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Oil prices on Thursday hit levels not seen in more than three years and retail gasoline prices are now below $2 across nearly half of the country on dour economic reports suggesting a painful economic pullback. Benchmark crude fell as low as $49.50 a...

Oil prices slipped to $59 a barrel Wednesday as investors grappled with the prospect that global growth next year will slow more than originally feared, cutting demand for gasoline and other crude products. Expectations that a snapshot of the U.S....

Good morning. Here are a few Washington events of note for Wednesday, September 17. President Bush is meeting with Panamanian President Martin Torrijos. The Business Roundtable is speaking on American competitiveness, led by Chairman Harold McGraw III...

Q: What's up with Citigroup Inc.? I had expected more from this stock. -- R.R., via the Internet A: With its traditional umbrella symbol recently replaced by a red arc over "Citi" in advertisements, the international financial-services giant is seeking a...

Q: What are the prospects for my shares of Northrop Grumman Corp.? They've been great in the past. Can they keep going? --N.L., via the Internet A: The big defense contractor understandably wants as diversified a portfolio of military projects as...

Patricia and Pat Guadagno were terrified about the prospect of his ailing father going home. The 86-year-old widower had spent weeks in a hospital rehabilitation unit after breaking his hip in a fall. Mostly confined to a wheelchair, he seemed weak and...

Here's a sampling of what some employers provide in elder-care benefits: -- Consumer products-maker Unilever USA provides a "concierge" service that one employee used to arrange the repair of a parent's storm-damaged house in another state. -- McGraw-...

Monday: Earnings: A.O. Smith Corp.; American Express Co.; Compass Bancshares Inc.; CSX Corp.; Eaton Corp.; Packaging Corporation of America; Texas Instruments Inc.; Wintrust Financial Corp.; Woodward Governor Co. Tuesday: Earnings: Advanced Micro Devices...

When Mel Karmazin left as president of media giant Viacom Inc. last June, he walked away with more than $31 million. That package alone would have been enough money to make Karmazin one of the 10 highest-paid executives at publicly traded companies in...

WASHINGTON - The price of oil gyrated yesterday after the federal government released data that showed a growing domestic supply of gasoline and other fuels, along with rising demand. July light sweet crude futures fell 97 cents to settle at $53.63 a...

The gap left in the financial district by the destruction of the World Trade Center towers stands as a mute memorial to the war on terror. But amid changes wrought by conflict in the Middle East and a lackluster economy, Newsday's 2004 ranking of the...

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