The staying power of wind energy companies is dependent on tax benefits from the capricious hands of lawmakers in Congress.

A Congressional committee is examining claims that GlaxoSmithKline tried to suppress a doctor?s criticism of a diabetes drug.

Many doctors who were sanctioned by a medical board were later paid for research by drug makers.

Steven P. Jobs has succeeded in building expectations for what some have called ?the God machine.?

Rupert Murdoch made clear that he would not accept a sale proposal that would keep The Wall Street Journal out of his editorial control.

The stock market stumbled as Wall Street seemed to grasp that the Federal Reserve is in no hurry to lower interest rates.

The government moved to block a tax shelter aimed at converting billions of corporate profits into profits that will never be taxed.

Home sellers in Madison, Wis., did not get higher rates for their homes using real estate agents, a study claims.

John Edwards says Americans should care more about economic injustice. Can he turn the plight of the poor into a winning campaign issue?

BAE Systems is reported to be planning to set up an external ethics committee to look into its arms deals.

Reuters - General Electric Co. and Microsoft Corp. discussed joining forces for a competing bid for Dow Jones & Co. in recent weeks, but the idea was abandoned, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

The Onex Corporation, Canada?s largest investment firm, has joined the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board in its bid for Bell Canada, the country?s largest telephone company. Onex will bring additional capital to the bid and help ensure that the pension fund?s bid meets Canadian ownership requirements for telecommunications companies. Others in the bidding group include Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec, that province?s biggest pension fund. Bell, which changed its name from BCE last week, has formally recognized two other bidding groups, one led by the Ontario Teachers? Pension Plan, Bell?s largest stockholder with 6.3 percent of its shares, and the other led by Cerberus Capital Management working with unnamed Canadian investors.

The European Union is planning a public-private partnership to help its aviation industry develop greener and quieter aircraft.

A new study presents stark evidence that high medical payments do not buy high-quality patient care.

Delinquencies and foreclosures among homeowners with weak credit moved higher in the first quarter.

New Web sites have helped fuel the rampant mortgage fraud that has caused a huge spike in loan defaults.

The royal family of Qatar is considering a full takeover offer for supermarket J Sainsbury, a report says.

Bank of America will see if a new name, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management, can burnish its private bank?s reputation in catering to the very rich.

The high-performance computer system is intended to increase the speed and accuracy of decision making in fields as diverse as security surveillance and Wall Street trading.

The House panel that oversees subsidies to farmers voted to maintain the status quo by extending current policies for five years.

The choice among new S.L.R. cameras from Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Olympus and Sony comes down to price, features and your existing lens collection.

The Jones Apparel Group is near a deal to sell Barneys New York for about $825 million to an investment arm of the Dubai government.

The plan would keep him from controlling the content of The Wall Street Journal if the company accepts his $5 billion takeover offer.

AFP - Amid growing signs of a US economic rebound taking root, the Federal Reserve appears likely to hold interest rates steady again at its upcoming policy meeting, analysts say.

GLG Partners will go public in the United States through a $3.4 billion merger with an investment company, according to people briefed on the transaction.

A co-founder of Sun Microsystems plans to introduce a supercomputer that will compete for the title as world?s fastest.

A leading forecaster of advertising spending has again lowered his estimate for growth in the U.S. this year.

Roughly 900,000 tubes containing a poison have turned up in hospitals for the mentally ill, prisons, juvenile detention centers and even some hospitals.

EMI Music and Snocap will announce that Snocap will sell the label?s music in its MyStores, online shops that can be added to various sites on the Internet.

China promised to cooperate in tackling its food safety problems but urged a quick resolution.