While it is natural that New York politicians strive to keep taxes and jobs at home, not even the newly enlightened Eliot Spitzer can buck globalization. Read more..

By JENNY ANDERSON - The New York Times

It was the fourth consecutive year of double-digit economic growth and China’s strongest year since 1995. Read more..

By DAVID BARBOZA - The New York Times

The bigger-is-better worldview that has defined Ford is being replaced with a new one: less is more. Read more..

By MICHELINE MAYNARD - The New York Times

How to justify that $2.6 million Super Bowl commercial? Amortize it across the Internet, in e-mail and over the cellphone. Read more..

By STUART ELLIOTT - The New York Times

The maker of mobile phones said a push into emerging markets drove handset sales to a record. Read more..

By BLOOMBERG NEWS - The New York Times

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Smithfield Foods said it would phase out confinement of pigs in individual gestation crates over the next decade. Read more..

By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO - The New York Times

The Power Corporation of Canada is negotiating to acquire Marsh & McLennan’s Putnam Investments Mutual Fund unit for an estimated $3.9 billion. Read more..

By IAN AUSTEN - The New York Times

The once booming market for home loans to people with weak credit is now coming under greater pressure. Read more..

By VIKAS BAJAJ and CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY - The New York Times