Chevron seen settling case on Iraq oil By CLAUDIO GATTI AND JAD MOUAWAD Chevron is preparing to acknowledge that it should have known oil kickbacks were being paid to Saddam Hussein.
Alcoa makes a hostile bid for Alcan By IAN AUSTEN The success of Alcoa's hostile $27 billion takeover offer for the rival Alcan of Canada may rest as much with politicians as investors.
Wall Street Journal held news of Murdoch's bid By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN AND RICHARD PÉREZ PEÑA Rupert Murdoch told the newspaper's top editor about his offer for Dow Jones days before it was made public.
Icahn loses bid to gain seat on Motorola board By ERIC FERKENHOFF The billionaire financier Carl Icahn had used his campaign to criticize Edward Zander's performance as chief executive.
Economists asking: Is it time to revalue the yuan? By ALAN WHEATLEY / Reuters China's foreign exchange reserves and trade surplus are expanding so fast that some economists say a U-turn in policy, though unlikely, can no longer be firmly dismissed.
Second chemical eyed in Chinese pet food scandal By DAVID BARBOZA Cyanuric acid, an industrial chemical used in the United States to disinfect swimming pools, is often added to animal feed in China, producers said.
Restaurateur to the stars sued by ex-waiters By STEVEN GREENHOUSE Michael Chow, the owner of two high-profile New York restaurants, "utilized degradation as a management technique," a lawsuit alleges.
Trading blame for implosion in subprime mortgages By VIKAS BAJAJ Lenders in California say big investment banks encouraged and pushed them to make risky loans. Wall Street executives say lenders became sloppy and did not pay enough attention to fraud.
Japanese investors see Vietnam as a sure bet By NGUYEN NHAT LAM AND ERIKO AMAHA / Reuters Driven by low interest rates at home, Japanese are entering Vietnam's nascent stock market as an alternative to investing in China and India.
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