Dun & Bradstreet, the world's leading business information and business ratings provider, has assigned Qatar a D&B Country Risk Indicator of DB2a for the month of November 2008, indicating that Qatar, despite the current global economic crisis, remains a stable place for business.

Steve Inskeep has the Last Word in business.

Arizona State University is getting $5.3 million to strengthen its business journalism offerings and with the economy making headlines every day, the timing couldn't be better, said journalism officials.

SEREMBAN, Nov 20 (Bernama) -- Employers, especially food outlet owners, in future might face the risk of losing their business licences if they are caught harbouring illegal immigrants or employing foreign workers who do not have work permits.

Cameron Goss, the president of Goss Suzuki of Rivergate, got a $650,000 loan late last year from the U.S. Small Business Administration to help renovate his car dealership at a cost of about $1 million.

An East Valley adult-oriented business has been issued a zoning violation for holes in the partitioned stalls inside its video arcade.

Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- South African ports are preparing for an influx of ships because of an escalation of piracy off the coast of east Africa, Business Day said, citing Ravi Naicker, harbor master for Cape Town port.

The head of The Washington Post Co.'s biggest revenue-generating business is resigning after 17 years, the company said yesterday.

It may be green, but not in the eyes of city officials. Three brothers who own the Prestige Car Wash on Pearl Street in Brockton thought that installing $20,000 worth of artificial turf would satisfy a city ordinance that requires green space between the street and the parking lot of a business.

Business and first-class air travel dropped sharply in September due to the global financial crisis, the airline industry body IATA said on Wednesday.