Money Anecdote

A virtual futures exchange is being assembled to allow people to bet money on a film’s box office success.

MARTINEZ — A Martinez teen was beaten and strangled in December because he wanted to tell his father that he had stolen his guns to pay off a drug debt, according to a prosecutor who filed murder and torture charges today against four people in the killing.

Ed Willes: The shine had barely started to fade from Canada’s epic win in men’s hockey when the first email arrived. Loosely stated, it went like this: The players on the men’s team received $20,000 each for their gold medal and they need that money like a fat guy needs another piece of cheesecake

It’s not very often that a story, any real life story, can have a Hollywood ending.

March 10 — Dubai World, the state-owned holding company seeking to renegotiate terms on $26 billion of debt, made “some progress” in talks with creditors, U.K. Trade Minister Mervyn Davies said.

Hedge funds that trade currencies are taking hits from politicians casting them as speculators out to sink the euro and push Greece into insolvency.

March 10 — Hedge funds that trade currencies are taking hits from politicians casting them as speculators out to sink the euro and push Greece into insolvency. They are also losing money.

March 10 — Hedge funds that trade currencies are taking hits from politicians casting them as speculators out to sink the euro and push Greece into insolvency.

“So, what are the wonders?” you might ask upon encountering Daniyal’s Mueennuddin ’s In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, a Story Prize finalist. Many interpretations of the title are possible: the stories themselves, the characters in them, valuable objects.

PHOENIX- The fund that pays for jobless benefits is expected to run out soon in Arizona.