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Two companies are consolidating their national call center operations in metro Atlanta, creating 390 jobs by next January.

The highest-ranking Enron Corp. executive to undergo congressional questioning in the company's downfall says he didn't know the details of a complex web of partnerships that concealed some of the energy trading company's debt.

Ireland's biggest bank on Wednesday accused a currency trader at its Baltimore subsidiary of stealing $750 million in what could be the largest such scam since a rogue employee brought down England's Barings Bank in the mid-1990s.

Global Crossing Ltd. has asked a bankruptcy judge to approve a restructuring process that would forgive all the telecommunication firm's $12.4 billion of debt and leave $700 million in the company coffers for the new owners.

Sea turtles and trees are not normally associated with energy conglomerates such as Atlanta-based Southern Co.

Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation will close its Oklahoma City plant by the end of the year and will lay off the 350 people who work there.

Elizabeth Kemple Adams, who has been the features editor at The Augusta Chronicle for six years, has been named the paper's managing editor.

Delta Air Lines canceled 200 flights out of Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport for Wednesday in anticipation of icy weather that never came.

Worker productivity rose in the fourth quarter by the largest amount in more than a year as businesses cut workers' hours and eliminated jobs to cope with the ailing economy.

Some lawmakers hope to give the nation's unemployed workers extended jobless benefits even if the Senate appears ready to give up on a broader economic stimulus package.