PR-inside.com) COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Oil prices jumped 14 percent on New Year's Eve, capping a year that saw prices soar to unprecedented heights only to give up four years of gains in just five months. An unprecedented collapse in

PR-inside.com) COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Oil prices jumped 14 percent on New Year's Eve, capping a year that saw prices soar to unprecedented heights only to give up four years of gains in just five months. Energy prices began to

PR-inside.com) COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Oil prices jumped above $44 per barrel on the last day of 2008, wrapping up what has been the most turbulent year ever for crude markets in which crude gave up four years of gains

PR-inside.com) NEW YORK (AP) - An attorney for Bernard Madoff said the disgraced Wall Street money manager would give the Securities and Exchange Commission a list of his personal assets by 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT) Wednesday to comply with

PR-inside.com) LOS ANGELES (AP) - Media giant Viacom Inc. said its Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central and 16 other channels will go dark for 13 million U.S. subscribers by Jan. 1 if a new carriage fee deal with Time Warner Cable

PR-inside.com) MOSCOW (AP) - The CEO of Russia's state gas monopoly Gazprom says Russia will cut off all gas supplies to Ukraine on Thursday morning. Alexei Miller says the decision was made after Wednesday's talks ended with no agreement on

PR-inside.com) NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street saw a merciful end to a dreadful year Wednesday as stocks closed the last session of 2008 with a sizable advance. According to preliminary calculations, the Dow Jones industrials rose 108.00 points to

PR-inside.com) NEW YORK (AP) - The financing arm of General Motors Corp. has completed a complicated debt deal that was designed to raise capital and help the auto loan company ride out a historic collapse in auto sales. The results

PR-inside.com) WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of laid-off workers continuing to draw unemployment benefits bolted to 4.5 million in late December, and even more Americans are expected to join the ranks of the jobless in 2009. While first-time applications for

PR-inside.com) NEW YORK (AP) - The credit markets, long a shadowy and little understood part of the financial system for many investors, turned into headline makers during 2008, simply because they stopped working. And, at the start of the new

PR-inside.com) NEW YORK (AP) - For the auto sector _ and many of its stocks _ 2008 was nearly the end of the road. First came the record-breaking rise of gas prices this summer. Next came the end of leasing.

PR-inside.com) NEW YORK (AP) - The dollar rose against the euro and the Japanese yen but dropped versus the pound in light trading on New Year's Eve Wednesday. The 15-nation euro bought $1.3954 in late New York trading, below the

PR-inside.com) NEW YORK (AP) - The quiet trading in commodities markets on the last day of 2008 wasn't just the result of investors being on vacation _ it was a sign that oil, gold, wheat and other futures had fallen

PR-inside.com) SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Happy New Year from Microsoft Corp.: Your Zune is dead. Thousands of Microsoft's Zune media players _ the software company's answer to Apple Inc.'s iPod _ unexpectedly conked out Wednesday and showed users an error

PR-inside.com) NEW YORK (AP) - Bernard Madoff gave the Securities and Exchange Commission a list of his personal assets Wednesday, but investors may have to wait to learn whether the filing contained any clues as to the whereabouts of their

PR-inside.com) BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) - To the sound of midnight fireworks and pealing church bells, Slovakia joined the eurozone, putting it under the shared currency's protective umbrella amid a world financial downpour _ and underscoring the former Soviet bloc nation's

PR-inside.com) NEW YORK (AP) - Internet stocks mostly sank in 2008, as Web heavyweights Google and Yahoo were wounded by slowdowns in retail sales and online advertising growth _ issues that also dragged down the sector. But while shares dropped,

PR-inside.com) SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The semiconductor industry, notoriously volatile even without the shock of a global economic downturn, was badly hurt in 2008 as prices for memory chips continued their dizzyingly rapid fall and demand for PC microprocessors dropped