February 15th, 2010
Vestas Americas on Thursday cut 114 positions, or 6 percent of its North American work force, due to sluggish demand for wind energy projects.
Vestas Americas is the Portland-based North American headquarters of Vestas Wind Systems A/S, the Randers, Denmark-based wind turbine manufacturer.
The cuts impact only 15 at the company’s Portland office, which employs around 500 […]
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February 1st, 2010
Laclede Group Inc., the owner of Missouri’s largest natural gas utility, said fiscal first-quarter profit fell 27 percent on lower margins and sales from its wholesale gas marketing unit.
Net income for the quarter ended Dec. 31 was $22.9 million, or $1.03 per share, compared with $31.3 million, or $1.41, a year earlier.
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January 26th, 2010
A 1930 Ford Model A used by bank robber John Dillinger to evade federal agents sold at auction Saturday for $165,000.
The car, sold at the Barrett-Jackson collector car auction in Scottsdale, Ariz., had a cameo role in the 2009 movie "Public Enemies" starring Johnny Depp.
This car was used in Dillinger’s 1934 escape from the […]
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January 16th, 2010
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 […]
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January 13th, 2010
The replacement of Japan’s finance minister four months into the government’s term increases concern about the commitment to rein in budget deficits, Moody’s Investors Service said.
“Japan’s fiscal strategy unknowns deepen” with the appointment of Naoto Kan last week, Thomas Byrne, senior vice president of Moody’s in Singapore, wrote in a note today.
Byrne’s […]
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December 31st, 2009
Iraqi and Iranian forces are dug in on either side of a disputed inactive oil well in the sensitive border area, with Iraqis vowing to fight if necessary to fend off another occupation of the well by Iranian soldiers.
Iraqi troops say they will defend the well, where Iranian troops raised a flag for several […]
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December 6th, 2009
When you buy travel insurance, don’t be tripped up by fine-print clauses that deny compensation when you make a claim.
Take Bill Walker and Iris Lustig. They booked a trip to London, but had to cancel a week before leaving because Lustig had a flare-up of Crohn’s disease, a chronic stomach ailment.
"She was very sick, so […]
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November 29th, 2009
Japan’s consumer prices fell at a near record pace in October, reinforcing the government’s concern that deflation will hamper the economy’s recovery from its worst postwar recession.
Prices excluding fresh food slid 2.2 percent from a year earlier after dropping a 2.3 percent in September, the statistics bureau said today in Tokyo. That matched […]
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November 26th, 2009
The number of people making initial claims for unemployment payments fell in the week ending Nov. 21, the U.S. Labor Department reported Wednesday.
The advance figure for seasonally adjusted claims was 466,000, down from 501,000 in the week ended Nov. 14, according to a news release.
The total number of U.S. citizens receiving unemployment benefits as of […]
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November 20th, 2009
Wal-Mart Stores Inc, which has already cut prices on everything from toys to turkeys to TVs to win holiday shoppers, is now reducing the price it charges for money transfers.
Through January 31, U.S. Wal-Mart stores will charge customers a $7 fee to send up to $200 anywhere in the United States or abroad. Previously, […]
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