How meddling has helped investors A USEFUL indicator of the febrile state of China’s stockmarkets for much of last year was the crowd that often packed the Shenyin & Wanguo broker in Shanghai’s People’s Square watching an electronic bulletin board lit up by the flashes of rapidly...

By JODI RUDOREN CHICAGO, July 24 — President Bush’s veto of legislation to expand federally financed embryonic stem cell research has had the unintended consequence of drawing state money into the contentious field and has highlighted the issue in election campaigns across the country. Two governors...

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG Correction Appended WASHINGTON, July 19 — President Bush on Wednesday rejected legislation to expand federally supported embryonic stem cell research, exercising his first veto while putting himself at odds with many members of his own party and what polls say is a majority of...