Analysts Debate Whether Gateway's Fall Is a Portent
By Barnaby J. Feder
12/01/00
After Gateway's report of a 30 percent plunge in sales and gloomy projections, the debate has begun over whether Gateway's resulting pessimism is an overreaction.More

PepsiCo Is Reported Close to Purchasing Quaker Oats
By Andrew Ross Sorkin and Greg Winter
12/01/00
Almost a month after rejecting PepsiCo's takeover offer as too low, the Quaker Oats Company is now close to reaching the same deal, to be acquired by PepsiCo for $13.7 billion.More

Stock Sell-Off Accelerates and Broadens
By Jonathan Fuerbringer
12/01/00
Selling on Wall Street moved into high gear as investors received another dose of technology earnings disappointments and were left wondering how much more the American economy and corporate earnings will slow.More

More of the Self-Employed Returning to the Office
By David Leonhardt
12/01/00
The often accepted wisdom that the United States is increasingly a nation of entrepreneurs and self-starters has a problem: it does not appear to jibe with reality.More

G.E.'s New Corporate Face
By Claudia H. Deutsch
12/01/00
People talk about why Jeffery R. Immelt won the race to be General Electric's next chairman and chief executive. Perhaps it is because his vocabulary does not include the phrase "It can't be done."More

Floyd Norris: This Half-Price Sale Is a Sign of Economic Woes Ahead
By Floyd Norris
12/01/00
Christmas is more than three weeks off, but the half-price sale is already going on. It is stocks that are on sale; to wit, the Nasdaq variety.More

Japan's Top Mobile Phone Company to Buy AT&T Wireless Stake
By Simon Romero
12/01/00
NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile phone company, agreed to buy a minority stake in AT&T Wireless for almost $10 billion.More

Advertising: Big Independent Ad Agency Is Sold
By Stuart Elliott
12/01/00
The last of the big independent agencies, Deutsch Inc. in New York, is being acquired by an industry giant in another sign of consolidation that is remaking Madison Avenue.More

PepsiCo and Quaker Oats Close to a Deal
By Andrew Ross Sorkin and Greg Winter
11/30/00
Almost a month after rejecting PepsiCo's takeover offer as too low, the Quaker Oats Company is now close to reaching the same deal to be acquired by PepsiCo for $14.3 billion.More

Dow Drops 215; Nasdaq Loses 109
By Robert D. Hershey Jr.
11/30/00
Stock prices dropped sharply in heavy trading on Thursday after more companies announced sales or profit shortfalls and there was no sign the three-week-old presidential election stalemate would be soon resolved.More

Sales of PC's Down Sharply at Gateway
By Barnaby J. Feder
11/30/00
Stock prices sank again on Thursday, weighed down by disclosures that Gateway Inc. and the Altera Corporation are failing to meet sales forecasts, the latest in a long series of technology disappointments.More

Sales of PC's Down Sharply at Gateway
By Barnaby J. Feder
11/30/00
Stock prices sank again on Thursday, weighed down by disclosures that Gateway Inc. and the Altera Corporation are failing to meet sales forecasts, the latest in a long series of technology disappointments.More

Corporate Capital Spending Is Slowing Broadly
By David Leonhardt
11/30/00
The investment explosion is showing signs of slowing, consumer confidence is falling and analysts are saying the moderation in capital spending raises the odds that the economy will markedly slow.More

Gateway Says Its PC Sales Fall Sharply
By Barnaby J. Feder
11/30/00
Gateway reported that its sales had plummeted 30 percent from last year's figures and warned that it would probably miss projections for quarterly earnings and revenue by a wide margin.More

Steel City, Slovakia
By Edmund L. Andrews
11/30/00
At $450 million, U.S. Steel's acquisition of VSZ is a small deal in financial terms. But as a measure of transformation, it is a big event as much for U.S. Steel as for the struggling nation of Slovakia.More