AP - High gasoline prices have dramatically changed Americans' views on energy and the environment with more people now viewing oil drilling and new power plants as a greater priority than energy conservation than they did five months ago, according to a new survey.

AP - Each week, Ira Cooper opens a letter from another supplier with the same message as the last: We're raising our prices, effective immediately. We can't tell you how long the new prices will last.

Reuters - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Tuesday said the United States and Germany agreed that a breakthrough in the Doha round of trade talks would help control world food price inflation, but high oil prices required longer-term solutions.

Reuters - Soaring commodity costs are denting manufacturing activity in Asia and Europe and the outlook looks bleak as new orders drop off in the face of rising prices, surveys showed on Tuesday.

AP - The Federal Reserve has auctioned another $75 billion in loans to squeezed banks to help them overcome credit problems and announced it will provide a fresh batch of the loans this month.

Reuters - U.S. factory activity expanded unexpectedly in June but inflation pressures soared, according to a report released

Reuters - Manufacturing expanded in June for the first time in five months, helped by a weak dollar, but inflation pressures soared to their highest since the stagflation-ravaged 1970s, according to a report that highlighted the bind facing policy-makers.

AP - General Motors Corp. outsells Toyota Motor Corp. in June to retain its traditional U.S. sales lead, even though GM says its sales dropped 18.2 percent for the month.

AP - Construction spending fell in May for the 11th time in the past year as a continuing slump in housing offset strength in nonresidential building.

AP - Each week, Ira Cooper opens a letter from another supplier with the same message as the last: We're raising our prices, effective immediately. We can't tell you how long the new prices will last.

Reuters - The Dow and S&P 500 were little changed on Monday on the final trading day of the second quarter as record oil boosted energy shares, offsetting weak financial stocks amid nagging concerns of further credit losses.

Reuters - The U.S. economy continues to bump along at a slow level of growth but has probably not fallen into recession, a series of regional purchasing managers' reports suggested on Monday.

Reuters - Chrysler LLC will shut its St Louis minivan plant, cutting production of its top-selling vehicle and 2,400 factory jobs in a sign of the automaker's troubles with a market reeling from record gas prices.