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The existence of BP is at stake depending on what happens with the massive Gulf oil leak. BP has already lost almost a third of its market value in the last six weeks, even though the cost of the Gulf oil spill so far has only added up to about a billion dollars for the company.

Jeremy Hobson reports.

Ford Motor Co. says it earned almost a billion dollars in the third quarter -- a big profit considering it lost more than $150 million this time last year.

Alisa Roth reports on how the company did it.

The foundation will provide support to school districts working to develop and test methods to rate, recruit, train, assign, and assess teachers....

Faltering video chain Blockbuster is making a $1.3 billion offer for floundering electronics giant Circuit City.

And that's prompting a lot of questions -- like, where's it going to get that kind of money? Lisa Napoli reports.

Dubai's Healthcare City is shelling out half a billion dollars to build Harvard Medical School Dubai. Sean Cole grew up hanging around Harvard Square, so we figured he was the guy for this one.