Federal Mine Agency Considers New Rules (Stock Trading) To Improve Safety
Federal Mine Agency Considers New Rules To Improve Safety
After one of the deadliest months for coal mining in years, federal mine regulators last week began formally considering safety improvements to help miners survive underground fires and explosions. Among the proposals: mandatory caches of oxygen tanks and breathing masks inside every coal mine.
Joby Warrick
Bernanke Inherits an Experienced Fed Staff
Alan Greenspan was unreachable on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, as terrorists destroyed several blocks in the financial heart of New York City. Returning from a bankers' conference in Switzerland, the Federal Reserve chairman was flying in a jet over the Atlantic — depriving the central bank of…
Nell Henderson
Bush Choses Prof to Head Economic Council
WASHINGTON — President Bush has chosen a Stanford University business professor to chair his Council of Economic Advisers, the White House announced Monday.
AP
No Fuel for Bulls in Exxon Mobil Profit
Exxon Mobil Corp. today reported the biggest annual profit ever earned by an American company. The $36 billion in earnings was enough to lift Exxon Mobil stock, but not enough to keep the Dow Jones industrial average from falling.
Jerry Knight
Jury Chosen for Lay, Skilling
Former Enron executives' trial, which starts Tuesday, caps an era of corporate scandal.
Carrie Johnson
Top Enron Officials' Trial Begins Today
The outcome of the criminal trial of former Enron Corp. executives Kenneth L. Lay and Jeffrey K. Skilling, which opened with jury selection today, will write the coda to four years of battle over whether government can effectively police corporate wrongdoing.
Ben White and Carrie Johnson
Growth in 4th Quarter Reached a 3-Year Low
The U.S. economy slowed sharply in the last three months of 2005 to the weakest pace in three years, as consumers, businesses and government all pulled back on spending, the Commerce Department reported yesterday, raising concerns about the strength of the expansion this election year.
Nell Henderson
Online Overtime
For the football fanatic, the lead-up to Super Bowl Sunday is exhilarating, but it's also draped in a creeping melancholy: The high-adrenaline, beer-sozzled party days of the football season are winding down.
Steven Levingston
In China, a Rare Return
TANQIU VILLAGE, China On almost every other day, Cai Weilan wakes up hundreds of miles away in a cramped factory dormitory, facing another long shift making sweaters for strangers across the ocean.
Peter S. Goodman