Oil slides below $68 on demand worries

HOUSTON – Oil prices dipped below US$66 a barrel today as investor sentiment once again seemed to shift to the growing global economic malaise […]

McCarthy names new regional leaders

The president of McCarthy Building Cos. Inc.’s largest regional division will retire next year and the construction company will split management of the region […]

Oil prices fall on profit-taking

NEW YORK – Oil prices swung lower today, falling below US$109 a barrel as traders cashed in profits a day after crude rocketed to […]

Move fast on financial rescue, Bush urges

WASHINGTON–As negotiators from Congress and the White House worked feverishly through the weekend on a federal financial rescue package, U.S. President George W. Bush […]

Genelabs makes CFO Driscoll its sole CEO

Genelabs Technologies Inc. made Frederick Driscoll its president and CEO.
Driscoll, the Redwood City company’s chief financial officer, had been sharing the CEO’s job with Irene […]

Oil companies check U.S. facilities in Gustav

Energy companies started checking their oil rigs, refineries and pipelines for damage on Tuesday, a day after Hurricane Gustav slammed the Gulf Coast in […]

It may be too soon to exit oil-dollar bet

The long oil/short dollar bet may be off the table for now as energy prices ease and the U.S. currency rises, but inflation and […]

Court will rule on bid to end GM blockade

General Motors may have breached a union contract in the way it handled the closure of an Oshawa truck plant but that doesn’t justify […]

Currency seen sailing past parity

If you thought that parity with the U.S. dollar was the loonie’s long-term flight plan, you might want to fasten your seat belt. At least […]

Is economy sliding into abyss?

NEW YORK–For months, Americans have been subjected to a sort of economic water torture – a maddening drip of bad news about jobs, gas […]