August 28th, 2010
David Schweikert is set to take the Republican primary in the 5th Congressional District.
As of 9:30 p.m. Tuesday night, he is well ahead of Susan Bitter Smith and Jim Ward in a U.S. House District that includes Scottsdale, Tempe and Fountain Hills.
Schweikert will take on U personal loans for bad credit.S. Rep. Harry Mitchell, D-Tempe, […]
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August 11th, 2010
Fannie Mae says that its financial condition has vastly improved over previous quarters, but the mortgage finance company still requested more government assistance.
The government-run company said Thursday it lost $1.2 billion in the second quarter, down significantly from an $11.5 billion loss in the prior quarter. Last quarter’s loss was the smallest since the […]
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August 9th, 2010
Lattice Semiconductor Corp. CEO Bruno Guilmart will leave the company next month to take a job as CEO of Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc., a Pennsylvania-based manufacturer of semiconductor equipment.
Guilmart will relocate to Singapore, which Kulicke & Soffa described as the center of the company’s global operations. In a news release, the company said other […]
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July 31st, 2010
Stocks slid Thursday, although they finished off their session lows, as investors weighed cautious comments from a regional Federal Reserve president about the health of the economy and a mix of quarterly profit reports.
The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) lost 30 points, or 0.3%, the S&P 500 (SPX) index dipped 4 points or 0.4% […]
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July 10th, 2010
About 40 executive MBA students from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University learned from state lawmakers when they participated in a two-day mock budget exercise at the Arizona Capitol.
Students played the roles of legislators and lobbyists as they tried to pass their own mock budget on the Senate floor.
Gov. Jan Brewer, […]
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June 25th, 2010
Anadarko Petroleum, a minority partner in the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico, blamed BP for "reckless" behavior, seeking to distance itself from the worst oil spill in US history.
"The mounting evidence clearly demonstrates that this tragedy was preventable and the direct result of BP’s reckless decisions and actions," Anadarko chief executive […]
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June 18th, 2010
A new report card on the travel industry finds customer satisfaction improved across five sectors, but warns they may be short-lived, particularly for airlines.
The American Customer Satisfaction Index, released by the University of Michigan Tuesday, showed airlines, restaurants, hotels, fast food and express delivery services all grew in customer satisfaction. Airline customers were 3 percent […]
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June 9th, 2010
Oil prices dropped Friday after a government report said almost all of the jobs added last month were temporary Census workers, and the euro fell to a 4-year low.
What prices are doing: Crude oil for July delivery fell $3.10, or more than 4%, to settle at $71.51 a barrel.
Oil prices rose more than 2% […]
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June 4th, 2010
The latest generation of wireless Internet service finally is arriving in Kansas City on a broad scale.
Clearwire Corp. (Nasdaq: CLWR), along with partners Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S), Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) and Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK), on Tuesday began selling the service, which uses WiMAX technology and boasts wireless download speeds comparable […]
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May 3rd, 2010
Stronger sales and tighter expense controls helped footwear maker Rocky Brands Inc. halve its loss in the first quarter, the company told investors late Thursday.
The Nelsonville-based boot maker said it lost $560,744, or 10 cents a share, for the first three months of the year, compared with a loss of $1.1 million, or 20 cents […]
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