Independence Center gets $50,000 Anthem gift

The Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation in Missouri awarded $51,479 to Independence Center, a nonprofit agency serving St. Louis-area adults with serious and persistent mental illnesses.
The grant will fund Independence Center’s wellness coaching project to educate participants on the need for physical activity and healthier lifestyle choices. The program is called Take Charge: […]

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Dell Inc. to buy Ocarina Networks

Dell Inc. (Nasdaq: DELL) is expected to buy Silicon Valley-based hardware and software maker Ocarina Networks Inc., officials said Monday.
The Round Rock-based computer maker, which employs about 16,000 in Central Texas, said Ocarina will be rolled into its storage technology business unit, which includes enterprise array EqualLogic. The deal is expected to close this month […]

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Stocks on the rise: A sucker’s rally?

The Dow has puffed up nearly 600 points in a week on the thinnest of fumes: a short-term bounce in the euro and some amnesia about the European debt crisis.
While the advance has been a relief to U.S. investors who watched stocks plunge 12% in the previous six weeks, many market pros think the […]

A-B InBev OKs freeze on job cuts in Belgium

The world’s biggest brewer, Anheuser-Busch InBev SA, said Thursday that it has agreed to freeze planned job cuts in Belgium to get workers to drop a two-week brewery blockade causing beer shortages at supermarkets and bars.
The company and Belgian trade unions said they struck a deal that postpones the brewer’s plans to […]

Yahoo sides with Google over China cyber attack

Yahoo Inc. gave its support to rival Google Inc. Wednesday, denouncing an alleged cyber attack originating in China against Google’s network infrastructure.
"We condemn any attempts to infiltrate company networks to obtain user information," a Yahoo representative said in an e-mail statement. "We stand aligned with Google that these kinds of attacks are deeply disturbing […]

Treasury Said to Link Citigroup Sale to TARP Payback

The U.S. Treasury Department aims to hold off on selling its 34 percent stake in Citigroup Inc. until the bank and regulators agree on a broader plan to repay all obligations remaining from last year’s $45 billion government bailout, a person close to the department said.
Treasury officials are concerned that a sale now […]

Commercial property weighs on banks: Fed official

U.S. banks continue to face significant challenges, particularly from rising delinquencies in commercial real estate and commercial loans, a Federal Reserve official said on Monday.
“Credit losses at banking organizations continue to rise, and banks face risks of sizable additional credit losses given the outlook for production and employment,” said Jon Greenlee, associate director of […]

Utility generates earnings

Ontario Power Generation Inc. had a $259 million profit in its latest quarter, although the provincial Crown corporation continued to feel the impact of reduced demand for electricity.
The profit for the three months ended Sept. 30 was an improvement on the $142 million net loss for the same period of 2008.
However, OPG said […]

Kraft results to start Cadbury countdown

The clock will really start ticking on a deal to create the world’s biggest confectioner once Kraft Foods Inc reports earnings next week.
Kraft made its $16.5 billion cash and stock offer for British chocolatier Cadbury on September 7. Kraft Chief Executive Irene Rosenfeld has since held back on further moves and her waiting game […]

FDIC bank fund in the red until 2012

The government insurance fund designed to protect consumer bank deposits will likely stay in the red through 2012, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chief Sheila Bair said Wednesday.
Testifying before members of the Senate Banking Committee, the nation’s top commercial bank regulator stressed that her agency was taking immediate steps to replenish the dwindling fund. But […]