October 17th, 2011
Home-improvement retailer Lowe’s Cos. said Monday it will close 20 underperforming stores in 15 states and cut 1,950 jobs in order to focus on more […]
Filed under: marketing, reports by Fred
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October 14th, 2011
A gunbattle erupted Friday between hundreds of revolutionary forces and Moammar Gadhafi supporters in the capital for the first time in more than two months […]
Filed under: economics, marketing by Fred
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October 4th, 2011
Stocks are closing with a late afternoon rally on reports that European officials were working on a plan to prop up the region’s struggling banks.
The […]
Filed under: business, technology by Fred
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October 1st, 2011
Angela Malerba, who works in public relations in Boston, carries a debit card because she likes to know when she buys something that she has […]
Filed under: finance, reports by Fred
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September 20th, 2011
Investor optimism faded in a hurry Tuesday after two days of conferences ended with no resolution to Greece’s debt crisis.
Stocks erased nearly all of their […]
Filed under: Credits, loans by Fred
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September 17th, 2011
Finland’s finance minister said she doesn’t expect the eurozone to resolve a dispute over her country’s demand for collateral for loans to Greece at a […]
Filed under: finance, marketing by Fred
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September 14th, 2011
Going to the coffee shop? Forget your wallet. Just take your mobile phone.
Bank of Montreal customers can now make payments simply by waving their mobile […]
Filed under: business, management by Fred
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September 5th, 2011
The oil spills from offshore wells operated by ConocoPhillips in China’s Bohai Bay are posing technical and political challenges for the oil company far messier […]
Filed under: USA, legal by Fred
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September 1st, 2011
McBride & Son Homes is nearly halfway through a two-month program with St. Louis building trades unions to offer new homebuyers a rebate of up […]
Filed under: USA, management by Fred
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August 23rd, 2011
China has begun inspections of all its showcase bullet train lines following a crash last month that killed 40 people, as authorities try to work […]
Filed under: lenders, online by Fred
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