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Worldview: What mind-set will dominate Obama's visit to Russia Philadelphia Daily News | By Trudy Rubin | Inquirer Opinion Columnist When President Obama visits Moscow this week, he'll have long meetings and dinner with President Dmitry Medvedev, a 44-year-old lawyer who says he wants to advance the rule of law. | But Obama is scheduled only for a breakfast with Vladimir Putin, the fo...
Banks want a little more The News & Observer | Bounced check: $32. Stop-payment: $30. ATM charge: as high as $3. | Even now, after all those bailouts, banks never seem to tire of dipping a little deeper into your wallet. Despite the tough economic times and increased scrutiny from Washington, they are keeping most fees at record highs, and som...
Russell Indexes get adjustments Ohio | NEW YORK: Despite market losses and volatility not seen since the 1930s, the widely followed rebalancing of the Russell Indexes will result in few sector adjustments and highlights investors' wholesale, across-the-board selling of stocks the past y...
High, dry times as Prohibition era sobered Denver Denver Post | State Prohibition agents stand amid 89 confiscated moonshine stills, valued at $10,000 by law enforcement, in December 1920. (Denver Post file photo) | The colorful and long-running Smaldone crime syndicate ran the rackets in Denver and Colorado fo...
The Real Bank of America The New York Times | Atlanta Skip to next paragraph | Four writers from around the country provide snapshots of their local economies. Related Op-Ed Contributor: Fish Store Out of Water (July 5, 2009) | Op-Ed Contributor: Trading Down (July 5, 2009) | Op-Ed Contributor...
Banks want a little more The News & Observer | Bounced check: $32. Stop-payment: $30. ATM charge: as high as $3. | Even now, after all those bailouts, banks never seem to tire of dipping a little deeper into your wallet. Despite the tough economic times and increased scrutiny from Washington, t...
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World markets slide on grim US jobs report The News & Observer | HONG KONG -- Most Asian markets fell Friday as a weaker-than-expected U.S. jobs report signaled more pain ahead for the world's largest economy. European stocks also weakened in ...
World markets slide on grim US jobs report Kansas City Star Kin Cheung Floor traders work at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Friday, July 3, 2009 in Hong Kong. Asian stocks retreated Friday as a weaker-than-expected U.S. jobs report signaled m...
Losing Confidence in Marriage Wall Street Journal By KAY S. HYMOWITZ | Is marriage in the midst of the social equivalent of the financial meltdown? The first inkling -- the Bear Stearns moment, if you will -- came almost a year ag...
Jobs Report Sign of Deeper Economic Trouble The Progressive | The Federal government's jobs report for June shows the country sliding further into an already historic recession. With 467,000 jobs disappearing, bringing the official unemployment rate to 9.5 percent, wages down, and more workers than ever stuck...
Cheap is the new cool but will America stay thrifty? Business Report | New York - When Jeff Yeager's book "The Ultimate Cheapskate" came out 18 months ago, he felt like a voice crying in the wilderness telling people to ditch their cell phones, hoard their pennies and pay off the mortgage. | Now the Internet abounds w...
Post-Katrina New Orleans Fastest Growing City ABC News By PATRIK JONSSON | July 4, 2009 | Some of America's fastest-growing cities -- from Round Rock, Texas, to Raleigh, N.C. -- were the last to . Now they are hoping to harness their momentum and slingshot their way out of it. Cities in Texas, North Caro...
Clerical Group Defies Leader on Disputed Iran Election The New York Times | CAIRO - The most important group of religious leaders in Iran has called the disputed presidential election and the new government illegitimate, an act of defiance against the country's supreme leader and the most public sign of a major split in the country's clerical establishment. Skip to next paragraph Related Top Reformers Admitted Plot, Iran...
Wall Street starts 3Q on high note Syracuse | (AP) - NEW YORK - Upbeat global economic reports are giving stocks a lift. | Investors are starting the third quarter on a positive note after the ADP National Employment Report said Wednesday that private sector employment fell by 473,000 in June. That was less than the 532,000 jobs shed in May. | Earlier, the market had risen on manufacturing r...
