BY KELLEN M. HENRY– MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

New orders for manufactured goods increased 0.4 percent the U.S. Census Bureau reported Wednesday in a preliminary report on the manufacturing industry in June, following a 1.1 percent increase in May.

Factory orders were expected to fall 0.8 percent, according to a survey of economists by [...]

American automakers are hoping to market the idea that smaller can be better, when it comes to cars. Europe and Japan have successfully marketed smaller vehicles for years. (Blog.wired.com)

BY: KIRAN SOOD – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

Consumers might be willing to pay $2,000 to $3,000 more for a hybrid [...]

BY MARJORIE KORN, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

Most consumers are bemoaning high gasoline prices, and those same commuters have an incentive to hit up the oft-underutilized public transportation. And an overwhelmed system has brought its flaws to the surface.

This morning, Medill professor Ceci Rodgers was stuck at the Ravenswood stop on the [...]

By JASON M. BRESLOW – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

Despite its new “Happy Jetting” campaign, there has been little worth celebrating at JetBlue Airways Corp. [[JBLU]] recently.

In the last week alone, JetBlue announced a $7 million loss in the second quarter and saw its debt downgraded by Moody’s Investment Services. Amid such [...]

Credit market turmoil could boost CME’s move into OTC derivatives

by John Detrixhe

Apr 23, 2008

The CME Group Inc.’s latest foray into the $62 trillion off-exchange credit-default swaps market comes just as some critics [...]