China's President Hu Jintao warns of the effects of the global financial crisis on his country, as economic growth slows.

Germany's Commerzbank agrees to accelerate its purchase of Dresdner Bank from insurer Allianz in a deal worth 9.8bn euros.

The financial crisis stormed the gilded gates of Montana?s Yellowstone Club, a mountain retreat for the super-rich, when it filed for bankruptcy protection this month.

Reuters - BHP Billiton Chief Executive Marius Kloppers will likely use the same pragmatic resolve to grapple with a collapse in metals markets that he did in ditching a mega takeover of mining rival Rio Tinto .

A last-ditch attempt to block the planned Lloyds TSB takeover of Halifax Bank of Scotland is launched.

Dragons' Den entrepreneur Theo Paphitis is among potential bidders for collapsed High Street chain Woolworths, reports say.

Government help will probably come too late for dealers whose sales are dropping along with consumer confidence.

The financial crisis stormed the gilded gates of Montana?s Yellowstone Club, a mountain retreat for the super-rich, when it filed for bankruptcy protection this month.

The US holiday shopping season gets off to an encouraging start, with sales on the day after Thanksgiving up 3% on last year.

Reuters - Deloitte LLP, the administrator of the retail and distribution businesses of British retailer Woolworths Group Plc , has received dozens of inquiries from companies and individuals for parts of the business, according to newspaper reports on Sunday.

Reuters - If markets are forward looking, investors might find themselves tempted to buy stocks and other risky assets just as major economies, most of them already in recession, deteriorate further.

Reuters - Wall Street may struggle this week to build on its best weekly performance in almost 30 years as investors grapple with a raft of economic data, including the November jobs report, that will likely provide more evidence of a deep economic downturn.

Reuters - As recession extends its tentacles across the globe, it is getting hard just to track the hundreds of billions of dollars governments are throwing or promising to throw at the problem.

With demand plunging, members of the oil cartel are struggling to maintain unity.

With Facebook Connect, users can log onto a variety of sites and see their friends? activities there.

Industry experts say these smartphones however will have trouble getting onto the list of this season?s must-have gadgets due to the economic climate.

To create jobs, Barack Obama must reverse the economy?s implosion, not just stop it.

President Hu Jintao warned that China could lose its competitive edge as trade growth slows amid the global financial crisis.

With its wire service, CNN is taking aim at The Associated Press, the largest news-gathering outlet in the world.

A seasonal wrap-up of thoughts on an advertising columnist?s mind.

Canadian Internet users are far more likely than Americans to use a social networking Web site, according to a new report.

British politicians are actively considering joining the eurozone, says European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso.

Reuters - The board of General Motors Corp met on Sunday to review a restructuring plan intended to cut costs and win support for up to $12 billion in emergency funding from the U.S. government, a person familiar with the deliberations said.

Reuters - The prospects of Swiss drugmaker Roche raising a $45 billion syndicated loan to finance the buyout of the rest of U.S. biotech group Genentech are becoming increasingly remote.

Cost-cutting at many local stations includes the big salaries commanded by news anchors.

After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the White House wanted major media companies to help improve the U.S. image abroad. That hasn?t panned out.

The agency will release a report that summarizes what officials call a ?hugely ambitious? campaign to reshape its food inspection arm.

Time Style & Design, a new magazine from Time, focuses on expensive goods even as consumer buying wanes.

In raising money and investing it with a nonprofit lending institution, the Meadows School in Las Vegas is by all accounts the first high school to operate a microbank.

Michael Wolff has written a supercilious yet star-struck portrait of Rupert Murdoch, the planet?s most notorious press baron.

The special Abraham Lincoln issue of American Heritage magazine displays an ad for a Civil War ring emblazoned with the Confederate Flag.

The United States and Europe will issue record levels of i.o.u.?s as governments finance deficits and rescues.

Whether NBC?s ?Lipstick Jungle? returns later this season or next season will largely depend on whether it increases its overall audience, and not just among those watching on a delayed basis.

?Four Christmases,? a holiday comedy starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon, led the box office on a solid post-Thanksgiving weekend.

Ms. Dungey wrote under the pseudonym Tanta for Calculated Risk, the finance and economics blog.

When assessing blame for the trampling death of a salesclerk, the news media should include themselves.

The discounts that drove shoppers to stores were so steep that many ailing chains may be no better off in the long run.

The Detroit automakers will have diverging agendas this week as they take their second run at Congress for federal aid.

If Detroit is to win a bailout this week, the United Automobile Workers may have to agree to big cost cuts.