Reuters - Five U.S. oil company executives set
to testify on Capitol Hill on Tuesday about soaring gasoline
prices and record industry profits will likely offer a common
defense: It’s not our fault.
Reuters - U.S. stocks gained on Monday as a
report showing stronger-than-expected Midwestern business
activity helped the economic outlook and a plan to overhaul the
regulation of U.S. financial markets boosted bank shares.
Reuters - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson
revealed sweeping plans on Monday for streamlining a hodgepodge
of regulations that are blamed for allowing the U.S. mortgage
crisis to balloon into a full-blown economic threat.
Reuters - Stocks added to gains on Monday,
driving the Nasdaq up more than 1 percent, as a report showing
stronger-than-expected Midwestern business activity helped the
economic outlook.
AP - Steadily rising food costs aren’t just causing grocery shoppers to do a double-take at the checkout line ? they’re also changing the very ways we feed our families.
Reuters - The housing secretary announced his
resignation on Monday amid investigations into his role in
government contracts, creating a vacuum at an agency seen as a
vehicle for addressing the housing crisis.