Sprint Nextel will announce a deal to offer cellphone services with the nation's three largest cable television operators as early as Wednesday.

Microsoft is offering two new advertising-supported Web services, Windows Live and Office Live, as a direct response to competitors' challenges.

Johnson & Johnson threatened to abandon its $25.4 billion plan to acquire the Guidant Corporation, a troubled heart device maker.

Ben Bernanke has signaled a readiness to fight inflation with a different set of tools than the current Fed chairman, Alan Greenspan.

A global debate is raging about whether Tamiflu production can be ramped up, even if the maker, Roche, bows to pressure to license its production to other companies.

The US should reimburse Iraq up to $208m for work done by a US contractor, a UN watchdog says.

Yahoo and TiVo plan to announce a deal Monday that will connect Yahoo's vast online service to TiVo's set-top boxes.

Bonus season is approaching on Wall Street, and investment bankers, the financial experts who arrange mergers and acquisitions, are expected to be first in line.

By Bloomberg News.

In China, just about every form of commerce is thriving, including illegal ones like prostitution and counterfeiting. But not coffin making.

The U.S. trade deficit widened by a surprising 11 percent in September, reflecting a surge in energy imports after Hurricane Katrina and a drop in airplane exports.

DaimlerChrysler sold the last of its shares in the Mitsubishi Motors Corporation on Friday, effectively ending Jürgen E. Schrempp's grand scheme to create a global car company.

Reuters - U.S. stocks are poised for a rally next week as lower crude prices fuel investors' optimism that businesses and consumers will get a break from high energy costs and have more cash to spend this holiday season.

Growth in Japan's overseas investments is offsetting a narrowing trade gap, official figures show.

Chinese industrial production continues to grow strongly, so much so that some officials are now fearful of overcapacity.

Online casinos are signing endorsement deals with celebrities, but the stars could be putting themselves in legal jeopardy.

Insurance and support from the Pentagon may mean Northrop Grumman can rebuild after Hurricane Katrina without spending much of its own money.

The approach fundamentally recasts the traditional arm's-length relationship between a hospital and the doctors who practice there.

Here are five trends to keep an eye on during the holiday shopping season, which can be a contact sport for consumers and a test of survival or retailers.

Reuters - Dubai airline Emirates said on Sunday it had agreed to buy 42 777 planes from Boeing for $9.7 billion.

'American Idol' is the financial lifeblood of Fox's prime-time business, but the network has kept news about the series almost completely under wraps in the last several months.

With gas prices falling, the National Retail Federation yesterday raised its sales forecast for the holiday shopping season, a rare upward revision for the generally cautious trade group.

Some are wondering if the outlet-heavy Mills Corporation, a fast-growing real estate investment trust, is a victim of its success.

Five months into his term as chief executive of Morgan Stanley, John J. Mack is stepping up efforts to add new businesses.

Hong Kong's first property investment fund, which was nearly scuppered by a legal action from a pensioner, gains on first day of trading.

Millions of Americans mobbed stores in search of bargains offered by businesses hoping to ensure a respectable holiday season.

Scores of complaints have been filed about the tactics used by some insurers to market Medicare's new prescription drug benefit.

Merck, under pressure from investors and analysts to cut costs and pare thousands of employees from its payroll, said it would soon announce details of its restructuring plan.

Across rural America, people say they are frustrated with a loan program created by Congress to extend Internet service.

By The Associated Press.