The Screen Actors Guild inched closer to a strike after two days of talks with an alliance of Hollywood studios apparently broke down.

A VAT cut could form the centrepiece of the pre-Budget report on Monday, according to widespread speculation.

The Royal Bank of Scotland is to guarantee overdraft rates and contracts for its business customers for at least a year.

Talks continue between struggling High Street chain Woolworths and its banks in the hope of avoiding administration.

The government is expected to cut VAT by 2.5% as part of an emergency package aimed at kick-starting the economy.

Banks will have to meet an agreed code of behaviour that would affect how they treat small businesses, in light of the recent finance crisis, says Business Secretary Lord Mandelson.

A senior aide to Barack Obama confirms that New York banking chief Timothy Geithner will be named treasury secretary.

Cuts in finance jobs in Singapore is set to hit service firms

Lord Mandelson pledges action over the 'alarming' treatment of small businesses by some bank managers.

Much of the damage inflicted on Citigroup was caused by errant, high-octane trading and lax oversight, critics say.

Citigroup is in emergency talks with the US Treasury to gain extra funding amid uncertainty over its future, reports say.

International nuclear firms land huge UK contract

Reuters - Many financial assets across the world are looking cheap after the market ructions of the past year but investors in general have yet to rediscover the impulse to buy.

Barclays is set to face a vote from shareholders on Monday over its controversial £7bn capital raising plan.

The state, long entrenched in recession, is being hit hard by the economic crisis. Not even its lake resort towns are being spared.

Saudi Arabia cuts a key interest rate to boost the economy, while stocks drop to a five-year low.

Reuters - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama may consider delaying a campaign promise to roll back tax cuts on high-income Americans as he works on a huge stimulus plan to counter the worst economic crisis the world has faced in decades.

Reuters - From the 200 jobs cut at Air New Zealand to the 52,000 heading out the door at Citigroup, unemployment is on the rise around the world, straining government efforts to corral the credit crisis.

Federal regulators were considering a new rescue for Citigroup on Sunday, a step that could mark a third leg of the government?s broader efforts to bolster the nation?s financial industry.

The British government is expected on Monday to announce a cut in the sales tax as part of a package of measures to stimulate the economy.

Asia-Pacific leaders say they expect the global downturn to end during 2010, at the end of George W Bush's final summit.

Federal regulators were considering a new rescue for Citigroup on Sunday, a step that could mark a third leg of the government?s broader efforts to bolster the nation?s financial industry.

Detroit?s largest automakers owe more than $100 billion, and Wall Street is wondering how much will be paid back.

The studies were issued as President-elect Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats take aim at the plans and consider cutting the payments they receive.

The foreign correspondent will host a nightly program on CNN International, which is retooling its lineup.

Merchandise commemorating, celebrating and ? in some instances ? practically canonizing Mr. Obama is being sold by companies large and small.

The Kaiser Family Foundation is seeking to fill a niche left by the decline of the traditional news media.

Some of the mega-buyouts that private equity shops labored to assemble during the go-go years of the credit boom are coming apart at the seams.

Some call it Big Brother, but who can resist? It?s just so darn useful.

A senior aide to Barack Obama confirms that New York banking chief Timothy Geithner will be named treasury secretary.

Reuters - President-elect Barack Obama may consider delaying a campaign promise to roll back tax cuts on high-income Americans as he works on a huge stimulus plan to counter the worst economic crisis the world has faced in decades.

The drop-off in advertising spending by luxury brands means more bad news for magazines and newspapers in the United States.

With Detroit on the brink of disaster, William C. Ford Jr. could play a critical role in how the Obama administration decides to assist the auto industry.

Mr. Ito?s innovative models of random motion are used today in fields as diverse as finance and biology.

Reporting on what cannot be reported is something in which the British have much more experience.

It?s a long way from $700 billion, but the media start-up Six Apart is introducing its own economic bailout plan for bloggers and journalists.

A handful of new Web sites are out to help shoppers save money by searching eBay for misspelled brand names.

It should be simple to unsubscribe from a company?s e-mail list, but often that process goes awry.

Mr. Gish shined a spotlight on corruption and environmental degradation in southeastern Kentucky as an award-winning publisher of The Mountain Eagle of Whitesburg.

?Twilight? took a giant bite out of the North American box office over the weekend, selling an estimated $70.6 million in tickets.

Regulators were considering a new rescue for Citigroup, which could mark a third leg of the government?s effort to bolster the financial industry.

The question, as a new week begins, is whether this plan will produce lasting effects not only for Citigroup but also for the broader stock market.

William C. Ford Jr. could play a critical role in how the Obama administration decides to assist the auto industry.

Barack Obama?s choices for economic advisers are past protégés of former Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin, but they are setting aside some old orthodoxies.

The foreign correspondent will host a nightly program on CNN International, which is retooling its lineup.

Though run as a small business, Super Micro is a thriving business that sells about $600 million a year of servers to the likes of eBay and Yahoo.

Decades after working as braceros, the guest farm workers can now collect a one-time payment of overdue withheld wages from the Mexican government.

Some of the mega-buyouts that private equity shops labored to assemble during the go-go years of the credit boom are coming apart at the seams.

US President-elect Barack Obama is reportedly set to unveil his economic team later on Monday.

Reuters - President-elect Barack Obama is consider delaying a campaign promise to roll back tax cuts on high-income Americans and Washington is mulling further support for Citigroup Inc in the latest efforts to contain the worst global economic crisis in 80 years.