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Before the global meltdown, financial news was strictly for geeks and struggled to get on the news. Now, financial correspondents have become celebrities Last year, there was an unexpected knock on the front door of Robert Peston's home in Muswell Hill, north London. When he answered, Peston, who has been the BBC's business editor since 2005, was confronted by a reporter from a local news agency ...

ZURICH (REUTERS) - Bankers' bonuses are likely to to be cut in half, a Credit Suisse board member said on Sunday, adding in an interview with SonntagsZeitung newspaper that the Swiss financial sector should brace for further job cuts.

Freels became publisher in 1990; will leave the business Tuesday. Freels, an Army veteran, has spent nearly 50 years in the newspaper industry.