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Priceline.com, the name-your-own-price Internet company, reported a fourth-quarter net loss of $1.3 million Monday, far smaller than the same period a year ago despite a weakened airline industry.

Arthur Andersen LLP, the auditor under fire for its handling of Enron Corp.'s financial books, says it has brought in former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker to help it make fundamental changes in the way it does business.

Enron Corp. executives pocketed large amounts of money in running complex partnerships used to disguise the troubled energy company's financial problems while top managers and auditors provided little oversight, an internal probe found.

Metro Atlanta has the highest rate of bankruptcy among major metro areas, according to a newspaper's analysis of personal bankruptcy filings in more than 3,000 metro counties nationwide.

It was a rare Super Bowl where the game may have been more entertaining than the commercials.

Like so many other laid-off Enron Corp. employees, Sue Nix had been looking forward to hearing its embattled former leader explain what happened.

OPEC is likely to leave oil production unchanged at its upcoming meeting in March, the cartel's secretary-general said Saturday.

Nearly 1 million discouraged people suspended their job searches in January, producing an unexpected drop in the nation's unemployment rate.

Venture capitalists emerged from the dot-com debris to finance more fresh ideas late last year.

Alaska has few incentives to own a stake in a natural gas pipeline from the North Slope to the Lower 48 states, according to a Department of Revenue report.