With golden parachutes and glitzy homes, executives of crisis have few gripes.

Russia's primary stock indexes plummeted, with banking stocks leading the way.

Apparel and accessories retailer Urban Outfitters Inc., operator of the Anthropologie, Free People and Urban Outfitters brands, said Thursday that second-quarter earnings fell 16 percent due to higher fixed store occupancy costs related to lower same-store sales and additional markdowns.

Retailers' sales rose 0.6 percent last month and gasoline stations turned in their biggest jump in sales since May.

Employees on business trips are increasingly responsive to management?s call to cut travel costs.

Disney plans to sell a line of products called Disney Garden.

Online encyclopedia to move cross-country in January to hub of tech world.

?The auto industry supports one of every 10 jobs in the United States,? Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm has said multiple times in her pleas for a bailout of the Detroit Three. Is it true?

Salespeople sometimes sneak credit life insurance in for a big purchase.

Washington confronts a choice: bailout or bankruptcy for car companies.

Fears of widespread economic fallout forced govt. to step in with $85B loan.

Japan slides into recession after 2nd straight GDP drop.

Construction dropped 6.2 percent last month, the slowest pace since 1991.

AFP - Global stock markets slumped Monday as the bad news on the financial crisis got worse, with Japan, the world's second largest economy, in recession and US banking giant Citigroup cutting 50,000 jobs.

Rumors abound the troubled bank will sell itself after losing $5B in deposits.

Tesla Motors didn't just set out to build an electric car. It set out to teach Detroit a lesson. Back in 2003, when these guys from Silicon Valley were launching their company, they didn't apologize for knowing next to nothing about the automotive industry. In fact, they took pride in this. They...

Reuters - Kansas City Federal Reserve President Thomas Hoenig said on Monday the U.S. central bank has done what it can to buffer the economy through a downturn, and a painful process of readjustment is likely ahead.

The decision to close Play, which was first published in February 2006, marks another in a long list of contractions in the newspaper and magazine industries.

As America?s newspapers shrink, a new kind of Web-based news operation has arisen in several cities, forcing the papers to follow the stories they uncover.

AP - Precious metals and agriculture futures advanced Friday, getting a boost from a short-lived afternoon rally on Wall Street and the potential for an additional interest rate cut. Energy prices, meanwhile, slumped due to ongoing concerns over demand.