Monday, September 20, 2004

Vietnam Takes Delivery of Boeing Plane HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Vietnam Airlines on Sunday took delivery of a Boeing 777-200ER flown in from Seattle, the last of four planes it bought three years ago following a landmark U.S.-Vietnam trade agreement... Microsoft Expands Sharing of Source Code SEATTLE (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is expanding a program to give government organizations access to some of its tightly guarded software blueprints amid growing competition from rivals who make such source code freely available....   Fed Decision Unlikely to Spur Rally NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street opinion is split on whether the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates at its meeting Tuesday, with conventional wisdom siding with a rate hike. But either way, the decision probably won't have as much impact on what happens to stock prices in the week ahead as will news of corporate earnings surprises....   Enron Trial to Shine Light on Wall Street HOUSTON (AP) -- Nearly two years before Enron Corp. crashed in scandal, the one-time energy giant cooked up what prosecutors say was a sham transaction involving Merrill Lynch & Co....   Exporters Angry Over Delay in Tax Bill WASHINGTON (AP) -- While record trade deficits and lost manufacturing jobs are campaign issues, U.S. exporters are fuming because Congress has yet to change corporate tax laws that threaten their sales in Europe, America's biggest foreign market....   Texas Grapefruit Growers See Hope MISSION, Texas (AP) -- With hurricanes devastating Florida grapefruit orchards a month short of harvest and California's season about to end, growers in Texas' Rio Grande Valley are hoping to squeeze big profits from their trademark Rio Red....   Yukos Said to Halt Some Exports to China MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's Yukos oil company is suspending oil exports to the Chinese National Petroleum Corp. because it cannot afford to pay transport expenses, a news agency reported Sunday....   Multiplayer Games Coming to Cell Phones AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- As millions buy increasingly powerful cell phones, many companies are racing to develop video games to take advantage of the newfound portability....   Democrat Emerges As Major Stem Cell Patron SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Over three decades, Bob Klein amassed a fortune by building and financing low-income housing. After his 14-year-old son was diagnosed with diabetes in 2001, however, he redirected his considerable political clout and business savvy. The longtime Democrat has since become one of the biggest private patrons of human embryonic stem cell research - medical technology that many scientists believe can someday cure a wide range of ailments, including diabetes....   Court Rejects New Zealand-Qantas Alliance WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- New Zealand's High Court on Monday rejected a proposed alliance between the country's flag carrier and Australian rival airline Qantas in a deal that Air New Zealand had claimed was critical to its survival....

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