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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/most-popular/viewed/business Most Viewed - Business en-us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:33:24 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/most-popular/viewed/business http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_bipartisanship ap/20100210/us_obama_bipartisanship AP business Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:09:20 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_bipartisanship"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.d9c5f1a995ea4a12b64337c259be81bb.obama_bipartisanship_dcpm112.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=vSsfLSOLHhDTihR54dGOmQ--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, looks on as House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio speaks to members of the media outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, after a meeting between President Barack Obama and bipartisan leaders of the House and Senate to discuss the economy and jobs. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)" border="0" /></a>AP - Partisanship is reaching new heights in Washington, even as President Barack Obama makes almost daily pleas to get along. He's scheduled a bipartisan health care summit, and just Tuesday he hosted GOP leaders at the White House for the first time in two months.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_bipartisanship"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.d9c5f1a995ea4a12b64337c259be81bb.obama_bipartisanship_dcpm112.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=vSsfLSOLHhDTihR54dGOmQ--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, looks on as House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio speaks to members of the media outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, after a meeting between President Barack Obama and bipartisan leaders of the House and Senate to discuss the economy and jobs. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/us_power_plant_explosion ap/20100209/us_power_plant_explosion AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:27:40 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/us_power_plant_explosion"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100207/capt.508ca9d6ec69434c81aaca7cf790e5e5.aptopix_middletown_explosion_lon104.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=6gbvBcgH..fZcMl005NC1A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="In this photo provided by Casey Casserino, the Kleen Energy plant on River Road in Middletown, Conn., is seen Sunday Feb. 7, 2010. An explosion blew apart the power plant under construction as workers purged natural gas lines, killing multiple people and injuring at least 14 in a blast that shook homes miles away, officials said. (AP Photo / Casey Casserino) MANDATORY CREDIT" border="0" /></a>AP - Some workers building a Connecticut power plant shattered by a gas explosion had been spending more than 80 hours a week there before the blast killed five Sunday, The Associated Press has learned. One employee said workers smelled gas less than an hour beforehand and were told to open doors wider for air.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/us_power_plant_explosion"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100207/capt.508ca9d6ec69434c81aaca7cf790e5e5.aptopix_middletown_explosion_lon104.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=6gbvBcgH..fZcMl005NC1A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this photo provided by Casey Casserino, the Kleen Energy plant on River Road in Middletown, Conn., is seen Sunday Feb. 7, 2010. An explosion blew apart the power plant under construction as workers purged natural gas lines, killing multiple people and injuring at least 14 in a blast that shook homes miles away, officials said. (AP Photo / Casey Casserino) MANDATORY CREDIT" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_bi_ge/toyota_recall ap/20100210/toyota_recall AP business Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:58:59 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_bi_ge/toyota_recall"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.a34a8a8911f445c09479da1f4f232350.japan_toyota_recall_tok104.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=11OK7RB3B9R8O_WVDUbk3A--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="In this June 5, 2009 photo, workers give the final check on newly assembled new 2010 Prius hybrid vehicles at Toyota Tsutsumi Plant in Toyota, central Japan. Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling nearly 200,000 of its signature Prius green cars in Japan for braking problems, the latest in a string of embarrassing safety lapses at the world's largest automaker. Toyota president Akio Toyoda will hold a news conference at the automaker's Tokyo office later Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010 to outline details of the braking problem, including plans for a possible recall in the U.S., a company official told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)" border="0" /></a>AP - In public, Toyota is running apologetic TV ads and vowing to win back customers' trust. Behind the scenes, the besieged carmaker is trying to learn all it can about congressional investigations, maybe even steer them if it can.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_bi_ge/toyota_recall"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.a34a8a8911f445c09479da1f4f232350.japan_toyota_recall_tok104.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=11OK7RB3B9R8O_WVDUbk3A--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this June 5, 2009 photo, workers give the final check on newly assembled new 2010 Prius hybrid vehicles at Toyota Tsutsumi Plant in Toyota, central Japan. Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling nearly 200,000 of its signature Prius green cars in Japan for braking problems, the latest in a string of embarrassing safety lapses at the world's largest automaker. Toyota president Akio Toyoda will hold a news conference at the automaker's Tokyo office later Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010 to outline details of the braking problem, including plans for a possible recall in the U.S., a company official told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/us_crib_recall ap/20100209/us_crib_recall AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:17:35 GMT AP - Government safety officials Tuesday announced a recall of more than 500,000 drop-side cribs sold at Buy Buy Baby, Kmart, Wal-Mart and other stores after the death of three infants. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/ml_dubai_tallest_building ap/20100209/ml_dubai_tallest_building AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:42:59 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/ml_dubai_tallest_building"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.820f1a22836c485ca4fa523bb4a589af.dubai_tallest_building_ny110.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=7Ak5oMTTz2owWSpLnNbtjQ--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2010 file photo, the Burj Khalifa , the world's 828 meter tallest building is illuminated during the official opening ceremony in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Burj Khalifa's owner said Monday, Feb. 8, 2010 the observation deck of the world's tallest tower has been unexpectedly shut down, disappointing visitors and marring the spire's reputation just a month after it opened. The precise cause of the $1.5 billion Dubai skyscraper's closure remained unclear. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreil, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Visitors on the observation deck of the world's tallest tower heard a loud boom, then saw dust that looked like smoke seeping through a crack in an elevator door 124 floors above the ground. The 15 people inside were trapped for 45 frightening minutes until rescuers managed to pry open the doors.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/ml_dubai_tallest_building"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.820f1a22836c485ca4fa523bb4a589af.dubai_tallest_building_ny110.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=7Ak5oMTTz2owWSpLnNbtjQ--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2010 file photo, the Burj Khalifa , the world's 828 meter tallest building is illuminated during the official opening ceremony in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Burj Khalifa's owner said Monday, Feb. 8, 2010 the observation deck of the world's tallest tower has been unexpectedly shut down, disappointing visitors and marring the spire's reputation just a month after it opened. The precise cause of the $1.5 billion Dubai skyscraper's closure remained unclear. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreil, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/us_hollywood_for_sale ap/20100209/us_hollywood_for_sale AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:52:52 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/us_hollywood_for_sale"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.4fc8cca9bab44302b68987ce117d6a38.hollywood_for_sale_la101.jpg?x=130&y=71&q=85&sig=VEl.2zm5.1CjtOAGRW9xnA--" align="left" height="71" width="130" alt="In this photo taken Friday Jan.29,2010 showing the top of Beachwood Canyon, shows the Hollywood sign in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles. A nature conservation group said Monday Feb. 8, 2010 it has reached a deal that would protect a huge swath of land above the Hollywood sign from being developed into luxury homes. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)" border="0" /></a>AP - A nature conservation group said Monday it has reached a deal that would protect a huge swath of land near the world-famous Hollywood sign from being developed into luxury homes.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/us_hollywood_for_sale"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.4fc8cca9bab44302b68987ce117d6a38.hollywood_for_sale_la101.jpg?x=130&y=71&q=85&sig=VEl.2zm5.1CjtOAGRW9xnA--" align="left" height="71" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this photo taken Friday Jan.29,2010 showing the top of Beachwood Canyon, shows the Hollywood sign in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles. A nature conservation group said Monday Feb. 8, 2010 it has reached a deal that would protect a huge swath of land above the Hollywood sign from being developed into luxury homes. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_bi_ge/us_toyota_driver_psychology ap/20100210/us_toyota_driver_psychology AP business Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:26:35 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_bi_ge/us_toyota_driver_psychology"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.901cebd3ec8447eba210385b9bcf753b.toyota_driver_psychology_scam102.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=TlvAN7SeEMd4bbimzoP1lA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Venkat Thannir poses in his 2010 Toyota Camry at his home Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, in Lexington, S.C. In the Fall, Thannir's car accelerated on it's own as he was pulling out of a parking lot in a Burger King in North Carolina. He has not taken his car in for the recall. (AP Photo/Anne McQuary)." border="0" /></a>AP - You're driving down the highway and suddenly your car starts accelerating on its own. Knuckles white, going from 60 to 90 miles an hour in seconds, you do what comes naturally &mdash; hit the brakes. But what if the car keeps going?</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_bi_ge/us_toyota_driver_psychology"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.901cebd3ec8447eba210385b9bcf753b.toyota_driver_psychology_scam102.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=TlvAN7SeEMd4bbimzoP1lA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Venkat Thannir poses in his 2010 Toyota Camry at his home Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, in Lexington, S.C. In the Fall, Thannir's car accelerated on it's own as he was pulling out of a parking lot in a Burger King in North Carolina. He has not taken his car in for the recall. (AP Photo/Anne McQuary)." border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/us_toyota_recall_us ap/20100209/us_toyota_recall_us AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:13:30 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/us_toyota_recall_us"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r938856496.jpg?x=99&y=130&q=85&sig=fnzZF4c.tczzla0QdtYt4g--" align="left" height="130" width="99" alt="A Toyota Prius' badge is pictured on a car at a Toyota dealership in west London February 9, 2010. Toyota Motor Corp said it is recalling nearly half a million of its flagship Prius and other hybrid cars for braking problems as it seeks to address criticism over the handling of its worst safety crisis. REUTERS/Toby Melville (BRITAIN - Tags: TRANSPORT BUSINESS)" border="0" /></a>AP - The nation's largest auto insurer said Tuesday it alerted federal safety regulators in late 2007 about a rise in reports of unexpected acceleration in Toyota vehicles, the latest warning sign to emerge about the massive recall.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/us_toyota_recall_us"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r938856496.jpg?x=99&y=130&q=85&sig=fnzZF4c.tczzla0QdtYt4g--" align="left" height="130" width="99" alt="photo" title="A Toyota Prius' badge is pictured on a car at a Toyota dealership in west London February 9, 2010. Toyota Motor Corp said it is recalling nearly half a million of its flagship Prius and other hybrid cars for braking problems as it seeks to address criticism over the handling of its worst safety crisis. REUTERS/Toby Melville (BRITAIN - Tags: TRANSPORT BUSINESS)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_insurer_rate_hike ap/20100210/us_health_insurer_rate_hike AP business Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:03:58 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_insurer_rate_hike"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.3b4b880d24df46a4bbee78dfc117b6eb.health_insurer_rate_hikes_nybz160.jpg?x=112&y=130&q=85&sig=l33Xz16.QNVWlZNh8s.zqA--" align="left" height="130" width="112" alt="FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2010 file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. In a letter to the president of Anthem Blue Cross, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Monday, Feb. 8, 2010, she was very disturbed to learn of the planned increases, calling them 'extraordinary.' She said they were hard to understand in light of the profitability of Anthem's parent company, WellPoint Inc.(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Cenetafile)" border="0" /></a>AP - For the second time this week, President Barack Obama has pointed to one health insurer's major rate hike in California as a doomy harbinger of rising premiums across America.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_insurer_rate_hike"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.3b4b880d24df46a4bbee78dfc117b6eb.health_insurer_rate_hikes_nybz160.jpg?x=112&y=130&q=85&sig=l33Xz16.QNVWlZNh8s.zqA--" align="left" height="130" width="112" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2010 file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. In a letter to the president of Anthem Blue Cross, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Monday, Feb. 8, 2010, she was very disturbed to learn of the planned increases, calling them 'extraordinary.' She said they were hard to understand in light of the profitability of Anthem's parent company, WellPoint Inc.(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Cenetafile)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_iran ap/20100209/us_obama_iran AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:45:38 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_iran"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.bb69adc425844367a856902cc779bcc2.aptopix_obama__dcsa103.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=VeqvRIfap_ntNoGNHqkTkA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="President Barack Obama listens while conducting the daily press briefing, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, in the White House press briefing room in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)" border="0" /></a>AP - President Barack Obama said Tuesday that Iran remains on an "unacceptable" path to nuclear weapons, despite its denials, and that the U.S. and like-minded countries will soon produce a set of punishing sanctions against the Islamic republic.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_iran"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.bb69adc425844367a856902cc779bcc2.aptopix_obama__dcsa103.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=VeqvRIfap_ntNoGNHqkTkA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="President Barack Obama listens while conducting the daily press briefing, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, in the White House press briefing room in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul ap/20100210/us_health_care_overhaul AP business Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:33:24 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.c1410de9c8464a3ea431ff07148b1b3b.obama__dcsa105.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=EFz9GRrSB0l3WShxlUYgbQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="President Barack Obama gestures while conducting the daily press briefing, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, in the White House press briefing room in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)" border="0" /></a>AP - Signaling he'd meet critics part way on health care, President Barack Obama said Tuesday he's willing to sign a bill even if it doesn't deliver everything he pursued through a year of grinding effort at risk of going down as a dismal failure.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.c1410de9c8464a3ea431ff07148b1b3b.obama__dcsa105.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=EFz9GRrSB0l3WShxlUYgbQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="President Barack Obama gestures while conducting the daily press briefing, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, in the White House press briefing room in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_europe_financial_crisis ap/20100209/eu_europe_financial_crisis AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:15:16 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_europe_financial_crisis"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.4a71400196304a0aa60a9e8b7df8e3a0.wall_street_ath202.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=t0W81imakNVSy4X6RWeHZQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="A man walks past a screen showing falling stocks at the Athens Stock Exchange, in red, in Greece on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Stocks traded mixed Monday as investors remained wary about the strength of the economic recovery and mounting debt in Europe. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)" border="0" /></a>AP - Wealthy European nations were moving closer toward swallowing a bitter pill Tuesday: rescuing Greece from its overspending before its debts drag down the euro and stock markets all the way to Wall Street.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_europe_financial_crisis"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.4a71400196304a0aa60a9e8b7df8e3a0.wall_street_ath202.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=t0W81imakNVSy4X6RWeHZQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="A man walks past a screen showing falling stocks at the Athens Stock Exchange, in red, in Greece on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Stocks traded mixed Monday as investors remained wary about the strength of the economic recovery and mounting debt in Europe. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/us_toyota_lobbying ap/20100209/us_toyota_lobbying AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:58:19 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/us_toyota_lobbying"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.d07895c8a55b40949dc641ded62d69f1.toyota_lobbying_dcmc104.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=E0V81koQnLAcK4Leze_ghw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Jim Shuker, center, flanked by fellow Toyota workers Kelly Banks, left, and Kathryn Ragsdale, speaks to the Associated Press during an interview at Longworth House Office Building cafeteria, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Shuker, who tests vehicles for Toyota, says he feels so strongly about quality that he believes he personally failed by not finding the company's acceleration problem. Shuker was among 23 Toyota workers from across the country who were flown to Washington at company expense to fight Tuesday for their employer's reputation. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)" border="0" /></a>AP - Jim Shuker, who tests vehicles for Toyota, says he feels so strongly about quality that he believes he personally failed by not finding the company's acceleration problem.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/us_toyota_lobbying"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.d07895c8a55b40949dc641ded62d69f1.toyota_lobbying_dcmc104.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=E0V81koQnLAcK4Leze_ghw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="Jim Shuker, center, flanked by fellow Toyota workers Kelly Banks, left, and Kathryn Ragsdale, speaks to the Associated Press during an interview at Longworth House Office Building cafeteria, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Shuker, who tests vehicles for Toyota, says he feels so strongly about quality that he believes he personally failed by not finding the company's acceleration problem. Shuker was among 23 Toyota workers from across the country who were flown to Washington at company expense to fight Tuesday for their employer's reputation. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/us_senate_nlrb ap/20100209/us_senate_nlrb AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:36:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/us_senate_nlrb"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.6dd10d93949144fb95562f179027211c.obama_bipartisanship_dcpm111.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=tPyaiBGkHaFf1_W7o5A_dw--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, left, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, speak to members of the media outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, after a meeting between President Barack Obama and bipartisan leaders of the House and Senate to discuss the economy and jobs. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)" border="0" /></a>AP - Senate Democrats on Tuesday failed to push through President Barack Obama's choice of a union lawyer to serve on the National Labor Relations Board after two of their own joined Republicans to block the nomination.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/us_senate_nlrb"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.6dd10d93949144fb95562f179027211c.obama_bipartisanship_dcpm111.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=tPyaiBGkHaFf1_W7o5A_dw--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="photo" title="House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, left, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, speak to members of the media outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, after a meeting between President Barack Obama and bipartisan leaders of the House and Senate to discuss the economy and jobs. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_bi_ge/us_honda_recall ap/20100210/us_honda_recall AP business Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:22:48 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_bi_ge/us_honda_recall"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.7dd7f398589c4744886d551e8c02382b.honda_recall_nybz180.jpg?x=130&y=78&q=85&sig=bUfOGc6CKamrSzAYwLvDHg--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="FILE - In this July 27, 2005 file photo, the Honda emblem is seen on a dealer's lot in Berlin, Vt. Honda Motor Co. is adding more than 378,000 cars to an existing safety recall for air bag inflation problems, the company said Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Honda Motor Co. is adding more than 378,000 cars to an existing safety recall for air bag inflation problems, the company said Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_bi_ge/us_honda_recall"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.7dd7f398589c4744886d551e8c02382b.honda_recall_nybz180.jpg?x=130&y=78&q=85&sig=bUfOGc6CKamrSzAYwLvDHg--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this July 27, 2005 file photo, the Honda emblem is seen on a dealer's lot in Berlin, Vt. Honda Motor Co. is adding more than 378,000 cars to an existing safety recall for air bag inflation problems, the company said Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_st_ma_re/us_wall_street ap/20100209/us_wall_street AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:09:58 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_st_ma_re/us_wall_street"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.bc0ec2de4bef41e5b018b3c7984420e5.wall_street_nyrd104.jpg?x=130&y=79&q=85&sig=oLXrd2asgfNo0_UdX1UN7Q--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="Traders Robert Maher, left, and Anthony Alvarino work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)" border="0" /></a>AP - The Dow Jones industrial average jumped back above 10,000 on hope that a resolution was near for Greece's debt crisis.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_st_ma_re/us_wall_street"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.bc0ec2de4bef41e5b018b3c7984420e5.wall_street_nyrd104.jpg?x=130&y=79&q=85&sig=oLXrd2asgfNo0_UdX1UN7Q--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="photo" title="Traders Robert Maher, left, and Anthony Alvarino work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/bs_nm/us_markets_stocks nm/20100209/us_markets_stocks Reuters business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:52:36 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/bs_nm/us_markets_stocks"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r2510752389.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=YPEP9NWCTMqlZPRA975MaA--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange, February 9, 2010. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The Dow posted its largest one-day percentage gain in three months on Tuesday, boosted by reports of an aid plan for heavily indebted Greece.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/bs_nm/us_markets_stocks"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r2510752389.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=YPEP9NWCTMqlZPRA975MaA--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="photo" title="Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange, February 9, 2010. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_bi_ge/us_toyota_s_friends ap/20100208/us_toyota_s_friends AP business Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:30:08 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_bi_ge/us_toyota_s_friends"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.95f5e36303424158a1ae5549cd66d3a1.toyota_s_friends_wx101.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=blAnYBB48zhvHwRrvIJbKw--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="FILE - In this May 9, 1996 file photo, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., left, and Then-West Virginia Gov. Gaston Caperton, right, point across the new Toyota Motor Company's TM MV Plant as Toyota Motor Company's President Hiroshi Okuda, center, looks on during ceremonies at the site in Buffalo, W.Va. Toyota has friends in high places in Washington, including some of the very people now investigating the Japanese automaker. (AP Photo/Bob Bird, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - The lawmakers now investigating Toyota's recall include a senator who was so eager to lure the Japanese automaker to his state that he tramped along through fields as its executives scouted plant sites, and a congresswoman who owes much of her wealth to a Toyota supplier.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_bi_ge/us_toyota_s_friends"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.95f5e36303424158a1ae5549cd66d3a1.toyota_s_friends_wx101.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=blAnYBB48zhvHwRrvIJbKw--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this May 9, 1996 file photo, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., left, and Then-West Virginia Gov. Gaston Caperton, right, point across the new Toyota Motor Company's TM MV Plant as Toyota Motor Company's President Hiroshi Okuda, center, looks on during ceremonies at the site in Buffalo, W.Va. Toyota has friends in high places in Washington, including some of the very people now investigating the Japanese automaker. (AP Photo/Bob Bird, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_bi_ge/us_congress_jobs ap/20100210/us_congress_jobs AP business Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:21:53 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_bi_ge/us_congress_jobs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100121/capt.e977af3717a143669ffcbc8181cc8d78.campaign_finance_dclb110.jpg?x=130&y=101&q=85&sig=L.Nc84wlrObcx_jqHbyQkQ--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., left, accompanied by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. talks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010, to dicuss campaign finance reform after the Supreme Court ruling. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)" border="0" /></a>AP - Senate Democrats circulated a jobs bill Tuesday that's light on new initiatives on boosting hiring and heavy with provisions sought by lobbyists for business groups, doctors and the satellite broadcasting industry.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_bi_ge/us_congress_jobs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100121/capt.e977af3717a143669ffcbc8181cc8d78.campaign_finance_dclb110.jpg?x=130&y=101&q=85&sig=L.Nc84wlrObcx_jqHbyQkQ--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="photo" title="Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., left, accompanied by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. talks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010, to dicuss campaign finance reform after the Supreme Court ruling. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/bs_nm/us_boeing nm/20100209/us_boeing Reuters business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:38:41 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/bs_nm/us_boeing"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265741836627-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=u6XoSgyA2xovgCJX3o.laA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Oracle's Australian helmsman James Spithill, seen here addressing reporters in Valencia, said on Tuesday he decided to get his pilots licence to help him sail Oracle's giant trimaran, whose solid vertical wingspan of 68 metres is more than twice the length of the wing of a Boeing 747.(AFP/Pedro Armestre)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Boeing Co flew its twice-delayed 747-8 Freighter for the first time on Monday, a significant milestone in the history of the legendary 747 family and a step that could bolster the credibility of the world's second-largest plane maker.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/bs_nm/us_boeing"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265741836627-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=u6XoSgyA2xovgCJX3o.laA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Oracle's Australian helmsman James Spithill, seen here addressing reporters in Valencia, said on Tuesday he decided to get his pilots licence to help him sail Oracle's giant trimaran, whose solid vertical wingspan of 68 metres is more than twice the length of the wing of a Boeing 747.(AFP/Pedro Armestre)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters)