2008-01
12 09:51:20Stocks slammed by bad credit fears
NEW YORK (AP) - businessminute
Wall Street plunged again Friday amid renewed fears that the financial sector's troubles with bad credit won't soon end and that some consumers are buckling under the weight of a slowing economy. The major indexes each lost more than 1 percent, including the Dow Jones industrials, which finished down nearly 250 points.
2008-01
12 09:38:07The pitfalls of China's rough capitalism
GUANGZHOU, China (AP) - Ron Rust and Beve Kozub were poking around the toy booths at China's biggest trade fair two years ago when something caught their eye: pouty-faced baby dolls snuggling in light blue and pink fleece blankets, their eyes tightly shut or gazing with a newborn's woozy stare.