The home furnishings stores of The Bombay Co. Inc. are going out of business across the U.S.

  After repeated, embarrassing delays, Airbus is to deliver its first A380 superjumbo jet Monday ?a critical step for the European planemaker in its efforts to rebound from a string of troubles.

  Two wholly owned units of Cathay Financial Holding Co. have obtained approval from Chinese regulators to enter the property insurance market on the mainland, the Taiwanese company has said.

  Recent winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation:

  Direct-marketing firm Quixtar Inc., a sister company of Amway Corp., has sued 30 people who anonymously posted what it considers disparaging remarks about Quixtar in blogs and online forums and in YouTube.com videos.