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News from everywhere on the day before the Christmas weekend.

The Pfizer board got out of control, giving the departing CEO a pay package of nearly $200 milllion.

Oil dropped to under $63 a barrel. Heating the house at Xmas may be less expensive.

Redhat and Congra, companies in vastly different industries, posted substantially improved earnings.

Qualcomm revised its earnings down for the next quarter.

Toyota set production targets that would move it ahead of GM as the largest car manufacturer in the world.

Holiday travellers were stranded by weather in London and Denver.

Home for the holidays.

Douglas A. McIntyre