George Jahn, The Associated Press June 29, 2008 - 10:50 p.m. MADRID, Spain - With prices skyrocketing and supply fears growing, energy ministers from the world's major producing countries and multinational oil company heads face unprecedented challenges at this year's World Petroleum Congress. It wasn't always that way. Markets esteem been relatively steady chiefly years since the congress first started meeting 19 years ago, allowing the thousands of delegates it draws annually to focus a great deal of of ...
Wal-Mart to revamp logo at its U.S. stores
Jun 30 2008
Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press June 29, 2008 - 8:20 p.m. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The familiar logo of the world's largest retailer is acquirement a makeover. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Sunday the company will begin replacing logos on the front of its U.S. stores through a new design beginning this fall. Wal-Mart spokesman Kevin Gardner said the change would ponder modifications customers already have seen in some store signs and advertisements. "This logo update is simply a reflection of the ...
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Investors enter the second half of 2008 still worried about oil, banks and housing
Jun 30 2008
Madlen Read June 29, 2008 - 1:47 p.m. NEW YORK (AP) - The year is nearly halfway over, and Wall Street appears to subsist on even shakier ground than when it began 2008. And this shortened week ahead of the Fourth of July holiday is unlikely to bring the market enough proof that the economic meteorological character is improving. The Dow Jones industrial average is down more than 14 percent during the term of ...
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Giant Saudi field called Khurais is key to boosting oil output
Jun 30 2008
Sebastian Abbot, The Associated Press June 29, 2008 - 3:52 p.m. KHURAIS OILFIELD, Saudi Arabia - This massive oilfield surrounded by the agency of the desolate sands of Saudi Arabia's boundless eastern desert feels in the same manner as the middle of nowhere. But what happens superior the next year at Khurais, one of Saudi Arabia's last undeveloped giant oilfields, could hold the key to what drivers in Canada, the United States and abroad will pay at the cross-question ...
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U.S. newspapers, reeling from slumping ads, slash jobs
Jun 30 2008
Seth Sutel, The Associated Press June 29, 2008 - 3:54 p.m. In this June 1, 2006 file photo, the Tribune Tower, home of the Chicago Tribune newspaper offices and newsroom, is shown in Chicago. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Nam Y. Huh, file NEW YORK - Even for an busy vigor awash in bad news, the U.S. newspaper profession went through one of its ...
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