Latest Business News
Economic Figures
Dollar & Gold News
Board of Trade News
Personal Finance
|
|
|
|
|
|
Many parents buying condos for students
Sep 4 2005 11:48PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Robert Katz of Palm Beach is taking an unusual real-estate gamble: He's betting his 10-year-old, tennis-playing son will want to attend college in nearby Boca Raton, Fla., home of tennis champ Andy Roddick.
|
|
|
Katrina may curb economic growth into 2006
Sep 4 2005 9:36PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The physical and psychological damage caused by Hurricane Katrina is likely to reverberate across the global economy in ways that will curb growth well into 2006, economists say.
|
|
|
New barometer of Thai economy: noodles
Sep 4 2005 9:30PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - It's unlikely to replace the country's stock exchange index, but Thailand has come up with a new economic barometer _ the Mama Noodle Index.
|
|
|
Grim outlook for 4 Gulf Coast refineries
Sep 4 2005 8:17PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. refinery system struggled back Sunday from Hurricane Katrina, with two storm-shuttered facilities restarting and flows of crude oil improving enough to allow refineries in the Gulf Coast and Midwest to ramp up production.
|
|
|
Refugees from Katrina scraping for work
Sep 4 2005 8:00PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Juan Herrera's house on the Gulf coast is destroyed. He has no money, little clothing and is living with his family in a high school gymnasium. But what he needed most in Katrina's aftermath, he said, was a job.
|
|
|
Entergy to move corporate office to Miss.
Sep 4 2005 5:53PM (CT)
CLINTON, Miss. (AP) - Entergy Corporation announced Sunday that it will move its corporate offices to Mississippi during the cleanup from Hurricane Katrina.
|
|
|
Refugees from Katrina scraping for work
Sep 4 2005 4:57PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Juan Herrera's house on the Gulf coast is destroyed. He has no money, little clothing and is living with his family in a high school gymnasium. But what he needed most in Katrina's aftermath, he said, was a job.
|
|
|
Halliburton subsidiary gets Katrina deal
Sep 4 2005 3:58PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Halliburton Co. subsidiary that has come under fire for its reconstruction work in Iraq has begun tapping a $500 million Navy contract to do emergency repairs at Gulf Coast naval and Marine facilities that were battered by Hurricane Katrina.
|
|
|
Katrina's effect on markets is uncertain
Sep 4 2005 3:43PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, investors trying to figure out where Wall Street is headed are likely to find it's an impossible task.
|
|
|
Merck faces war hero in next Vioxx trial
Sep 4 2005 3:41PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Frederick "Mike" Humeston, long bothered by knee pain from a Vietnam War wound, had been taking the painkiller Vioxx for barely two months when he had a heart attack four years ago.
|
|
|
Katrina's effect on markets is uncertain
Sep 4 2005 3:39PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, investors trying to figure out where Wall Street is headed are likely to find it's an impossible task.
|
|
|
Immigrant cigar makers fading into memory
Sep 4 2005 1:57PM (CT)
UNION CITY, N.J. (AP) - Jose Suarez is one of a dying breed, his Boquilla Cigar Shop possibly the last place in Union City where Cuban-style cigars are still made by hand.
|
|
|
Some refugees take hotels over shelters
Sep 4 2005 1:55PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - David Sherman feels as if he is on a luxury vacation _ until he turns on the television inside his fancy hotel room and watches what fellow New Orleans refugees are enduring in two shelters in Dallas.
|
|
|
South Africa targeted by wine producers
Sep 4 2005 1:32PM (CT)
SOWETO, South Africa (AP) - Far from the Cape winelands' fertile valleys, black city hipsters mingled with wealthy white farmers to swill, sniff and sip from a selection of South Africa's finest vintages this weekend.
|
|
|
Report: UBS to take over Julius Baer
Sep 4 2005 10:26AM (CT)
ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) - Switzerland's banking giant UBS AG is eyeing a takeover of Julius Baer Holding AG to expand its focus on private banking on its home turf, a Swiss newspaper reported Sunday.
|
|
|
|
|
|