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METALS-London copper under $7,000 on global growth worries
ReutersSINGAPORE, April 22 (Reuters) - London copper retreated towards 18-month lows below $7,000 a tonne on Monday, as sluggish global growth tempers industrial demand and erodes investor appetite for metals. FUNDAMENTALS * Three-month copper on the London...Tags: Mutual Funds, Metal and Mineral, Finance, Metal, Economy, Business and Finance
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Brush up on skills during Money Smart Week
South Dakotans are encouraged to brush up on money management skills during Money Smart Week April 21-28. You try to be physically healthy. Watch what you eat and exercise. But are you doing the right things to be financially healthy too? There has...Tags: Finance, Consumers, Economy, Business and Finance, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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US companies are posting more jobs but filling few
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers have more job openings than at any other time in nearly five years. That's in part because they seem in no hurry to fill them. And it helps explain why the job market remains tight and unemployment high. Even as...
Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Employment Opportunities, Ben Bernanke, Employment, Job Layoffs
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What junk sales and Chicago Fed tell us about the economy
My husband and I are buying a house today. So I sought out two experts — one owns a scrap yard in Cicero — to advise me about the timing of our purchase. Has the economy hit bottom? First, I drove to United Scrap Metal to interview...
Tags: Automotive Equipment, Manufacturing and Engineering, Federal Reserve, Industrial Production, Metal and Mineral
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Federal regulators prepare new mortgage rules while cleaning up faulty foreclosure issues
Six years after the housing bubble burst, federal regulators are trying to restore confidence in the nation's mortgage industry while continuing to remedy past ills. On Monday, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced an $8.5 billion...
Tags: Mortgages, Federal Reserve, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Economy, Business and Finance, Politics
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Land prices soar across the Corn Belt
In recent weeks we have seen a flurry of reports of record or near-record cropland prices across the corn belt. On Thursday, October 25, 2012, an 80.47 tract of land in Iowa sold for $21,900/acre. Earlier in that week, another parcel of prime Iowa...Tags: Arable Farming, Global Change, Money and Monetary Policy, Global Warming, Economy, Business and Finance
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Midwest farmland values gain as record crop prices boost demand
CHICAGO -- Farmland values in five Midwest states rose 13 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier as record corn and soybean prices spurred demand from farmers and investors, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago said on Nov. 15. Higher commodity...Tags: Arable Farming, Money and Monetary Policy, Finance, Banking, Economy, Business and Finance
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Lehigh men's basketball news, notes
The Varsity BlogLehigh men’s basketball seniors Gabe Knutson and C.J. McCollum are candidates for the Senior CLASS Award. An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School ®, the award focuses on the total student-athlete and encourages... -
Accuride wants to speed up closing of Elkhart's Gunite plant
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's manufacturing industry has seen its recovery stall, and experts predict things will get worse as many of the state's largest companies feel the effects the European financial crisis and slowing growth in China. The U....
Tags: Caterpillar Inc., Layoffs and Downsizing, Ball State University, Accuride Corporation, Labor Markets
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Mortgage servicers dropped the ball, study says
A new study on the Home Affordable Modification Program estimates that 800,000 foreclosures could have been prevented if large mortgage servicers had been better equipped to deal with the crush of troubled homeowners who needed help. The report comes...Tags: Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Mortgages, Services and Shopping, Financial and Business Services, Barack Obama
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MarksJarvis: Stocks anticipate Fed help
We're back to the familiar pattern. Your investments probably drifted lower last week — not based on the underlying economy or business, but rather on second-guessing what the Federal Reserve and central bankers in Europe might have up their...
Tags: CNBC (tv network), Deere and Company, Europe, Federal Reserve, Finance
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Report: Chicago cutting jobless rate faster than other big cities
Though Chicago continues to suffer from higher-than-average unemployment, the city cut its jobless rate at a faster pace than the nation's other large cities, according to a report to be released Wednesday morning. The analysis was done by University...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, Chicago Mayor, White House, Barack Obama, Labor Markets
Apr 21, 2013
|Story| Reuters
Apr 19, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Apr 10, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Mar 27, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Jan 8, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Nov 30, 2012
|Story| Aberdeen News
Nov 23, 2012
|Story| Aberdeen News
Nov 1, 2012
| Allentown Morning Call
Nov 4, 2012
|Story| AP Broadcast
Sep 20, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Aug 26, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Jul 18, 2012
|Story| Chicago Tribune
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