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• GM Option in UAW Talks Excludes Health Trust: WSJ Tuesday, 11 Sep 2007 | 12:37 AM ET

  General Motors in its contract negotiations with the United Auto Workers union has proposed one option that excludes establishing a union-run healthcare trust but calls for deeper cuts in several areas, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition.

• Weyerhaeuser Says Market Weak, May Close Plants Monday, 10 Sep 2007 | 7:55 AM ET

  Weyerhaeuser, one of the world's largest paper and lumber companies, said Monday that it would probably have to close plants and restrict operations because of weak market conditions.

• FDA Warns on Boston Scientific Aortic Stent Trial Monday, 10 Sep 2007 | 6:40 AM ET

  U.S. health regulators charged Boston Scientific with inadequate record-keeping and reporting following the deaths of five patients implanted with an experimental device to treat a dangerous ballooning of the body's main artery.

• General Mills Sees Earnings Topping Wall Street Forecasts Thursday, 6 Sep 2007 | 1:18 PM ET

  General Mills Thursday forecast better-than-expected first-quarter earnings and sales, helped by a 5 percent gain in its "Big G" cereals, which include Cheerios, Wheaties and Lucky Charms.

• Medtronic to Slash Jobs Amid Slowdown in Key Market Thursday, 6 Sep 2007 | 11:38 AM ET

  Medical device maker Medtronic, feeling the pinch of a slowdown in one of its key markets, will eliminate about 900 jobs through early retirement packages, voluntary and involuntary separations, the company said in a filing.

• Ace Hardware Finds $154 Million Accounting Shortfall Thursday, 6 Sep 2007 | 6:55 AM ET

  Ace Hardware discovered an approximately $154 million shortfall on its books while preparing to convert from retailer-owned cooperative to for-profit corporation and likely will have to restate its financial results for the last five years, President and CEO Ray Griffith said Wednesday.

• Big Investors Bullish Despite Recession Fears: Survey Tuesday, 4 Sep 2007 | 11:37 AM ET

  Institutional investors still expect stocks to rise by between 5 percent and 10 percent by year end even as fears of a recession grow more prominent, according to a Citigroup client survey.

• Thornburg Raises $500 Million in Stock Offering Thursday, 30 Aug 2007 | 11:57 AM ET

  Thornburg Mortgage, hurt recently by a credit squeeze, said on Thursday it raised $500 million in an offering of convertible preferred stock.

• Warren Buffett Boosts Stake in Rail Company Tuesday, 28 Aug 2007 | 10:29 AM ET

  

  Warren Buffett's company has bought 10.1 million shares of Burlington Northern Santa Fe since Thursday, increasing the legendary investor's stake in the nation's No. 2 railroad to nearly 14.8%.

• Ohio Sues Marsh & McLennan, AIG, Other Insurers Tuesday, 28 Aug 2007 | 6:16 AM ET

  The state of Ohio has filed an anti-trust lawsuit accusing Marsh & McLennan, AIG and three other insurers and their subsidiaries of price fixing and other anti-competitive behavior, Attorney General Marc Dann said on Monday.

• Home Depot Cuts Price of Supply Unit; Shares Up Monday, 27 Aug 2007 | 4:35 PM ET

  

  Shares of Home Depot rose as much as 2 percent Monday after sources said the home improvement retailer agreed to cut the price in the sale of its supply unit by $1.8 billion to $8.5 billion.

• Crocs Shares Rise on Clothing Plan Monday, 27 Aug 2007 | 10:16 AM ET

  

  Crocs  said Monday it will launch a line of clothing using a form of the resin material it uses in its brightly colored clogs, sending the shoe company's shares up 3 percent.

• Home Depot to Cut Unit Sale Price by $1.8 Billion Monday, 27 Aug 2007 | 7:50 AM ET

  

  Home Depot agreed to cut the price in its supply division sale to buyout firms by $1.8 billion, sources said on Sunday, as a housing market drop and a credit crunch forced all sides to renegotiate.

• Home Depot Shares Up on Hopes of Supply Unit Sale Friday, 24 Aug 2007 | 2:35 PM ET

  

  Shares of Home Depot were up 1.3 percent Friday as investors waited for word about whether a sale was on or off for the home improvement retailer's contractor business.

• GameStop Shares Up; Analysts Expect Earnings to Outpace Forecasts Friday, 24 Aug 2007 | 9:29 AM ET

  Shares of video game retailer GameStop Corp. rose in premarket electronic trading Friday after analysts predicted the company will surpass its new full-year profit forecast.

• BHP Billiton Seeks to Grow Aggressively in India Friday, 24 Aug 2007 | 4:20 AM ET

  BHP Billiton, the world's biggest mining company, said it would seek to grow aggressively in India where volume growth is outstripping China, its other boom market.

• Facebook Devising New Advertising System: WSJ Thursday, 23 Aug 2007 | 5:53 AM ET

  Social networking Website Facebook is working on an advertising system to allow marketers to target users with ads based on the information people reveal about themselves on the site, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition early on Thursday.

• Swad Is Fannie Mae's New CFO, Blakely Stays as Exec Vice President Wednesday, 22 Aug 2007 | 7:46 PM ET

  Former AOL executive Stephen M. Swad has become the new chief financial officer at mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae, the company said Wednesday. Swad's succession as finance chief, replacing Robert Blakely, had been planned for some time.  Blakely stepped down as its chief financial officer last Friday but remains an executive vice president.

• Mortgage Lender First Magnus Files Chapter 11 Wednesday, 22 Aug 2007 | 12:48 AM ET

  First Magnus Financial, one of the largest independent U.S. mortgage lenders, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, the latest home loan provider to collapse as the housing market slumps and credit crisis widens.

• Gates Discloses Holdings in McDonald's, Progressive, Kodak Tuesday, 14 Aug 2007 | 6:52 PM ET

  Bill Gates, billionaire chairman and co-founder of Microsoft, disclosed Tuesday that his foundation holds stakes in McDonald's, wireless tower operator Crown Castle International and Progressive, the third-largest U.S. auto insurer.