Robert Manor

Billionaire investment banker Kenneth Langone met Monday with leaders of some the nation's largest investment banks who feel that the proposed merger of the New York Stock Exchange with Chicago-based...

In some ways civilization is a machine powered by petroleum. But crude oil and its companion, natural gas, do more than fuel cars, heat homes and pave streets. Oil is...

The price of crude oil rose within a dollar of its record high Tuesday, continuing a run-up that analysts don't expect will end anytime soon. Oil prices have risen roughly...

Michael Powell played a pivotal role in influencing everything from the cultural content of television to the way the nation talks on the phone. But the outgoing chairman of the...

A big fall in petroleum prices has brought down the cost of gasoline in recent weeks, and analysts say fuel may grow even cheaper in 2005. Although prices jumped Wednesday...

Oil giant Yukos appears headed for the auction block Sunday after Russia said it would defy a U.S. bankruptcy court's order halting the sale. The Russian government on Friday refused...

In a last-ditch attempt to stave off its dismemberment at the hands of Russian authorities, oil giant Yukos filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Houston, asking a U.S. court...

While flames shot out of upper floor windows of the LaSalle Bank building Monday night, LaSalle's chairman and chief executive, Norman Bobins, rushed to an Amsterdam airport to fly back...

The skyrocketing cost of energy and food drove wholesale prices in October to their biggest gain in almost 15 years, increasing pressure on companies throughout the economy to pass similar...