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• Paulson To Prod China on Currency

  Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. will urge China to maintain a strong currency during high-level talks this week as worries grow in the United States that Beijing may be exacerbating the global slowdown by deflating the value of the yuan to spur its own economy, Treasury officials said yes... Posted Dec 02 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, New York, United States, to, Henry M. Paulson, on, Currency, Barack Obama, International Monetary Fund, China, Asia, Beijing, Morgan Stanley, Paulson, Timothy Geithner, Thailand, Wang Qing, Wu Yi, Dartmouth College, Ford Foundation, Wang Qishan, Chiang Mai, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Liu Liu, Teng Tai, Kathy Lien, Tsinghua University, Prod, China Galaxy Securities Co. Ltd.

• Economic Signs Point to Longer, Deeper Recession

  The U.S. economy entered a recession one year ago, a group of the nation's leading economists said yesterday, and new evidence that the downturn will be deep and prolonged sent the stock market plummeting. Posted Dec 01 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, Wall Street, U.S. Federal Reserve, United States, to, Ben Bernanke, Henry M. Paulson, U.S. Department of Commerce, Europe, Barclays plc, Dow Jones & Co. Inc., U.S. Department of the Treasury, China, Freddie Mac Holdings, Fannie Mae, Asia, Japan, Wachovia Corporation, Stanford University, Economic, Signs, U.S. Institute for Supply Management, Recession, Mark Vitner, Point, Ethan Harris, National Bureau of Economic Research, Deeper, Robert Hall, Business Cycle Dating Committee, Longer,

• Carlyle's Hawaiian Telcom Files for Bankruptcy

  Carlyle Group, the District-based private-equity firm, suffered a new setback yesterday when one of its investments, a Hawaiian provider of local and long-distance telephone service, filed for bankruptcy protection. Posted Dec 01 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, for, The Carlyle Group LLC, Asia, Verizon Communications Inc., Time Warner Cable Inc., Files, Bankruptcy, Chris Ullman, Wilmington, U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, Warsaw, OJSC Novolipetsk Steel, Telcom, Carlyle's, Hawaiian, Hawaiian Telcom Inc.

• Stocks Tank as Recession Declared

  Investors were in full retreat yesterday, sending stocks tumbling after a panel of economists confirmed that the country has been in a recession for about a year. Posted Dec 01 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Wall Street, United States, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Ben Bernanke, U.S. Department of Commerce, Europe, Bank of America Corporation, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Stocks, Dow Jones & Co. Inc., Citigroup Inc., As, Connecticut, Asia, Japan, New York Mercantile Exchange Inc., Chevron Corporation, Oppenheimer Holdings Inc., First Horizon National Corporation, Christopher Low, U.S. Institute for Supply Management, Recession, Westport, Meredith Whitney, Tank, National Bureau of Economic Research, The National Retail Federation, Laszlo Birinyi Jr., Declared, Birinyi Associates Inc.

• OPEC Delays Decision About Cutting Output Until Dec. 17

  The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries yesterday delayed a decision on whether to cut the cartel's oil output, but demand that is falling in the United States and unexpectedly weak in China makes it likely that the group will lower production at its Dec. 17 meeting in Algeria,... Posted Nov 29 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: United States, Barclays plc, Bloomberg LP, About, China, Cutting, Asia, New York Mercantile Exchange Inc., Until, Canada, OPEC, Venezuela, Cairo, Saudi Arabia, Ali al-Naimi, Delays, Decision, Output, Algeria, King Abdullah, Chakib Khelil, Paul Ting, 17, Dec.

• Thieves Stole Identities to Tap Home Equity

  Federal authorities this week announced a series of arrests and convictions in connection with a global identity theft ring that stole millions of dollars by hijacking home-equity lines of credit issued to thousands of consumers. Posted Nov 27 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: New York, United States, to, Miami, Virginia, New Jersey, California, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Dallas, China, South Korea, Asia, Vietnam, Tokyo, Japan, Verizon Communications Inc., Federal Bureau of Investigation, Home, Canada, Tap, Newark, Queens County, Equity, U.S. District Court, Thieves, Springfield (Illinois), U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Precious Matthews, Daniel Yummi, Credit Union Information Security Professionals Association, Identities, Brandy Anderson, Hakeem Olokodana, Derrick Polk, Oladeji Craig, Christopher Christie, Eric Rabe, Identity Theft Assistance Center, Marc Leibman, Yomi Jagunna, Abayomi Lawal, Stole

• Obama Picks N.Y. Fed President Geithner as Treasury Secretary

  President-elect Barack Obama has selected New York Federal Reserve Bank President Timothy F. Geithner as Treasury secretary, handing the post to a primary architect of the Bush administration's response to the financial crisis, according to Democratic and industry officials yesterday. Posted Nov 21 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, Wall Street, New York, United States, Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., Fed, Henry M. Paulson, U.S. Department of Commerce, Georgetown University, The White House, The Washington Post Company, Dow Jones & Co. Inc., Lehman Brothers Inc., Citigroup Inc., Federal Reserve Bank of New York, As, President, Mexico, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Illinois, Obama, Chicago, Bill Clinton, N.Y., Asia, Russia, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Daniel K. Tarullo, U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Bill Richardson (Politician), U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Robert Rubin, University of Chicago, Jason Furman, The Brookings Institution, U.S. House of Representatives, Treasury, Penny Pritzker, Secretary, Timothy Geithner, U.S. Senate, Austan Goolsbee, Lawrence Summers, New Mexico, U.S. Congressional Budget Office, United Nations, Picks, Kent Conrad, White House Council of Economic Advisers, Anne E. Kornblut, Chris Cillizza, National Economic Council, American International Group Inc., Geithner, Scott Talbott, Geithner Treasury, Joining Summers

• Wal-Mart Names Its Global Chief as CEO

  Wal-Mart made the surprise announcement yesterday that Mike Duke, the head of its international division, will replace H. Lee Scott Jr. as chief executive of the world's largest retailer next year as its foreign business continues to grow rapidly in scale and importance. Posted Nov 21 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: United States, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Europe, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, As, India, Mexico, Its, Chief, China, Germany, South Korea, Asia, Names, Service Employees International Union, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., SAM'S West Inc., Conservation International Foundation, Glenn Prickett, CEO, Eduardo Castro-Wright, Global, Latin America, Wal-Mart, H. Lee Scott, Wal-Mart Watch, David Nassar, Charles Grom, Battalia Winston International, Rob Walton, Bentonville, David Tovar, Mike Duke, Joe Carideo, The Seiyu Ltd.

• Yahoo Searching for New CEO and an Identity

  The day after Yahoo announced the imminent departure of chief executive and co-founder Jerry Yang, the stock market applauded. Posted Nov 18 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Microsoft Corporation, AOL LLC, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., eMarketer Inc., David Hallerman, for, New, and, Citigroup Inc., Searching, Asia, an, News Corporation Ltd., Piper Jaffray Companies, Stanford University, New York City, CEO, Fox Interactive Media Inc., Yahoo, Jerry Yang, Identity, David Filo, Sharpe Partners LLC, Gene Munster, Ross Levinsohn, Kathy Sharpe, Jack Evans, Peter Chernin, Jon Miller, Dan Rosensweig, Flickr.com

• Japan's Economy in Recession, Government Says

  TOKYO, Nov. 17 -- Japan, the world's second-largest economy, has fallen into recession, the government said Monday. Posted Nov 16 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: United States, JP Morgan Chase & Co., In, Economy, Europe, The Associated Press, Asia, Tokyo, Japan, Toyota Motor Corporation, Government, Japan's, Says, Recession,, Honda Motor Co. Ltd., Canon Inc., Kaoru Yosano, Taro Aso, Masamichi Adachi

• Experts Warn of Security Risks in Financial Downturn

  Intelligence officials are warning that the deepening global financial crisis could weaken fragile governments in the world's most dangerous areas and undermine the ability of the United States and its allies to respond to a new wave of security threats. Posted Nov 14 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, United States, Financial, In, United Kingdom, Europe, Georgetown University, Al Qaeda, The Pentagon, of, U.S. Department of the Treasury, The World Bank Group, Iraq, Afghanistan, World Trade Center, China, Asia, Beijing, Julie Tate, The Heritage Foundation, Marriott International Inc., Yemen, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Mike McConnell, Warn, Downturn, Central Intelligence Agency, Security, The Taliban, Osama bin Laden, Middle East, East Asia, Pakistan, Islamabad, Risks, Fran Townsend, U.S Council on Foreign Relations, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Nashville, Experts, Michael Hayden, Adam Segal, James R. Clapper, Charles Allen, Albert Keidel, Bruce Hoffman, Derek Scissors

• Gloom Goes Up Around Globe as Signs Point Down

  Evidence of a broad global recession continued to accumulate yesterday, with U.S. officials reporting a spike in jobless claims, Germany confirming that its economy has shrunk for six consecutive months, and the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development projecting a... Posted Nov 13 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: United States, Europe, Dow Jones & Co. Inc., As, Goes, Down, Up, International Monetary Fund, China, Germany, Asia, London, Japan, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Intel Corporation, Signs, Paris, Gloom, Point, International Energy Agency, High Frequency Economics, Ian Shepherdson, Around, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Federal Statistical Office of Germany, Jorgen Elmeskov, Globe

• Retracing the Path Toxic Powder Took To Food in China

  SHIJIAZHUANG, China -- Xue Jianzhong never posted a sign on his ground-floor shop, but somehow everyone knew what he was selling. Customers from all over this dairy farming region in the northeastern province of Hebei flocked to Xue's dusty street to buy special concoctions that he said would make... Posted Nov 07 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: United States, to, In, The, China, Asia, Beijing, Shanghai, Food, BMW AG, Mercedes-Benz International Inc., Liu Songjie, Shanxi Province, Path, Took, Toxic, Crissie Ding, Hebei Province, Sanlu Group Co. Ltd., Liu Liu, Liu Qiujiang, Jinglong Fengli Chemical Co., Shandong Province, Shijiazhuang, Huixin Chemical Co., Retracing, Powder, Qiao Fuming

• Markets Tumble as Grim Data Pile Up

  Slumping retail sales and weakness in the auto sector helped send stocks plummeting again yesterday. Posted Nov 06 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Wall Street, United States, Markets, Europe, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Dow Jones & Co. Inc., As, Boston, General Motors Corporation, Barack Obama, Up, Data, Asia, Toyota Motor Corporation, Chevron Corporation, Detroit, Eaton Vance Corp., Grim, Cisco Systems Inc., Robert MacIntosh, Tumble, Randy Cass, Pile

• Discord on Economies In a World Of Trouble

  Presidents and prime ministers from major countries around the world will gather in Washington in two weeks to begin heated negotiations over the shape of global financial regulation as they scramble to avoid a deep worldwide recession and restore confidence in markets. Posted Nov 01 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, U.S. Federal Reserve, United States, In, on, A, European Union, United Kingdom, Europe, The White House, George W. Bush, of, World, India, The World Bank Group, John McCain, Barack Obama, International Monetary Fund, China, Bank of England, University of Oxford, Asia, London, Beijing, Tokyo, Shannon Smiley, Shanghai, Berlin, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Akiko Yamamoto, Trouble, Paris, Gordon Brown, Dana Perino, White House National Security Council, UK Financial Services Authority, Nicolas Sarkozy, Karla Adam, Angela Merkel, Economies, Seoul, London School of Economics and Political Science, Bretton Woods, Willem Buiter, Taro Aso,