With a loan from a relative and a recipe he found in the basement at the local public library, Ernest Gallo founded what would become, at one point, the world's largest winery. The legendary wine maker died Tuesday at his home in Modesto, California...
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At a brief joint news conference with the Prime Minister of Australia,President Bush was asked today about China.The president noted that there are many dimensions to US-China relations including economic relations.This is part of what he said: I th...
The former head of Worldcom is back on the witness stand today in federal court in New York city. Bernard Ebbers is charged with fraud for his role in the massive accounting scandal that took place at Worldcom between 2000 and 2002. Yesterday he took...
The nation's biggest department store chain Federated is buying its No.2 rival--May Department Stores in a deal valued at 11 billion dollars.The combination forms a chain with nearly a thousand retail outlets and as NPR's Scott Hosley reports, the mo...
Time now for business news. There was plenty of bad news on the economic front yesterday. Stock prices slid while the cost of a barrel of oil rose by more than two dollars and forty cents. One reason for the moves was a steep drop in the value of the...
Back now with Day to Day, I'm Madeleine Brand. It's President's Day, so let's talk about presidents and the economy and the old axiom that presidents don't have much control over the economy is not always true. Marketplace's Matthew Algeo joins...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 06 July 2007 Business leaders from 150 companies from around the world are calling for action on climate change. The leaders signed a declaration at a United Nations meeting, in which they committed themselves to reducing the d...
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 12 June 2007 Africa's political and business elite are in Capetown, South Africa, for the opening of the World Economic Forum on Africa. Five heads of state and more than 700 delegates from 42 countries are seeking ways to...
Transcript of the Prime Minister's Broadcast on the Environment and Business Friday 27 October 2000 One of the usual criticisms of Governments and politicians is that they are all words and no action. So it was a bit of a novelty this week to be und...