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U.S. communications equipment maker Motorola Inc. said Wednesday it is eliminating 4,000 more jobs, three-quarters of them in its cell phone sector.

For sheer chutzpah, Intel chief executive officer Craig Barrett's Wednesday piece in the Wall Street Journal, explaining why he opposed expensing stock options,

Every month, bullish Wall Street pundits predict that the monthly employment report will show gains of 150,000 jobs or more, the number needed to begin absorbing the 2.2 million jobs lost since President George W. Bush took office. Every month the econom

Coming to the end of the second quarter earnings season, the naturally optimistic business media are caroling how second quarter earnings have "matched expectations." Maybe so, but much accounting chicanery has been used to get them to do so, and the "exp

Christmas comes but once a year, and this year, for bears on U.S. stocks, it should arrive with the upcoming earnings reporting season, beginning Monday.

Prices on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq ended sharply lower in active trading on Friday, knocked down by poor earnings reports and ambiguous U.S. economic data. It was the sixth successive losing week in the markets. The Dow Jones industrial