Archive for May 20th, 2008

Humanitarian relief charities, confronted with back-to-back natural disasters, are scrambling to raise money from Americans and corporations.

Stocks tumbled Tuesday afternoon, with the Dow losing about 200 points, as a spike in core wholesale inflation, followed by a jump in oil prices intensified concerns about even higher prices in an already battered U.S. economy.

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It's hard to imagine now, but in 1999 gasoline sold for 90 cents a gallon. How'd we get from there to $4 a gallon?

Oil prices surged to a new trading record above $129 a barrel Tuesday amid continuing concern about global supply.

With prices crashing around the nation, home price affordability has improved dramatically in many U.S. cities.

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the U.S. Treasury Department is violating the law by failing to design and issue currency that is readily distinguishable to blind and visually impaired people.

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