Filling the physical void in offices decimated by layoffs might be an important aspect of maintaining the morale of the employees who remain.

Conventional wisdom holds that the aggregate behavior of millions of investors — or home buyers — leads to rational markets. But some of the strongest proponents of such ideas are now expressing doubts.

With President Obama preparing to reveal details of his planned overhaul of the financial regulatory system this week, a Federal Reserve Board governor urges banks to be more vigilant in managing risk.

Global economic reports continue to send mixed signals as the euro zone reports a sharp decline in industrial production during April. The indicator does not necessarily signal that the overall economy is getting worse — but that the recession “is only slowly losing its ferocity,” the Financial Times reports.

The World Health Organization has designated the swine flu outbreak a pandemic — the first global flu epidemic in 41 years.

Apple’s new $99 iPhone and the just-released Pre by smartphone-maker Palm opens new fronts in the war for market share and operating system dominance. Do these latest moves mark a tipping point?

GM has picked a former AT&T chief executive to be its chairman when the automaker emerges from bankruptcy.

Day by day, Mexico is increasingly affected by the global economic crisis. Its GDP for the first quarter of 2009 fell 8.2% from last year, and the government now expects GDP for 2009 to contract by 5.5%, compared with the previous estimate of 4%. The problem: an overdependence on the North American market. However, that same dependency might help Mexico re-emerge sooner than other Latin American countries when the worldwide recession subsides.