Machinists union members ratified a new contract with The Boeing Co., ending an eight-week strike that cut the airplane maker?s profits and stalled jetliner deliveries.

Members of the machinists union ended a strike that cut the Boeing Company?s profits and stalled airplane production.

A European financial services company could make a bid for Halifax Bank of Scotland, BBC Scotland learns.

Gordon Brown will urge wealthy oil states in the Gulf to invest more money in Britain as a way of creating and securing jobs.

The rescue deal for Alitalia must not breach European Union competition rules, the airliner's bankruptcy official warns.

Gordon Brown says he is hopeful wealthy oil states will give extra financial support to help countries at risk in the current crisis.

Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy stresses there is still only one bid to takeover HBOS, despite claims of an alternative offer.

Opec countries must implement agreed production cuts if they want stable oil prices, warns the cartel's president.

Workers at the US aircraft maker Boeing vote to end their strike and to return to work this weekend.

Reuters - Evidence of a weakening economy and further global efforts to avert recession dominate financial markets this week, so much so that the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday is almost taking a back seat.

Reuters - Lloyds TSB , the British bank which has agreed to take over HBOS , could face competition from the founder of HBOS's internet banking unit who is working on a rival bid, Britain's Sunday Times newspaper reported.

Leaders around the world spent another weekend trying to extinguish the brush fires of the economic crisis.

Goal Financial, which offered iPods, spa gift cards and other items to lure borrowers, will adopt a marketing code of conduct and pay $350,000 to a financial aid fund.

Can consumers tell the difference between a five-megapixel photo and a humble one-megapixel shot?

Officials were reluctant to broaden the $700 billion rescue program to include industrial companies or to play a part in a merger that could cost thousands of jobs.

There is a long tradition of market watchers seeking connections between two of America?s favorite pastimes: picking presidents and picking stocks.

The trade publication American Banker unveiled its Banker of the Year award last week: It went to Kenneth D. Lewis, chief of Bank of America.

After decades of decline, commercial shipping has returned to the Erie Canal as high fuel prices have made barges an attractive alternative to trucks.

As painful as job cuts may be, particularly in New York and London, this shrinkage may mark a welcome reversal of a long-running trend.

As central as The News Sentinel may be to the local Knoxville community, it is not attracting local advertisers to its Web site.

With an increasing number of people using the Internet for news, sites like Yahoo are treating election night as a prime programming occasion.

While the experience of covering a presidential campaign is invaluable, journalists? opportunities are few after the election.

Even before the crisis on Wall Street, little appetite for growth in military spending was anticipated, at a time when the Pentagon?s annual base budget has reached $500 billion.

The high cost of fuel, along with traffic and airport congestion, is drawing travelers back to trains for commuting and for travel between cities as much as 500 miles apart.

The producers of the reality TV series ?Wall Street Warriors? find themselves in a case of life imitating life.

Last week, Canada?s Frank magazine, which once took unvarnished delight in the failings of others, stopped publishing.

Economic events for the week of Nov. 3, 2008.

Reuters - South Korea unveiled on Monday an economic stimulus package worth at least 14 trillion won ($10.98 billion) to help assure a soft landing in Asia's fourth-largest economy in the face of a looming global recession.

Reuters - Stephen Girsky, a veteran auto-industry analyst and private equity executive, is working with the United Auto Workers union with regards to any potential General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC deal, a source familiar with the situation said on Sunday.

Analysts expect a broad array of companies backed by private equity to face even more pressure as profits shrivel and creditors come knocking.

On the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, brokers have to bear the burden of having come to personify Wall St. ? an all-encompassing name for the stock market, the economy, your 401(k).

After decades of decline, commercial shipping has returned to the Erie Canal as high fuel prices have made barges an attractive alternative to trucks.

Not since John F. Kennedy?s win in 1960 has changing technology had such an impact on the political campaigns and the organizations covering them.

Sumner M. Redstone?s forced sale of more than $200 million in stock is the latest twist in a tumultuous decade for the Viacom chairman.

When did CBS, the network awash in cop shows featuring leading men in their 50s, become the hot network with young audiences?

The strike cost an estimated $100 million a day in deferred revenue and production delays on the company?s highly anticipated next-generation passenger jet.

This holiday season, retailers may have no choice but to resort to aggressive pricing to draw more people into the stores.

A censorship battle has reignited over a 2006 Weird Al Yankovic song about file-sharing.