Archive for Wednesday, October 08, 2008

• Federal Reserve to buy up short-term commercial debt By Maura Reynolds

• Ex-Restoration exec to settle insider trading case

• Winter forecast: higher utility bills By Elizabeth Douglass

• Struggling AMD spins off factories

• Safeway’s net income rises 3%

• August borrowing drops at 3.7 percent rate

• Tenet Healthcare to close Irvine Regional Hospital

• Fed to buy massive amounts of short-term debts

• Growth in revenue from online advertising slows

• American to ban in-flight porn

• Growth, inflation weigh on Fed

• Wall Street bounces back after global rout

• Insurance giant AIG’s role in market crisis probed

• Big chains a headache for small drugstores By Andrea Chang

• FDIC seeks to raise bank premiums By Jim Puzzanghera

• AIG fiddles, Wall St. burns By David Lazarus

• Linens ‘n Things seeks to speed up store closings

• EU ministers agree to boost bank deposit insurance By Henry Chu and Sebastian Rotella

• Eli Lilly settles Zyprexa probes

• U.S. retirement plans fall $2 trillion

• Alcoa’s 3rd-qtr. profit falls 52%

• Fed orders emergency rate cut to 1.5 percent By Jeannine Aversa