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Global Brass shares climb 20% in NYSE debut
Tribune staff reporterShares of Global Brass & Copper Holdings Inc. closed up more than 20 percent Thursday on its first day of trading as a public company. Global Brass, trading on the NYSE with the ticker BRSS, priced 7 million common shares at $11 a share on Wednesday. In...Tags: Financing and Stock Offerings, Stock Market
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Second New York City pension fund unloads gun companies' stocks
ReutersNEW YORK, May 8 (Reuters) - A second New York City pension fund has sold its holdings in firearms manufacturers, following a similar decision by the city's teachers retirement system in response to last year's school shootings in Connecticut, the city's...Tags: Interior Policy, New York City, Sturm Ruger & Company Incorporated, Alliant Techsystems Inc., Politics
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REFILE-Second New York City pension fund unloads gun companies' stocks
ReutersNEW YORK, May 8 (Reuters) - A second New York City pension fund has sold its holdings in firearms manufacturers, following a similar decision by the city's teachers retirement system in response to last year's school shootings in Connecticut, the city's...Tags: Interior Policy, New York City, Alliant Techsystems Inc., Sturm Ruger & Company Incorporated, Politics
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Second New York City pension fund unloads gun stocks
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - A second New York City pension fund has sold its holdings in firearm manufacturers in response to last year's school shooting in Connecticut, the city's top financial officer said on Wednesday. The $45.7 billion New York City...Tags: Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation, Interior Policy, New York City, Sturm Ruger & Company Incorporated, Alliant Techsystems Inc.
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2nd N.Y. pension fund divests holdings in gunmakers
The $45.7 billion New York City Employees' Retirement System has divested its $16.3 million holdings in Alliant Techsystems Inc., Olin Corp,, Sturm Ruger & Co,, Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. and Forjas Taurus SA. It is the second New York City pension...
Tags: Interior Policy, New York City, Alliant Techsystems Inc., Politics, Pension and Welfare
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Ammo sales began to soar three days before election, maker says
The threat of regulation has been good for the gun business: "Get 'em while you can" is one of the best sales pitches there is. With bullets, it's no different. Sales for ammunition manufacturer Winchester began to increase three days before President...Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Interior Policy, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Gun Control, Winchester (Litchfield, Connecticut)
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States Provide Lucrative Subsidies For Gunmakers
The Hartford Courant— Governments in nine states have awarded at least $49 million in subsidies in the past five years to gun and ammunition makers whose products are under scrutiny after the school shootings in Newtown. Almost 85 percent of those tax breaks or...Tags: Interior Policy, Companies and Corporations, Parties and Movements, Nassau County, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Shares of gun maker Smith & Wesson tumble after Connecticut shooting
Stock prices of gun makers have tumbled on Wall Street amid a surge in discussion about gun control in the aftermath of the devastating shooting at a Connecticut elementary school last week. Shares of Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. fell as much as 5% on...
Tags: Interior Policy, Dianne Feinstein, Shootings, Prices, Gun Control
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SCHOOL SHOOTING: Pension funds reconsider investments in gun makers
From California to New York, teacher and public-worker retirement funds are reconsidering their investments in gun makers and confronting an uncomfortable fact: Their pensions have supported the manufacture of deadly weapons, in some cases the same type...Tags: Interior Policy, Companies and Corporations, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Investments, Shootings
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Hamden Residents Worry About Huge Toxic Cleanup
The largest residential environmental cleanup in state history has begun in the town's Newhall section, a venerable neighborhood of closely clustered former factory housing built on what amounts to a massive landfill.
The project, a decade in the...Tags: Minority Groups, Homes, Lakes and Ponds, Public Employees, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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