Weekly wages for rank-and-file workers fell because companies reduced the average length of the workweek.

Bernard Ebbers, the former WorldCom chief executive, displayed an innocence in court that was part of a defense effort to cast him as someone who relied on others.

Ted Koppel, who provided a hard-news alternative as host of 'Nightline,' will leave ABC when his contract expires.

Hundreds of communities have been waging fights against cellphone companies and the march of antennas into suburbia.

The Supreme Court's reversal of Arthur Andersen's conviction in the Enron case caused rumblings that the firm should never have been indicted. Not so fast.

MBNA executives reconstructed the behind-the-scenes maneuvers that led to the $35 billion deal with Bank of America.

Briefly buoyed by their Supreme Court victory on file sharing, Hollywood and the recording industry are on the verge of confronting more technically sophisticated opponents.

Gasoline prices surged well above $3 a gallon in some parts of the nation in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Within hours of a ceremonial groundbreaking in Chicago, a federal court granted critics of the expansion a stay temporarily halting the federal approval.

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

A day after Carl C. Icahn teamed up with Lazard to wage a shareholder war against Time Warner, Robert C. Clark may have found himself in the cross-fire.

Russian gas supplies to Ukraine are cut off after last-ditch talks fail to settle a price dispute.

ABC News plans for Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson to fill in on 'World News Tonight' while Bob Woodruff recovers from injuries suffered in Iraq.

A former Enron executive testifies that it was 'standard procedure' for the firm to try and hide its losses.

Microsoft left an antitrust hearing in Brussels claiming it had reached a breakthrough, but regulators and rivals dismissed the claim as an exaggeration.

Google says Microsoft is unfairly grabbing Web traffic by making its MSN search engine the default in its browser.

Shares in the Bank of China climb by more than 14% during their first day of trading in Hong Kong.

Increasingly, investors want their hometown dailies free of absentee corporate owners.

The caricature of the sassy overweight black woman is troublesome to some marketers and media scholars.

Baby boomers may be known as the generation that took it all, leaving their successors to take on the risks they did not have to accept for themselves.

New laws outlawing ageism at work have come into effect throughout the UK.

CVS is said to be in talks to buy Caremark, the biggest pharmacy benefits manager, for more than $21 billion.

For the second time in about a week the investor sold shares, this time at a loss, cutting his stake in half.

A second, more graphic video of Saddam Hussein?s execution left TV news executives to make ?delicate editorial decisions? about what to air.

A consortium of investors led by Vornado Realty Trust planned to raise its bid for Equity Office Properties Group to more than $40 billion.

Stocks rose modestly Wednesday but concerns over Wall Street?s bet on subprime loans have not gone away.

Russia bans all foreigners from working as retailers in its shops and markets under a new law.

The move would end a ban on drilling in environmentally sensitive areas along the coasts of Alaska and Virginia.

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

The bid from a pension fund and private equity firm would be among the largest leveraged buyouts ever.

Rupert Murdoch has enough support from the Bancroft family for his News Corporation to buy the publisher of The Wall Street Journal.

Ben S. Bernanke said that the central bank ?stands ready to take additional actions as needed? to limit the effect of the financial market disorder on the economy.

The improvements come in part from improved equipment and from efforts by airlines to identify and fix small problems that are common precursors to accidents.

The departures of E. Stanley O?Neal and Richard D. Parsons have started a debate over whether they broke down barriers for younger black executives who seek the corner office.

Consumer groups are rushing to create systems that aim to make sense of conflicting health claims on food labels.

Some business travel problems are solved by hiring special services; others by not submitting to a no.

Shares in China Coal rise on their Shanghai debut but disappoint investors used to bigger gains.

The Standard and Poor?s 500-stock index and the Dow Jones industrial average capped their worst four months since 2002.

UBS AG wrote down an additional $19 billion on assets, causing a net loss of $12.03 billion in the first quarter, and said it would seek new capital.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company, the giant buyout firm, plans to announce a new partnership with the Environmental Defense Fund.

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In the second quarter, 50 merger and acquisition deals of venture-backed companies were completed. That?s down from 70 in the first quarter.

Record earnings for Exxon, the world?s largest publicly traded oil company, have become routine as the surge of oil prices in recent years has filled its coffers.

Agriprocessors, a kosher meat producer, is trying to persuade the Supreme Court to rule that illegal immigrants do not have the right to join labor unions.

A closely watched index shows home prices tumbled by a record 16.3 percent in July, but also found that the rate of decline is slowing.

Consumer cutbacks could lead to falling prices, suffocating investment and worsening joblessness for months.