Constellation Energy Group’s top executive, Mayo Shattuck III, received total compensation valued at $5.7 million in 2008, according to Associated Press calculations of data filed with regulators Wednesday.

Developing countries are being hit harder by the global financial crisis than industrialized nations and need urgent and unprecedented help to cope with it, the Group of 24 countries said Friday.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is expected to outline the Obama administration’s efforts to clean up the U.S. banking system during meetings Friday with finance ministers from the Group of Seven nations, a department official said.

Alaska Air Group Inc., parent of Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air, says it narrowed its first-quarter loss and will start charging for a first checked bag like other most other airlines.

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi says he wants to move this summer’s Group of Eight summit to earthquake-stricken L’Aquila from Sardinia to both save money and provide the region with an economic boost.

Alaska Air Group Inc., parent of Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air, reports first-quarter results on Thursday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period.

T. Rowe Price Group’s first-quarter profit tumbled by more than two-thirds, and the investment manager is responding by cutting 288 jobs.

An attorney representing the family of a man who died during the riots before Group of 20 summit said Friday he suffered from an abdominal hemorrhage _ not a heart attack, as was first thought.

European stock markets fell Wednesday despite earlier gains in Asia amid ongoing pessimism surrounding the Group of 20 summit of world leaders and concerns about the future of U.S. carmakers General Motors Corp. and Chrysler.

Trading firm Knight Capital Group Inc. said Friday trading volume increased in February both in terms of average trades executed and the dollar value of those trades.