Business news for Mon, 31 Dec 2007 & with word partners. 5 news.

In the high-flying world of NYC corporate finance and the society it engenders partners at the white shoe Manhattan law firms are viewed merely as members of the lumpenproletariat by the gazillionaire hedge fund managers, etc.

The dollar remained under pressure against its major trading partners following weak housing data on Friday which which added to investors' fears that the American economy may sink into recession

When the Chesapeake Bay Program and its partners wanted area residents to ease fertilizer use in the spring of 2005, they launched an effort that shot straight to the gut.

Trade level jumps of more than 50 percent with several of South Florida's trading partners have some in the import/export community perplexed.