IBT Staff Reporter

Katie Holmes' performance on July 23 will be amazing and real, her choreographer Tyce Diorio told reporters after Thursday's elimination show on So you think you can dance, People Magazine reported.

The U.S. Energy Department announced on Friday it will provide more than $448 million in Recovery Act funding to expand weatherization programs in thirteen states, and more than $141 million to support energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in six states.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Friday proposed clamping down on dealers in freewheeling markets for derivatives, the little-understood, complex securities that helped create a crisis in U.S. and world financial markets.

A new General Motors emerged from bankruptcy protection on Friday -- far more quickly than most industry-watchers had expected -- as a leaner automaker pledging to win back American consumers and pay back taxpayers.

Cyber attacks slowing U.S. and South Korean websites could enter a new phase on Friday by attacking personal computers and wiping out hard disks, a South Korean government agency and web security firm said.

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Cisco Systems Inc said on Friday it was not in a new round of layoffs in response to an analyst report referring to 2,000 job cuts underway.

Real estate research site Trulia.com says 24.6 percent of current homes on the market in the United States as of July 1, have had at least one price cut, totaling $27.1 billion in reductions.

Lax lending standards alone did not bring about the housing bubble, according to a study by the New York Federal Reserve, challenging the widely held view of the origins of the collapse in home prices.

Most Americans still consider having enough money for downpayment and closing costs to be the biggest obstacles to buying a home

Some Americans are swapping homes for motels as the ranks of the homeless swell during the recession, crowding out shelters and forcing cities and states across the country to find new types of housing.

The Obama administration is asking the largest mortgage finance companies to quicken the pace of modifying home loans and so help more troubled borrowers avoid foreclosure.

Property investors are turning to the student accommodation sector as a would-be phoenix rising from the ashes of the UK real estate market, promising growth in returns and size for at least the next few years.

President Barack Obama made headlines on Friday after a photo of him at the G8 summit apparently showed the president looking at a junior delegate from Brazil Mayora Tavares.

Direct investments in European commercial real estate fell 42 percent in the first half of 2009, compared with the final six months of 2008, with buyers held back by a lack of bank lending, a report said on Friday.

Stocks fell on Friday, with the Dow industrials and the S&P 500 set for their fourth weekly drop, after Chevron's warning about its second-quarter results prompted investors to sell some energy shares.

American International Group Inc. is reportedly consulting with the Obama administration about its plans to pay $235 million in retention bonuses to employees at the AIG's financial products unit. The insurance giant's plans are now being presented before White House compensation czar, Kenneth R. Feinberg.

Armed with a computer, an internet connection and his own intellect Ahmed Al-Omran is one of a few Saudi bloggers trying to push for change and make themselves heard in the conservative Gulf Arab monarchy.

The U.S. Federal Reserve on Friday said that continued improvements in financial market conditions had lowered demand for many of its emergency liquidity programs.

U.S. consumer sentiment wilted in early July to the weakest since March, when confidence in the financial sector and economy were at a low ebb, the Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers showed on Friday.

U.S. consumer sentiment wilted in early July to the weakest since March, when confidence in the financial sector and economy were at a low ebb, the Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers showed on Friday.

Progressive Corp (PGR.N), one of the largest U.S. auto insurers, posted its first quarterly profit increase since 2006 on Friday as premiums and investment performance improved and it paid out a smaller percentage of revenue to cover claims.

U.S. President Barack Obama now is facing serious challenges over dealing with the settlement issues between Israel and Palestine.

Ford Motor Co (F.N) is focused on cash management with the economy still a major concern rather than the competitive positions of its U.S. rivals who have gone through bankruptcy, Ford's chief financial officer said on Thursday.

General Motors and its dealers will test a partnership with eBay Inc in California that allows customers to bid on new vehicles or buy them at a predetermined price online, the automaker said on Friday.

he International Energy Agency forecasted global oil demand will increase by 1.4 million barrels per day or 1.7 percent to 85.2 million barrels per day in 2010.Crude oil fell below $60 to $59.52 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange Friday. Vestas Wind Systems announced Friday it has received two orders to deliver, install and commission a total of 38 wind turbines for two Chinese projects.

A new General Motors emerged from bankruptcy protection on Friday -- far more quickly than most industry-watchers had expected -- as a leaner automaker pledging to win back American consumers and pay back taxpayers.

The world's most powerful countries have injected momentum into long-running negotiations over a new global free trade pact by setting a 2010 deadline.