February 2nd, 2012
UPDATED at 8:40 p.m.
After months of stop-and-start negotiations, St. Louis University and Des Peres hospitals have reached a new 4-year agreement with HealthLink Inc. and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Missouri.
The deal ends the uncertainty for thousands of St. Louis area patients, especially some of those undergoing cancer and transplant patients on long-term […]
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January 18th, 2012
Markets advanced further Wednesday on hopes the International Monetary Fund would get more money and as Greece resumes discussions with private creditors to get them to agree to reduce the value of their holdings of Greek debt.
Following a breakdown of talks last Friday, investors remain nervous about what may happen, though sentiment has been shored […]
As with fast payday loans, this recently used to be the case, but competitive lenders and higher demand has taken this loan type to mainstay levels.
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January 15th, 2012
Jeff Rose, 33, a financial planner, is trying to improve his credit score — even though it’s 780, which is 69 points above the median score.
Rose, who lives in Carbondale, Ill., said he opened up a second credit card last year to establish another line of credit and help boost his score. He said he […]
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January 2nd, 2012
Iraq’s parliament speaker warned Monday that human rights violations are putting the country’s fragile democracy at risk, the latest pronouncement in a rapidly developing sectarian spat that threatens to destabilize the country after U.S. troops pulled out.
The televised comments by Osama al-Nujaifi, one of the country’s top Sunni officials, are the latest salvo in a […]
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December 29th, 2011
Companies cranked out more goods in December and pending sales of existing homes jumped in November for a second month, pointing to a pickup in U.S. economic growth as 2011 comes to a close.
The Institute for Supply Management-Chicago Inc. said today its business barometer (CHPMINDX) was little changed at 62.5 from a seven- month […]
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December 16th, 2011
A year ago, economists Ken Matheny and Gary Thayer were both optimistic about 2011. Going into 2012, they’re decidedly less so.
“You have a lot of things coming along in early 2012 that really slow the economy down,” says Matheny, of Macroeconomic Advisers in Clayton.
The biggest problems are the sovereign debt crisis in Europe and a […]
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December 5th, 2011
India’s ruling party faced a potentially damaging setback Sunday after an important coalition ally said the government had reversed its decision to throw open the country’s huge retail sector to foreign investors.
The government has not officially announced a change in its policy on foreign direct investment, but a reversal would be an embarrassment for the […]
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November 5th, 2011
Stocks slid ahead of a confidence vote for Greece’s embattled prime minister Friday. Investors are worried that the country might not go through with an austerity program needed to prevent a messy default on its debt. The Dow Jones industrial average was down almost 170 points in morning trading.
Groupon Inc. jumped 39 percent to $27.89 […]
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November 2nd, 2011
Black Friday is shaping up to be a midnight affair this year.
Macy’s and Target have already announced that they will open at midnight this year instead of at 4 a.m. on the day after Thanksgiving as they did last year. Kohl’s will also open at midnight and not at 3 a.m. as it did last […]
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October 28th, 2011
Americans’ incomes have stagnated for three straight months. Yet they boosted their spending in September 0.6 percent _ three times the increase in August.
Under normal circumstances, that would be a troubling sign for the economy.
But a closer look at Friday’s report from the Commerce Department on September income and spending suggests another possibility: Many people […]
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