The Honolulu Star-Bulletin merged its business and local news section on Monday, and also began printing one page of stock and mutual fund listings instead of two, all to create a separate section for its classified advertising, Pacific Business News reported. Previously, classifieds had been housed in the business section.

Cutting the stock listings in half "(reflects) the move by investors to the Internet for market quotes," said the Hawaiian paper's editor, Frank Bridgewater. The paper will also add two pages of "analysis, lists and highlights" to its business section on Sunday, due to heightened interest in economic news amid the stormy financial markets around the globe.

The sectional changes will also allow the newspaper to reduce its size by about two pages each day, said Publisher Dennis Francis, Pacific Business News reported.

Other newspapers in the United States have also either cut down on printing stock listings or completely eliminated them from print editions, to save money on newsprint and printing costs, according to Pacific Business News.