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The majority of AAA Hawaii members are planning to take at least the same amount of vacations this summer as compared with last year, despite record gas prices and economic concerns.
A recent survey showed that 59 percent of AAA Hawaii members plan to travel the same amount this summer, while 13 percent […]
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The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded a $2.4 million grant to the N.C. Department of Commerce to assist autoworkers affected by permanent closures and layoffs.
Many of the workers also have been previously certified as eligible for Trade Adjustment Assistance, which provides financial aid and retraining to workers laid off by companies […]
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European producer-price inflation accelerated to the fastest in more than seven years in April, intensifying pressure on the European Central Bank to keep interest rates on hold.
Factory-gate prices in the euro region rose 6.1 percent from a year earlier, the most since October 2000, after increasing 5.8 percent in March, the European Union […]
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A group of Waimea physicians on the Big Island has signed a $1 million, multiyear contract with Honolulu-based information technology firm eQHIP for the community's first fully integrated electronic medical records system.
Under the three-year contract, eQHIP will furnish the North Hawaii Community Physicians, a group of about 50 doctors, with practice management, […]
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Honolulu-based Petals & Beans is reopening in a new location in June.
The flower shop and coffee bar is moving to the Hokua Building on Ala Moana Boulevard.
Co-owner Wanda Wong said the 10-year lease at its former location at the Airport Trade Center had ended. Wong said she and her husband, […]
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Omnicare Inc. said Monday that a New York-based money manager, Jana Partners LLC, has acquired a 7.3 percent stake in the company.
MarketWatch reported that the stake represents more than 8.9 million shares guaranteed cash advance.
Covington-based Omnicare (NYSE: OCR) is a provder of geriatric pharmacy services.
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The head of Boston's Federal Reserve Bank has written to subprime borrowers across New England urging them to renegotiate their current loans if their payments are too high, the Boston Globe reported.
The Boston Fed distributed the letter, written by President Eric Rosengren, through 139 community newspapers throughout the region. It encouraged subprime borrowers […]
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Malaysian Central Bank Governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz said the country's interest rates are at an “appropriate'' level to promote growth and other measures could be used to cool inflation.
“We aren't having any major issues except for rising prices that mainly emanate from rising costs and this is something that we have to […]