President Bush on Friday defended recent federal intervention in the financial system as necessary to ward off a wider economic crisis and said the actions were not just a Wall Street bailout.

Commodities-stock investors basically have two options right now. Either cut your losses and head for the sidelines - not an irrational choice when commodities prices can't seem to find a floor. Or, if you can stomach the possibility of more losses, double down in the hopes of making home-run gains down the road.

Working on a drill rig in western Wyoming must be a bit like working on the surface of the moon.

Nearly every college-bound student in Wyoming can get money to attend a state school. For many, tuition can be nearly cut in half.

Even in the land of make-believe, where the meltdown on Wall Street feels a million miles away, these are tense days. While no one can say for sure how the financial crisis will affect Hollywood, a prevailing view is that the film business is relatively protected for at least a year or two, but that the TV industry which was already impacted by last winter's writers' strike could be in for a rocky ride.

The housing bust has not ended mortgage fraud - hucksters are just finding new ways to make dishonest bucks.

Nervous investors fled hedge funds as the market meltdown got underway, setting records for investor redemptions and asset declines in the third quarter, according to a report from an industry research firm issued Friday.

The price of oil rose Friday, after slumping to a 13-month low in the previous session, as investors viewed rising stock prices as a positive sign for energy demand.

There is a ride at the Six Flags Great Adventure theme park in New Jersey called the Great American Scream Machine. Rumor has it that it will soon be renamed to give it a much more frightening moniker: The Dow.

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