players who ?merely? aided and abetted securities fraud.

The rush to go on a carbon diet, even if by proxy, is in overdrive.

As concerns mount about global warming and oil prices, so, too, has interest in more sustainable construction.

Lugging along a digital projector is less of a chore these days, with compact, portable models weighting less than a phone book.

?I was a good student, but what I really liked to do was organize a group of people to do something,? said Lois Quam, president of public and senior markets groups for United HealthCare.

Americans seeking out the opaque green liqueur beloved by Oscar Wilde and his creative contemporaries now have a less dodgy option.

As the Dow Jones industrial average passes 13,000, traders are anticipating slower job growth for the month of April.

Rather than allowing development to overwhelm Jasper County, S.C., officials have collaborated on a plan to guide building and preserve natural beauty.

Oleg V. Deripaska, the second-richest man in Russia, is making ever-bolder forays outside that country.

Consumer confidence is all about perception, but it?s a perception that has a powerful effect on reality.

The Dow Jones industrial average broke through the 13,000 barrier for the first time on Wednesday and kept going. By the close of trading on Friday, it had reached 13,120.94, a new record.

An article last Sunday about investing in bonds referred imprecisely to the Federal Reserve?s cutting of interest rates early in this decade. The Fed began cutting rates in early 2001 and finished in mid-2003; it did not start the cuts in early 2003.

Reuters - A Dutch court is deliberating whether ABN AMRO can go ahead with the sale of U.S. unit LaSalle to Bank of America, with a decision due next week that could derail a proposed 65 billion euro ($88.5 billion) merger between ABN and Barclays .

The creation of online pornography is becoming more acceptable, more rarefied and more challenging financially. That?s enough to turn on Peter Acworth.

Mark Twain?s 19th-century sprite is being name-checked a lot lately as a handy way to describe the Internet vogue du jour: exploiting free labor and content online.

A new product gets a lot of attention ? mostly from vehement critics.