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In a pair of e-mails to his employees in August, the chairman of now-bankrupt Enron touted the company's stock and declared that the energy trader giant's growth "has never been more certain."

Southern lawmakers once sought help for the textile industry as a matter of simple fairness.

Car enthusiasts flocked Saturday to the North American International Auto Show after a week of industry layoffs and budget woes that many were eager to forget.

A top Argentine official lambasted the International Monetary Fund on Saturday.

Two counties and four cities could introduce a 2-cent gasoline tax pegged for a $40 million tourism proposal by Retirement Systems of Alabama.

Ford Motor Co.'s decision to slash 35,000 jobs is the latest round of bad news to hit employees at the beleaguered automaker.

Microsoft Corp. has lost its bid to settle dozens of private antitrust lawsuits by donating $1 billion worth of computers and software to the nation's poorest public schools.

The value of the Argentine peso fell by more than 39 percent in its first day as a free-floating currency.

Federal regulators are poring over the records of a Miami-based commercial bank that the government shut down for being financially unstable.

Enron Corp. took an important step Friday in getting its once-influential energy trading operation running again.