3M, which announced a 13 percent drop in fourth-quarter earnings, said Friday it will cut 1,000 more jobs this year than had been previously announced.
Automobile industry experts call it ``the holy grail'' - a new type of fuel that would make gasoline obsolete and replace car fumes with a harmless mist.
Buy the company's stock, Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay urged employees a month after he was warned that the energy-trading giant faced potential accounting scandals.
Terrorist attacks, sluggish economies and mild winter weather limited growth in global demand for oil last year, and crude prices are likely to stay weak for the next few months as a result, a respected survey said Friday.
Cautious outlooks from Microsoft and IBM sent technology stocks sharply lower Friday as investors worried that an economic recovery might be further delayed.