Tag: business
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November 20, 2009 06:05 AM EST --
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A nonprofit group's campaign to hold free medical clinics for the uninsured in three states is turning into a not-so-subtle jab at moderate Democrats to support their party's . . .
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November 20, 2009 06:05 AM EST --
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — This city did not wait for Washington's health care overhaul. Most uninsured adults here are already reaping the benefits of a government-run health care program — seeing . . .
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November 20, 2009 09:03 AM EST --
NEW YORK (AP) — Retailer Gap Inc. said its sales are improving after a tough few years, and a big advertising push this holiday season could boost sales — but analysts caution that a rebound . . .
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November 20, 2009 09:03 AM EST --
DUBLIN, Calif. (AP) — Recruitment agency Taleo Corp. said Friday a public stock offering could raise up to $131.6 million.
The Dublin, Calif., company priced an offering of 6.5 million common . . .
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November 20, 2009 09:03 AM EST --
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Legislative auditors have faulted poor financial management by school districts for allowing questionable spending of public money, including the purchase of a $91,000 tow . . .
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November 20, 2009 09:03 AM EST --
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Some of West Virginia's largest cities can soon freeze and gradually pay down their daunting pension funding shortfalls, after the House of Delegates sent Gov. Joe Manchin . . .
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November 20, 2009 09:03 AM EST --
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Shares of CSX Corp. edged down in premarket trading Friday as an analyst downgraded the railroad, saying its share price has moved too high.
Analyst John G. Larkin of Stifel, . . .
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November 20, 2009 10:03 AM EST --
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A storage tank roof that sank at a Sinclair Oil refinery earlier this year and caused Wyoming's biggest spill in decades wasn't unprecedented: A storage tank roof also sank . . .
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November 20, 2009 10:03 AM EST --
NEW YORK (AP) — Warner Chilcott PLC, which makes women's health and dermatology products, said a secondary offering of 20 million shares priced at $22.25 per share.
Late Thursday the selling stockholders, . . .
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November 20, 2009 10:03 AM EST --
HERNDON, Va. (AP) — Security company Northrop Grumman Corp. said Friday it received a training contract with the U.S. National Guard valued at $50 million over five years.
Northrop Grumman will . . .
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November 20, 2009 11:02 AM EST --
LEXINGTON, Mass. (AP) — Biotechnology company Antigenics Inc. said Friday it will not seek approval for a potential kidney cancer treatment after a European advisory committee recommended against . . .
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November 20, 2009 11:02 AM EST --
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Valero Energy says it is permanently closing its Delaware oil refinery, where 550 workers will lose their jobs.
The company said Friday it must close the Delaware City . . .
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November 20, 2009 11:02 AM EST --
SEATTLE (AP) — Biotechnology company Dendreon Corp. said Friday the Food and Drug Administration will make a regulatory decision on the potential prostate cancer vaccine Provenge by May 1.
The . . .
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November 20, 2009 11:02 AM EST --
NEW YORK (AP) — Health care company Covidien PLC said Friday the Food and Drug Administration will take longer than expected to review the potential opioid pain drug Exalgo.
The agency said it . . .
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November 20, 2009 12:02 PM EST --
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Gov. Bill Richardson's administration is proposing to overhaul Medicaid and scale back health care services to some lower-income New Mexicans to cope with a projected budget . . .
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November 20, 2009 12:02 PM EST --
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska's unemployment rate jumped to 8.9 percent last month.
State labor officials on Thursday said that's 0.6 percentage point increase over the adjusted rate of 8.3 . . .
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November 20, 2009 12:02 PM EST --
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A new study by the Meals on Wheels Association of America shows roughly six million seniors are at risk of being hungry.
The charity says in the study that poverty also correlates . . .
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November 20, 2009 12:02 PM EST --
HARLEYSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Met-Pro Corp., which makes pollution control technologies, said Friday its third-quarter profit plunged two-thirds on weak markets, surprising Wall Street.
Net income . . .
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November 20, 2009 01:02 PM EST --
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas' unemployment rate inched up to 8.3 percent in October while the state bucked a yearlong trend by adding jobs, officials said Friday.
The state's jobless rate rose from . . .
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November 20, 2009 01:02 PM EST --
BOSTON (AP) — The top budget official in Massachusetts says the Legislature has taken a "risky" approach by adjourning for the remainder of the year without closing a projected $125 million state . . .
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