IBT Staff Reporter

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has decided to impose emergency rule, state-run television said on Saturday, in a move expected to put off elections due in January.

Travelers with a green lifestyle expect the same from rising numbers of environmental hotels.

The Internet search leader's broad alliance is part of the company's push into a key market.

Major U.S. carriers are profitable for first time after years of financial ruin but their share prices keep dropping.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leading mobile and telecommunications equipment provider as well's as well as world's biggest memory chipmaker on Wednesday announced that it had bought an Israel non-memory chip developer, Transchip.

Citigroup Inc Chief Executive Charles Prince plans to resign this weekend, the Wall Street Journal said, as the widening subprime mortgage crisis deals a final blow to a reign long under attack. The largest U.S. bank by assets plans to hold an emergency board meeting on Sunday, at which Prince will step down, the newspaper said on Friday, citing people familiar with the situation.

Citigroup Inc's board of directors is holding an emergency meeting this weekend, Dow Jones reported on Friday.

Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc. celebrated on Wednesday its fiftieth year car and truck sales in the United States.

Six world powers agreed on Friday to push ahead with a third round of U.N. sanctions against Iran relating to concerns about its nuclear program.

Mazda Motor Corp., the Japanese affiliate of Ford Motor Co., announced on Friday that its July-September period net profit soared 29 percent to 26.6 billion yen due to strong sales overseas.

Water poured through makeshift barriers on Friday into a Mexican city devastated by floods that has forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and caught the government off guard.

The hot real estate market brought huge windfalls for the heads of U.S. home builders. But while the boom times are over, shareholder critics say CEO paychecks are not fully reflecting the gloom.

Apartment Investment and Management Co, one of the largest U.S. apartment landlords, said on Friday that quarterly funds from operations rose 8 percent, but Florida dragged down results, and its shares fell 6.5 percent.

Employers added about twice as many new employees last month than expected, while factory orders edged up, according to government reports on Friday that implied the economy was strong enough to avoid recession. The Labor Department said 166,000 non-farm jobs were added in October, enough to support consumer incomes and spending in the approaching holiday shopping season.

The rate of foreclosures in the United States will remain higher than normal for the next 18 months as the current home loan crisis plays itself out, a senior U.S. Treasury official said on Friday.

Leading European bank stocks tumbled on Friday as worries mounted that the U.S. subprime crisis has taken a sharp turn for the worse and will force another round of hefty writedowns of bank exposures.

Japan's Casio Computer Co Ltd said it planned to launch W-CDMA cell phones in Japan sometime during the six months from October 2008 to March 2009, reaching out for a wider range of potential customers.

Hindustan Unilever Ltd, India's top consumer goods maker, said on Friday it will set up a joint venture with Smollan Holdings of South Africa to service the Indian firm's retail customers.

Shares in PetroChina, which raised $9 billion in the world's biggest initial public offer this year, are set to double their price when they list in Shanghai on Monday, buoyed by the company's position in the world's second biggest energy market.

Oil climbed more than $1 on Friday, holding near $94 a barrel as concerns about tight supplies in the run up to winter prevented a major sell-off.

The dollar dropped to a record low against the euro and a major currency basket on Friday, on persistent worries about credit and unreported losses at financial firms, which overshadowed a strong U.S. payrolls report.

Stocks fell on Friday as gains from an unexpectedly strong jobs report were quickly overwhelmed by fears of more fallout from the credit crisis.

Large U.S. banks and brokerages will suffer additional write-downs of more than $10 billion in the fourth quarter as deteriorating credit trends continue to undercut the value of subprime mortgages and related securities, a Deutsche Bank analyst said.

Chevron Corp's third-quarter earnings fell more than 25 percent, missing analyst estimates on sharply lower profits from gasoline production.

Oil's rally to record price highs has sparked a rush of bets on just how far it can go -- from workers in London's East End to Manhattan industry gurus.

The economy grew at a healthy clip in the third quarter despite a heavy weight from housing, but the strong consumer spending and export performance that held it aloft now look set to fade.

In a bid to cut its exposure to mortgage-backed securities, Merrill Lynch & Co engaged in deals with hedge funds possibly designed to delay its heavy losses, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday in its online edition, citing sources close to the matter. Shares of Merrill, which ousted Chief Executive Stan O'Neal earlier this week, fell 6 percent on Friday in early trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Shares are down 37 percent this year.

Negotiators representing Hollywood's screenwriters have recommended the union go on strike for the first time in two decades, a move that could fill U.S. television screens with reruns and reality shows.

Nokia's move into Internet operations faced headwinds on Friday, as the cell phone maker postponed the start of its gaming service due to software testing delays, and Warner pulled its songs from Nokia's music shop.