Gary Poster, with essential assists from Galyn Norwood, Phiroon Phihakendr, Jose Quijada, Pavandeep Kalra. Oil prices, a depressed euro and lousy earnings prevent Dow from sharing Nasdaq's glory.
Carmakers drown in sea of scandal and bad luck.
Another NYC dot-com bites the dust. Technology companies pulled the haggard and despondent U.S. market out of bed, and gave it a shower and a clean suit. But today, Sun got the company for a mere 2 billion smackeroos in stock. The news just keeps on gettin' worse for the automobile industry. Let's start in the southern Germany, where a newspaper reports that DaimlerChrysler's own workers are getting ready to sue their employer for allegedly forcing them to work 1.1 million hours in uncompensated overtime.