record highs

Could it be just a year ago that jubilant investors were celebrating record highs in the stock market?

Even with oil prices at record highs, Mexico's state-run oil company is managing to lose money. But a presidential plan to fix Petroleos Mexicanos by inviting foreign help is stirring deep-seated emotions over sovereignty — and causing a paralysis that could doom America's third-largest oil supplier.

Cabbies here complain their take-home pay is thinner than it used to be. Trucking companies across the country are making drivers slow down to conserve fuel.

Filling station owners plead that really, really, the skyrocketing prices aren't their fault.