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Business News: Senator a leading expert on foreign policy -- Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware is Barack Obama's pick as vice presidential running mate. Biden, 65, is a veteran of more than three decades in the Senate, and one of his party's leading experts on foreign policy, an area in which polls indicate Obama needs help in his race against Republican rival John McCain.

Allister Langlands ASERIOUS test of any business is whether it can make the transition from being fuelled by the charisma of its founder to being a successful company in it

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MORE homeowners unable to sell their properties are being forced to rent them out as the supply of buyers dries up. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors this week repo

Nestle Prepared Foods Co. is recalling about 215,660 pounds of frozen stuffed pepperoni pizza sandwich products, known as Hot Pockets Pepperoni Pizza, because the product might contain small pieces of hard red plastic and other foreign material, which pose a risk of serious injury to consumers.

Delta Air Lines Inc. opposes antitrust immunity for American Airlines' proposed trans-Atlantic venture with British Airways Plc unless the two carriers give up ''significant'' flight slots at London's Heathrow Airport.

OMAHA, Neb. - The two long-term views of the U.S. economy were on vivid display at a town hall meeting here Thursday night, with the world's richest person on one side and pretty much everybody else on the other.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday emphasized concerns about sluggish growth and troubled credit markets while saying inflation...

Financials, Oil Send Stocks Up. Lehman Bros. takeover talk, oil's sharp reversal and Fed hints that rate hikes aren't in the offing pushed the...

Detroit mayor rejects plea deal