Like apple pie and baseball, beer has achieved favored status in the lexicon of American traditions, with US sales of the drink outstripping purchases of liquor and wine by billions of dollars.
Cie Financiere Richemont SA, the world's largest jewelry maker, said full-year profit growth slowed after the dollar's drop and a weaker economy hurt US necklace and bracelet sales.
Sales of Pfizer Inc's quit-smoking pill Chantix are plummeting in the United States after regulators tied the drug to suicides, a setback that may further depress shares that reached a 10-year low a month ago.
Honda will sell a new, improved and affordable gas-electric hybrid in the United States, Japan and Europe starting in early 2009, underlining the Japanese automaker's commitment to "green" technology, the company president said yesterday.
Billionaire Warren Buffett, halfway through a four-day European tour to drum up potential acquisition targets, is willing to consider minority investments in the right family owned businesses.
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