Business news for Fri, 28 Mar 2008. 1236 news.

The turmoil in the financial markets is a greater challenge to President Bush than September 11 was. He faces a slowdown in the world’s most powerful economic engine, a credit crisis of unknown limits and a regulatory system whose antique tangles reflect the United States’ origins and the 1930s financial trauma rather than the needs of the 21st century.

Chief executive refuses to comment on speculation that restructuring in Spain could lead to Germany's biggest energy company acquiring assets from the fall-out of deals

What kind of job can a woman find at a casino? The one Trudy Clark, a member of the Yavapai-Apache Nation, found is ''boss.''

Times are tough in the food retail and wholesaler business. Success means getting the most out of every transaction, and Sysco is an expert.

Congress demands answers about Bear Stearns' bailout, and a closer look at U.S. manufacturing.

S&P cut Financial Guaranty Insurance to "junk" status, saying the company failed to chart a course toward being a "viable operating entity."

A look at the first quarter's biggest winners and losers in U.S. markets.

The battle for who controls the internet in Canada has begun in earnest with a national labour union urging the CRTC to curb traffic interference by Bell Canada Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc.

(Crain’s) — Union Beverage Co.’s parent company is abandoning the Chicago wine and spirits distributor and joining forces with a competing entity owned by the Wirtz family. The deal will mean the demise of Union Beverage, owned by Dallas-based Glazer’s Wholesale Distributors. Union ...

A Delaware court rules against John Malone's Liberty Media in its attempt to block a reorganization of Internet company IAC/Interactive Corp. under Chairman Barry Diller, according to media reports.

Nearly four years after its distinctive latticed roof caved in, killing four in a shower of concrete and glass, the boarding area of Terminal 2E at Charles de Gaulle Airport was due to reopen to the public Sunday, following a painstaking reconstruction.

Britons are putting retirement saving on hold as they brace themselves for an economic slowdown.

Conal Gregory, Personal Finance Regional Journalist of the Year, finds the route to missing money

The big money bets were off through a day in which the dollar firmed, gold, oil and other commodities gave up ground, and consumer confidence...

Investor's Business Daily - Personal spending rose at the slowest pace in 17 months in February despite a bigger-than-expected gain in income, as consumers hunkered down amid worries over a weakening economy, bleak job picture and higher prices.

BRITISH Airways suffered share price misery yesterday in the wake of the high-profile problems hitting the opening of Heathrow's Terminal 5.

SHEFFIELD UNITED has set its sights on returning to both the Premiership and profitability next year following a disappointing season on the pitch.