NEW YORK - Wall Street closed out a difficult week with a mixed finish Friday after the Federal Reserve injected billions of dollars into the banking system to calm markets torn by worries about evaporating credit.

Glasses are lined neatly one after the other, grouped together by pattern. Wine glasses, champagne flutes, goblets, tumblers — some colored, cut or etched — fill the cabinets that line all of the walls of The Glass Urn in Mesa.

We’ve heard from many readers over the past few months who expressed anxiety and concern about what might happen to the views on these pages if our parent company, Freedom Communications, were sold.

The recent turmoil that engulfed the sub-prime mortgage market has left Valley borrowers and lenders in a lurch.

The recent turmoil that engulfed the subprime mortgage market has left Valley borrowers and lenders in a lurch.

Most homebuilders nationally say a "severe" lack of credit for housing production is threatening the new housing recovery before it has time to take hold, according to a new survey conducted by the National Association of Home Builders.

NEW YORK - Few investors expect this week's readings on the housing market and personal spending to be especially strong. But many are hoping the data shows at least a few clues that an economic rebound is on the horizon.

Syntax-Brillian said Friday it launched its Olevia brand high-definition televisions in Japan’s commercial markets.

An indoor swap meet with a more upscale ambience is planned in Mesa's west Southern Avenue corridor.

Goodbye organic millet and wheat grass. Hello organic ginseng and rice. The former Gentle Strength Cooperative at 9 E. Southern Ave. in Tempe, which became insolvent and closed in February, will reopen on May 10 as an organic and natural food grocery store.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores, the world’s largest retailer, has launched an online classified advertising site, a move that opens a broader range of shopping to Wal-Mart’s Internet customers.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - In a debut vaguely reminiscent of the dot-com boom, shares of Internet search giant Google Inc. surged in their first day of public trading Thursday as investors who avoided the company's auction-based offering readily jumped into the familiar territory of the stock market.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - In a debut vaguely reminiscent of the dot-com boom, shares of Internet search giant Google Inc. surged in their first day of public trading Thursday as investors who avoided the company's auction-based offering readily jumped into the familiar territory of the stock market.

The nation's second largest book store chain appears headed for liquidation.

The nation's second largest book store chain appears headed for liquidation.

The nation's second largest book store chain appears headed for liquidation.

The nation's second largest book store chain appears headed for liquidation.

WASHINGTON - Merrill Lynch took action last week to feed growing investor appetite for frontier markets. These are "Emerging, emerging markets," said Michael Hartnett, Merrill Lynch's chief strategist for emerging markets.

Treasury secretary Henry Paulson made it clear to Wall Street leaders after the market closed Friday that there would be no more bailouts. After engineering the fire sale of Bear Stearns and seizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Paulson said he would put no more taxpayer money at risk.

WASHINGTON - Citigroup will buy back more than $7 billion in auction-rate securities and pay $100 million in fines as part of settlements with federal and state regulators, who said the bank marketed the investments as safe despite liquidity risks.

NEW YORK - Wall Street capped a week of remarkable volatility with a big advance Thursday that left stocks higher for the week but didn't silence all of investors' concerns about the economy and the financial system.

A Chandler Organized Living store bit the dust, but a Portland, Ore.-based upstart is saving the Scottsdale version — and its staff — from the same fate.

The long-running Baptist Foundation of Arizona trial entered its last phase Monday as attorneys delivered their closing arguments in the case that has been described as Arizona’s Enron.

Brillian Corp., a Tempebased developer of highdefinition televisions, has completed its previously announced merger with Syntax Groups Corp., a City of Industry, Calif.-based producer of liquid crystal display HDTVs.