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Did Airbus really win last year's skirmish over airplane orders? Excluding cancellations and conversions, the European airplane maker claimed that it booked 1,111 firm orders, 82 more than Boeing. [READ MORE]

If history is a guide, bet on a double-dip recession for the nation, since four of the last six recessions have had two downturns. And new government numbers, revealing that the 2001 recession was deeper and longer than first thought and that the recovery may be stalling, appear to have raised the odds. [READ MORE]

The word was not good. Last December Boeing announced that, because of Asian economic woes and the slowing growth of world air travel, it would reduce airplane production from 620 this year to 490 next year and slash company employment by 48,000, 20,000 more than previously planned. [READ MORE]