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Fitch downgrades JPMorgan Chase
NEW YORK — Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services each downgraded their assessment of America’s biggest bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co., on Friday. The rating agencies’ move comes a day...
May 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press A drill worker listens for the bit, hundreds of feet underground, during exploratory drilling for minerals and metals in April in the mountains in the department of Trou Du Nord, Haiti.
Haiti hopes ore find will spur mining boom
TROU DU NORD, Haiti — Its capital is blighted with earthquake rubble. Its countryside is shorn of trees, chopped down for fuel. And yet, Haiti’s land may hold the key to relieving centuries of pove...
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Recent changes to the Dow Jones industrial average
Here are the most recent changes made to the 30 components of the Dow: n June 8, 2009: Ailing Citigroup and bankrupt General Motors are removed from the Dow. Travelers, a major insurer, and Cisc...
May 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press A house for sale sign stands beside a Hollywood, Fla., street as cars drive past. Hollywood Mayor Peter Bober is now using a software program that makes robocalls to businesses to discourage posting the signs.
Florida city uses robocalls to fight nuisance signs
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — The cheap signs smashed into lawns and along the corners of busy intersections are hard to miss. “We Buy Junk Cars!” ‘’Cash for Your House!” ‘’Computer Repair.” The eyesores have ...
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Apple addition to Dow would have set market record long ago
Apple is the world’s most valuable company. The Dow Jones industrial average is probably the world’s best-known stock index. So don’t they deserve each other? Consider this: If Apple had been ad...
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Recent changes to the Dow Jones industrial average
The Dow Jones industrial average has evolved continually since it was introduced in 1896. The original 12 “smokestack” companies included names like American Cotton Oil, Tennessee Coal & Iron, Nati...
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JOHN WRIGHT | The Sun Michele Luksic, a personal banker, assists a customer Thursday in the lobby of Paducah Bank's Mid City branch.
Accounting for the unbanked
Unbanked and underbanked are familiar terms to local financial institutions. Drawing in people without bank accounts, or further ingraining customers with a detached banking relationship, is a f...
May 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Medical and clinical laboratory technologists — Must have a bachelor’s degree. Will perform lab tests for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease. Competitive salary. Job order: KY0452566 ...
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Biographical info on Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson
Scott Thompson Bio AGE: 54 HOMETOWN: Boston EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree in accounting PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Hired as Yahoo CEO in January. Became president of eBay’s PayPal busines...
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Yahoo CEO faces ouster
SAN FRANCISCO — Scott Thompson’s reign as Yahoo’s CEO is in jeopardy after just four months on the job because he allowed an inaccuracy about his academic credentials to recur for years. A major...
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