Copyright (c) 2008 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1762 Most Recommended Business en-us Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:51:27 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1762 http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/jun2008bw20080627320852 bw/20080630/jun2008bw20080627320852 BusinessWeek Online Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:08:41 GMT BusinessWeek Online - State and local governments were flush with tax revenue during the five-year housing boom. They pulled from bulging pools of property, income, and sales tax to expand education, law enforcement, health care, and infrastructure programs without needing to burden residents and corporations with tax hikes. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/refco_bennett_dc nm/20080703/refco_bennett_dc Reuters Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:30:23 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/refco_bennett_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080703/2008_07_03t130815_450x300_us_refco_bennett.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=LloAXx2Pd8EkKkZdKRwDYw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Former Refco Chief Executive Phillip Bennett arrives for his sentencing hearing at Manhattan federal court in New York July 3, 2008. (Keith Bedford - UNITED STATES/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Phillip Bennett, the former chief executive of Refco, was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Thursday for fleecing investors of more than $2.4 billion in a fraud that destroyed the world's largest independent commodities broker.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/refco_bennett_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080703/2008_07_03t130815_450x300_us_refco_bennett.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=LloAXx2Pd8EkKkZdKRwDYw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Former Refco Chief Executive Phillip Bennett arrives for his sentencing hearing at Manhattan federal court in New York July 3, 2008. (Keith Bedford - UNITED STATES/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/nebraska_beef_recall ap/20080703/nebraska_beef_recall AP Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:58:58 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/nebraska_beef_recall"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080702/capt.7afac65f14c64b76a0f81b05d11e8597.nebraska_beef_recall_nenh102.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=53D6a9o1wHU4BrdYY2BzOA--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="The Nebraska Beef plant is seen in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, July 2, 2008. Nebraska Beef Ltd. is recalling nearly 532,000 pounds of ground beef produced in the past two months because the meat has been linked to an outbreak of E. coli illnesses. The federal government said that some of the Omaha-based company's beef was sold by grocer Kroger Co., and investigators traced the meat to Nebraska Beef after 38 people in Ohio and Michigan became ill. Kroger already recalled beef it sold in those states. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)" border="0" /></a>AP - Nebraska Beef Ltd. is expanding a recall announced earlier this week to include all 5.3 million pounds of meat it produced for ground beef between May 16 and June 26.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/nebraska_beef_recall"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080702/capt.7afac65f14c64b76a0f81b05d11e8597.nebraska_beef_recall_nenh102.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=53D6a9o1wHU4BrdYY2BzOA--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="The Nebraska Beef plant is seen in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, July 2, 2008. Nebraska Beef Ltd. is recalling nearly 532,000 pounds of ground beef produced in the past two months because the meat has been linked to an outbreak of E. coli illnesses. The federal government said that some of the Omaha-based company's beef was sold by grocer Kroger Co., and investigators traced the meat to Nebraska Beef after 38 people in Ohio and Michigan became ill. Kroger already recalled beef it sold in those states. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/refco ap/20080703/refco AP Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:07:05 GMT AP - The former head of Refco Inc., blamed for the collapse of one of the world's largest commodities brokerages, was sentenced to 16 years in prison Thursday by a judge who decried the "staggeringly arrogant" greed of white collar criminals. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/oil_prices ap/20080704/oil_prices AP Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:50:16 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/oil_prices"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080704/capt.67019f6fe37d496991794d2c9e0eaec2.japan_g8_summit_economic_woes_xkaj101.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=zg060RQjBbQlDkArw4h5aA--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Passersby walk past a price board indicating regular gas is sold at 190 yen (US$1.79) per liter (0.26 gallon) and the high-octane gas at 200 yen ($1.88) per liter at a gas station in Tokyo Thursday, July 3, 2008. Between surging oil prices, food inflation and a credit crunch that's depressed global growth, leaders from the Group of Eight economic powers face the gravest combination of economic woes in at least a decade when they gather next week. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)" border="0" /></a>AP - Oil prices remained near record highs above $145 a barrel in Asia after Saudi Arabia's oil minister suggested his country doesn't plan to boost production.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/oil_prices"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080704/capt.67019f6fe37d496991794d2c9e0eaec2.japan_g8_summit_economic_woes_xkaj101.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=zg060RQjBbQlDkArw4h5aA--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="Passersby walk past a price board indicating regular gas is sold at 190 yen (US$1.79) per liter (0.26 gallon) and the high-octane gas at 200 yen ($1.88) per liter at a gas station in Tokyo Thursday, July 3, 2008. Between surging oil prices, food inflation and a credit crunch that's depressed global growth, leaders from the Group of Eight economic powers face the gravest combination of economic woes in at least a decade when they gather next week. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/usa_stocks_bearmarket1_dc nm/20080702/usa_stocks_bearmarket1_dc Reuters Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:49:22 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/usa_stocks_bearmarket1_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080703/2008_07_02t185321_450x343_us_usa_stocks_bearmarket_1.jpg?x=130&y=99&q=85&sig=80N3fb91dFyHFBb5vmTFTA--" align="left" height="99" width="130" alt="With the Dow sliding into a bear market on Wednesday, the dark days on Wall Street are far from over, amid record oil prices, struggling consumers and the never-ending credit crisis. (Graphics/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - With the Dow sliding into a bear market on Wednesday, the dark days on Wall Street are far from over, amid record oil prices, struggling consumers and the never-ending credit crisis.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/usa_stocks_bearmarket1_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080703/2008_07_02t185321_450x343_us_usa_stocks_bearmarket_1.jpg?x=130&y=99&q=85&sig=80N3fb91dFyHFBb5vmTFTA--" align="left" height="99" width="130" alt="photo" title="With the Dow sliding into a bear market on Wednesday, the dark days on Wall Street are far from over, amid record oil prices, struggling consumers and the never-ending credit crisis. (Graphics/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/0827b4091032364818 bw/20080630/0827b4091032364818 BusinessWeek Online Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:08:41 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/0827b4091032364818"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080625/capt.3d947bd271cb428088e767fe5723670a.economy_new_home_sales_pack101.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=s19j6MxX8jNo7dn67vgD2Q--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="A real estate sign is seen in Wertzville, Pa., Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at a Charter Homes and Neighborhoods development. Sales of new homes tumbled for the sixth time in seven months in May while median prices kept plunging, underscoring the depth of the nation's housing woes. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)" border="0" /></a>BusinessWeek Online - The housing crisis is entering a new and frightening stage. On June 24, Standard & Poor's announced that the S&P/Case-Shiller 20-City Home Price Index had fallen more than 15% in April from a year earlier. Adjusted for inflation, the decline is the biggest since 1940-42, according to data collected by Yale University economist Robert Shiller.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/0827b4091032364818"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080625/capt.3d947bd271cb428088e767fe5723670a.economy_new_home_sales_pack101.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=s19j6MxX8jNo7dn67vgD2Q--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="A real estate sign is seen in Wertzville, Pa., Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at a Charter Homes and Neighborhoods development. Sales of new homes tumbled for the sixth time in seven months in May while median prices kept plunging, underscoring the depth of the nation's housing woes. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (BusinessWeek Online) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/american_airlines_jobs ap/20080704/american_airlines_jobs AP Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:52:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/american_airlines_jobs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.32558b1c331f4bf4bb2744b44181b719.holiday_travel_mh107.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=ifHInjwq7UMq3eBFsbkv4A--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Travelers line up at the American Airlines check in desk as they prepare to board flights Thursday, July 3, 2008 at Miami International Airport in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)" border="0" /></a>AP - Many more job cuts, likely totaling more than 6,000, are likely at American Airlines as the nation's largest airline hunkers down and tries to survive record high fuel costs.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/american_airlines_jobs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.32558b1c331f4bf4bb2744b44181b719.holiday_travel_mh107.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=ifHInjwq7UMq3eBFsbkv4A--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="Travelers line up at the American Airlines check in desk as they prepare to board flights Thursday, July 3, 2008 at Miami International Airport in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/usa_economy_jobs_dc nm/20080703/usa_economy_jobs_dc Reuters Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:36:53 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/usa_economy_jobs_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080703/2008_07_03t083811_450x294_us_usa_economy_jobs.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=D3qOZFeCqYa8ETthIvfbFw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Kyle Scott signs up with the Manpower temp agency in Park Ridge, Illinois April 10, 2008. (John Gress/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - U.S. employers cut workers from their payrolls for the sixth straight month in June for the country's longest losing streak since 2002, while the unemployment rate held steady at 5.5 percent, government data on Thursday showed.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/usa_economy_jobs_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080703/2008_07_03t083811_450x294_us_usa_economy_jobs.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=D3qOZFeCqYa8ETthIvfbFw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="Kyle Scott signs up with the Manpower temp agency in Park Ridge, Illinois April 10, 2008. (John Gress/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/economy_services ap/20080703/economy_services AP Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:30:06 GMT AP - Higher oil prices caused service businesses to shrink in June, as falling new orders and rising costs hit the nation's coffee shops, paper mills and corner stores. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/usa_autosales_dc nm/20080702/usa_autosales_dc Reuters Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:42:29 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/usa_autosales_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080702/2008_07_01t184325_450x333_us_usa_autosales.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=kYE5HHC8D.mRERlhuqsulw--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="Chevrolet pickup trucks and SUVs are seen at a dealership in Silver Spring, Maryland, July 1, 2008. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - U.S. auto sales plunged in June to a 15-year low, but a month-end clearance sale helped General Motors Corp retain its No. 1 spot and steer clear of the wipeout many had feared, sending its shares higher.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/usa_autosales_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080702/2008_07_01t184325_450x333_us_usa_autosales.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=kYE5HHC8D.mRERlhuqsulw--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="photo" title="Chevrolet pickup trucks and SUVs are seen at a dealership in Silver Spring, Maryland, July 1, 2008. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/chrysler_cuts ap/20080701/chrysler_cuts AP Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:27:08 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/chrysler_cuts"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080704/capt.905bf204fd03495e951e62bedcb37282.china_chrysler_xbej101.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=x_aopHAz65enmI0ybx4lkA--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="In this Feb. 28, 2007 file photo, a Chinese couple sits in front of a billboard advertisement for the Chrysler 300C, on a street corner in Beijing. Chrysler LLC, looking for foreign partnerships to help drive its business as U.S. sales slump, announced a deal with China's Great Wall Motor Co. on Friday, July 4, 2008, to study sharing technology, components and distribution.(AP Photo/Greg Baker, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - The worsening U.S. auto sales slump hit Chrysler LLC again Monday as it announced plans to close one St. Louis-area factory and cut a shift from another because of declining demand for minivans and pickups.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/chrysler_cuts"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080704/capt.905bf204fd03495e951e62bedcb37282.china_chrysler_xbej101.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=x_aopHAz65enmI0ybx4lkA--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="photo" title="In this Feb. 28, 2007 file photo, a Chinese couple sits in front of a billboard advertisement for the Chrysler 300C, on a street corner in Beijing. Chrysler LLC, looking for foreign partnerships to help drive its business as U.S. sales slump, announced a deal with China's Great Wall Motor Co. on Friday, July 4, 2008, to study sharing technology, components and distribution.(AP Photo/Greg Baker, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/markets_global_dc nm/20080704/markets_global_dc Reuters Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:51:27 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/markets_global_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080704/2008_07_04t045349_450x301_us_markets_global.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=KsLuGFycTktvvMqp6wVj8w--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A trader gestures in front of an electronic display board inside the Philippine stock exchange in the Makati financial district of Manila July 3, 2008. (John Javellana/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - World stocks slipped back towards this week's five-month low on Friday as steadying oil prices failed to erase concerns about slowing economic growth and rising inflation, and as banking stocks came under renewed pressure.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/markets_global_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080704/2008_07_04t045349_450x301_us_markets_global.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=KsLuGFycTktvvMqp6wVj8w--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A trader gestures in front of an electronic display board inside the Philippine stock exchange in the Makati financial district of Manila July 3, 2008. (John Javellana/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/electronic_prescribing_merger ap/20080701/electronic_prescribing_merger AP Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:15:12 GMT AP - The drug store and pharmacy benefit management industries on Tuesday will announce a combination of their information systems in order to boost electronic prescribing by physicians. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/gm_dc nm/20080702/gm_dc Reuters Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:42:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/gm_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080702/2008_07_02t095101_450x280_us_gm.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=ouRBO_QJ7pM7Ame0nSzscw--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="The General Motors building is seen in Detroit, Michigan June 2, 2008. (Molly Riley/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - General Motors Corp will need to raise as much as $15 billion in cash to shore up liquidity and bankruptcy is "not impossible" if the U.S. auto market continues to slump, Merrill Lynch said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/gm_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080702/2008_07_02t095101_450x280_us_gm.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=ouRBO_QJ7pM7Ame0nSzscw--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="photo" title="The General Motors building is seen in Detroit, Michigan June 2, 2008. (Molly Riley/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/wal_mart_lawsuit ap/20080701/wal_mart_lawsuit AP Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:17:53 GMT AP - A judge has ruled against Wal-Mart in a class-action lawsuit, saying the discount retailer violated state labor laws 2 million times by cutting worker break time and forcing employees to work off the clock. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/usa_economy_dc nm/20080703/usa_economy_dc Reuters Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:15:06 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/usa_economy_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080703/2008_07_03t090859_450x294_us_usa_economy.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=TWwQrzu7A7oRZHRaby0nXQ--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Kyle Scott signs up with the Manpower temp agency in Park Ridge, Illinois April 10, 2008. (John Gress/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - U.S. employers cut workers for a sixth straight month in June for the longest such streak since 2002 and the country's vast service sector unexpectedly contracted, underscoring the economy's frailty.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/usa_economy_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080703/2008_07_03t090859_450x294_us_usa_economy.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=TWwQrzu7A7oRZHRaby0nXQ--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="Kyle Scott signs up with the Manpower temp agency in Park Ridge, Illinois April 10, 2008. (John Gress/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/chrysler_production_dc nm/20080630/chrysler_production_dc Reuters Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:41:32 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/chrysler_production_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080701/2008_06_30t161202_450x298_us_chrysler_production.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=iv2Pxye58hEQ4IRwU6f0HQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Robotic arms work on the assembly line at Chrysler's St. Louis South Assembly Plant in a 2000 file photo. (Chrysler/Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Chrysler LLC will shut its St Louis minivan plant, cutting production of its top-selling vehicle and 2,400 factory jobs in a sign of the automaker's troubles with a market reeling from record gas prices.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/chrysler_production_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080701/2008_06_30t161202_450x298_us_chrysler_production.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=iv2Pxye58hEQ4IRwU6f0HQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Robotic arms work on the assembly line at Chrysler's St. Louis South Assembly Plant in a 2000 file photo. (Chrysler/Handout/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters)