May 5th, 2012
Billionaire Warren Buffett loves to showcase his company’s products at the annual meeting with a 200,000-square-foot exhibit hall filled with displays where Berkshire Hathaway companies like Dairy Queen and Clayton Homes sell items.
Buffett said Saturday he was feeling good despite disclosing last month that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Buffett employed the newspaper tossing […]
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April 29th, 2012
It took a while, but the Dow Jones industrial average finally gained back all its losses for the month.
On a day of conflicting signals, as investors weighed disappointing economic news against reports of higher profits at big companies, stocks inched higher. All three major indexes were up Friday, though barely.
The Dow climbed 23.69 points to […]
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April 19th, 2012
European banks could be forced to sell as much as $3.8 trillion in assets through 2013 and curb lending if governments fall short of their pledges to stem the sovereign debt crisis or face a shock their firewall can
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April 6th, 2012
Molina Healthcare of Missouri plans to lay off 119 employees by June 1, according to a notice filed with the state’s Department of Economic Development.
The planned layoffs follow the company’s loss of managed care contracts for Medicaid patients.
Molina, a losing bidder, has an office in Creve Coeur. The company has filed a lawsuit against the […]
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April 4th, 2012
China accelerated the opening of its capital markets by more than doubling the amount foreigners can invest in stocks, bonds and bank deposits as the government shifts its growth model to domestic consumption from exports.
The China Securities Regulatory Commission increased the quotas for qualified foreign institutional investors to $80 billion from $30 billion, according […]
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March 16th, 2012
The average rate in the U.S. on the 30-year fixed mortgage hovered near historic lows this week, making home-buying and refinancing more attractive to those who can qualify.
Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the U.S. rate on the 30-year loan increased to 3.92 percent. That’s up from 3.88 percent the previous week. The rate […]
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March 11th, 2012
U.S. local-government payrolls increased last month for the first time since August, easing the drag on the economy brought on by budget-cutting cities, counties and school districts.
The U.S. Labor Department reported today that local- government employment, adjusted for seasonal swings in hiring, expanded by 2,000 in February as school districts boosted hiring. State payrolls […]
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March 1st, 2012
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, signaling the worst may be over for the euro region
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February 27th, 2012
U.K. house prices held their value for a second month in February, boosted by a seasonal increase in demand and a rush to beat the expiration of a property-tax exemption, Hometrack Ltd. said.
The average cost of a home in England and Wales was unchanged from January and 1.4 percent lower than a year earlier, […]
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February 12th, 2012
This year is the last hurrah for the refund anticipation loan, a tax-season staple that consumer groups love to hate.
Bank regulators forced a couple of big banks to abandon the product after the 2010 tax season, including the one that once made 2 million loans a year through H&R Block offices. The last small bank […]
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