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  1. President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House about health care reform and Iraq's new electoral law Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
    Health care overhaul faces stone wall in Senate AP - 56 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.

  2. FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2008 file photo, passengers wait in long lines at United Airlines domestic terminal at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco. Most carriers pushed through a $10 fare increase at the end of October, 2009. For the holidays, the big airlines added a $20 surcharge each way on popular travel days closest to Christmas and New Year's. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
    Holiday airfares close to last year but climbing AP - Sun Nov 8, 8:02 AM ET

    If holiday travelers on the same plane compare what they paid to fly, they're likely to find quite a spread, depending on when they bought their tickets.

  3. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, center, is joined by (L-R) Majority Whip James Clyburn, and Rep. George Miller, D-Calif. during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009 in Washington after the passage in the house of the health care reform bill. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
    House, Senate health care bills detailed AP - 2 hours, 14 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - A comparison of the health care bills before Congress.

  4. In this photo made Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, specialists Scott Wetzel, Michael Bonnano and Peter Gaicchi, left to right, and Gennaro Saporito, foreground right, work at a post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stock market volatility is back, a signal to some experts that the powerful rally that started in early March may be coming to an end. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
    Stock volatility is back, a sign of an aging bull? AP - 33 minutes ago

    Stock market volatility is back, a signal to some experts that the powerful rally that started in early March may be coming to an end.

  5. Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling (R) chats with U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner as they gather for the family photo at the G20 Finance Ministers meeting at a hotel in St. Andrews, Scotland, November 7, 2009. REUTERS/Andrew Winning
    Geithner: need stimulus, not financial transactions tax Reuters - Sun Nov 8, 3:03 AM ET

    ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Saturday stressed the necessity of keeping global economic stimulus in place until recovery is assured and opposed the utility of a tax on financial transactions as a way to dampen risky bank behavior.

  6. Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange moments before the closing bell on November 5. Wall Street's gravity-defying rally found new life over the past week, providing optimism for investors heading into what has historically been one of the best periods of the year.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Spencer Platt)
    Stocks eye retailers as jobless ranks grow Reuters - Sun Nov 8, 11:30 AM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - As unemployment in the United States edges above 10 percent, anxious investors will look to earnings reports from major retailers for signs of life in the beaten-up consumer.

  7. Jobless: 10 percent is tougher than it used to be AP - Sun Nov 8, 12:00 AM ET

    WASHINGTON - It hurts more to be unemployed now than the last time the jobless rate hit 10 percent.

  8. Two department stores of German retailers Karstadt and Kaufhof stand side-by-side in the southern German city of Trier. Employees of the embattled German department store chain Karstadt, owned by the insolvent retail group Arcandor, agreed Saturday to take salary cuts as part of a last-ditch effort to save their jobs.(AFP/DDP/File/Torsten Silz)
    Staff at struggling German retail giant agree to tighten belts AFP - Sat Nov 7, 3:51 PM ET

    BERLIN (AFP) - Employees of the embattled German department store chain Karstadt, owned by the insolvent retail group Arcandor, agreed Saturday to take salary cuts as part of a last-ditch effort to save their jobs.

  9. A supporter holds a sign during a rally against the health care overhaul bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
    House votes strict ban on abortion subsidies AP - Sun Nov 8, 4:24 AM ET

    WASHINGTON - A bipartisan House coalition voted Saturday to prohibit coverage of abortions in a new government-run health care plan that Democrats would establish to compete with private insurers.

  10. Teaching the Facebook Generation BusinessWeek - Fri Nov 6, 8:08 AM ET

    Our goal as college professors is to open students minds to new experiences so they can grow intellectually while they mature through the traditional four-year process. But we are also challenged to give students the immediate skills they will need once they graduate so that they can begin their professional careers and move away from the fry-o-later to the cubicle and beyond.

  11. A cleaner cleans the main entrance of the Reserve Bank in Sydney. Withdrawing Australia's government stimulus now would interrupt the recovery underway, Treasurer Wayne Swan said Sunday as he warned the country was not immune to the risks to the global economy.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)
    Australia stimulus needed for recovery: Treasurer AFP - Sun Nov 8, 1:55 AM ET

    SYDNEY (AFP) - Withdrawing Australia's government stimulus now would interrupt the recovery underway, Treasurer Wayne Swan said Sunday as he warned the country was not immune to the risks to the global economy.

  12. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao talks at a session of the 4th Ministerial Conference of the Sino-African Forum in Egypt at in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh November 7, 2009. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
    China hopes U.S. keeps deficit to appropriate size Reuters - Sun Nov 8, 1:49 PM ET

    SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - China hopes that the United States will keep its deficit to an appropriate size to ensure basic stability in the U.S. dollar exchange rate, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Sunday.

  13. The Accidental Hero BusinessWeek - Fri Nov 6, 8:08 AM ET

    Stuart Frankel isn't what you'd call a power player in the world of franchising. Five years ago he owned two small Subway sandwich shops at either end of Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital. After noticing that sales sagged on weekends, he came up with an idea: He would offer every footlong sandwich (the chain also sells 6-inch versions) on Saturday and Sunday for $5, about a buck less than the usual price. "I like round numbers," says Frankel, a brusque New Yorker who moved to Miami in 1972 and owned a drugstore before opening his first Subway outlet in 1988.

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