Stock Trading - Exxon Posts Record Profit
Federal Reserve officials, meeting for the last time with Alan Greenspan as their chairman, raised their benchmark short-term interest rate today and signaled that they may nudge it higher in coming months to make sure economic growth does not fuel higher inflation.
Nell Henderson
Exxon Posts Record Profit
Exxon Mobil Corp. yesterday reported the highest profit in U.S. history: $10.71 billion for the fourth quarter of 2005 and $36.13 billion for the entire year.
Justin Blum
Contacts With Lobbyists Curbed
Republican and Democratic lawmakers are canceling their regularly scheduled meetings with lobbyists as the fallout from the Jack Abramoff scandal continues to roil Capitol Hill.
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum