More top stories

• Consumer confidence sinks to 16-year-plus low

• Insurer Blue Cross signs 5-year contract with ENH

• Firms more inclined to promote insiders as CEO

• United to slash 950 pilot jobs

• Whitehall Jewelers likely to sell assets

• Toyota may miss US sales target

• Electricity, cotton and natural gas running wild

• Oil prices edge higher on dollar, supply concerns

• Visa helps firms pay for ads on Facebook

• Kmart tests concepts in out-of-way corners

From today's Tribune

• Giant buys Corn Products

• Jobs cuts soar at United Airlines

• Internal Revenue Service raises mileage deduction rate

• Japan Airlines plans to test biofuel on jumbo jet

• Citigroup may make further job reductions

• Disposal giants Republic Services, Allied Waste to join in $6.07 billion deal

• Third party can seek pay-phone fees

• For Walgreens, a healthy 3rd quarter

• Reporters' notebooks

• Meeting of the minds results in merger

• Stock buyback to sweeten CME deal for Nymex

• Washington Post's top editor retiring

• Broadcom co-founder guilty on options

• RC2 wants book unit to offset toy woes

• Fed in a tricky spot on rates

• No gold, silver, bronze at China mall

From the business wire

• TVA expands bonus program to cut energy use

• DC cracks down on negligent landlords

• Boston Herald to lay off printing plant workers

• Ga. sugar refinery demolishing blasted silos

• Kroger 1Q profit rises 15 percent, shares jump

• Tips for surviving an unhappy job environment

• Fla. gov announces $1.7B sugar, Everglades deal

• OPEC President: No need to raise supply

• SKorea court overturns Lone Star verdict

• Fla. strikes $1.7B deal with Big Sugar

• Ky. diet drug fraud case deliberations to continue

• World now has 10 million millionaires, report says

• Cribs recalled after 4 children trapped

• NYSE Euronext buys 25 pct stake in Doha exchange

• Delta, Northwest pilots agree on joint contract

• US home prices tumble in April at record rate

• Dow Chemical raising prices by another 25 percent

• BG Group boosts offer for Origin Energy

• McKesson CEO Hammergren's pay jumps to $26.8M

• UPS lowers second-quarter outlook

• Service sector grew at slower pace in May

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From the tech wire

• Analysts: New Apple iPhone will cost $173 to make

• Charter drops Web tracking plans

• American Airlines set to test in-flight Web access

• Kodak to buy back $1 billion in shares