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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced steps including a demand for more information on investors to determine whether they are driving up food prices.

Shifting its focus to smaller cars as consumers abandon trucks in response to high fuel prices, G.M. is closing four truck plants and weighing a sale of Hummer.

Ford said its car sales were up 3 percent and its pickup and S.U.V. sales dropped 24 percent, part of a larger trend in the industry.

The Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, signaled on Tuesday that further interest rate cuts were unlikely because of concerns about inflation.

The luxury home builder posted a narrower-than-expected loss of $97. million in the second quarter, hurt by weakened demand amid the nation’s housing slump.

Orders for manufactured goods posted a surprisingly strong increase in April as demand rose across a number of industries.

The deaths of six hospital patients who received a blood-based drug at a hospital in Jiangxi Province has prompted an unusually swift response from authorities.

Resolving the global food crisis could cost as much as $30 billion a year and wealthier nations are doing little to help the developing world, United Nations officials said.

Stocks markets fell on Monday after a trio of Wall Street’s biggest banks were hit with a ratings downgrade, leaving investors worried that additional billion-dollar losses may be in the offing.

After a weekend fire destroyed part of the lot at Universal Studios, guides on the popular studio tour were working the disaster into their patter.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had accused the restaurant of “severe and pervasive” harassment of female, black and Hispanic employees.

A Chinese real estate company has signed a deal to lease space in the Freedom Tower, making it the first private company to agree to occupy the future skyscraper.

James Tagliaferri’s St. Thomas Island-based asset-management company is the real money behind Big Brown and International Equine Acquisitions Holdings.

A couple of decades after boutique hotels were first launched, the concept has become so successful that hoteliers across the industry are rushing to develop boutique brands.

The agreement, which takes effect next January for new PCs in the United States and Canada, displaces a similar one Hewlett-Packard has with Yahoo.

The lawsuit against Yahoo’s board over its rebuff of Microsoft’s $47.5 billion buyout bid was made public by a judge who said that Yahoo had not shown good reason to keep it confidential.

Major League Baseball’s effort to maintain exclusive control of its players’ statistics failed on Monday.

China Unicom, a cellphone service provider, agreed to sell a wireless network to the country’s largest fixed-line operator and buy a fixed-line company of its own.

The network equipment maker agreed to pay $160 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit over the backdating of stock options, the company said in a statement.

Bud Selig’s bout with skin cancer has led to Major League Baseball’s $10 million donation to an outfit, which will stage an unprecedented collaboration among the major networks for a fund-raiser to battle the disease.