1.   Before that help arrives, the league may have to lose some teams, said Alexei Zhuk, a sportswriter for the influential Kommersant business newspaper.

2.   Bundesbank council member Ernst Welteke doused lingering rate-cut hopes in remarks to a German business newspaper.

3.   Bundesbank council member Ernst Welteke doused lingering rate-cut hopes in remarks to appear in the Handelsblatt, a German business newspaper, tomorrow.

4.   During the trip, the businessman, Avigdor Ben-Gal, supposedly explored a natural gas deal, according to an Israeli business newspaper.

5.   Expansion, a Spanish business newspaper, reported last week that Mastec Inc., a U.S. cable-and-cinema company, was interested in buying Radiotronica.

6.   For his efforts, he has been named Corporate Energy Manager of the Year by the Financial Times, the London-based business newspaper.

7.   Grupo Multimedios also owns a broadcast TV station, a daily business newspaper and AM and FM radio stations.

8.   German business daily newspaper Boersen-Zeitung said the acquisition will seal a strategic alliance between Siemens and Mercury.

9.   He got into trouble recently by telling the Russian business newspaper Kommersant Daily that parliamentary elections should be postponed.

10.   Heads were scratched all over Moscow after reports of the action appeared Thursday in Vedomosti, a business newspaper.