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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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Grocery store operator Supervalu says its fiscal third quarter net loss widened due to costs related to a turnaround plan, continued high food prices and a cautious consumer.
The company is facing high food costs as well as costs related to a restructuring plan which involves closing stores, selling off some businesses and lowering debt.
The company […]
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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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Insurance giant Aon has agreed to pay more than $16 million in fines to settle charges that its subsidiaries bribed foreign government officials, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced Tuesday.
Aon will pay $14.5 million to the SEC and $1.7 million to the Department of Justice to settle alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices […]
First Solar Inc. on Wednesday cut its earnings and revenue estimates for 2011 due to weather delays and other unspecified issues with some company projects.
The Tempe, Ariz. solar manufacturer said it expects to earn between $5.75 and $6 per share on revenue of $2.8 billion to $2.9 billion in 2011. That’s down from an already […]
AT&T Inc. and the Justice Department have agreed to put off their upcoming antitrust trial over the phone company’s proposed acquisition of smaller rival T-Mobile USA while the wireless carriers determine the fate of the deal.
U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle quickly approved their motion Monday to cancel their February trial and set a Jan. […]
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Back in the winter of 2009, when the stock market crash was near its bottom, an editor at the Post-Dispatch gave up in defeat.
“I couldn’t take it any more. I sold everything,” he told me. He had sold all the stock investments in his 401(k).
That put me in a quandary. Should I tell the fellow […]
European Union “negligence” is to blame for the financial crisis roiling the continent, said Turkey’s president Friday, contrasting the EU’s malaise with his country’s economic and political dynamism.
Gul also called for a revamping of the U.N. Security Council, suggesting its permanent members no longer reflected the shift in influence from the postwar equation when the […]