March 12th, 2010
ST. LOUIS — Pinnacle Entertainment blinked.
After eight months of staring down powerful Missouri regulators over the fate of the President Casino, the Las Vegas-based gaming company agreed Wednesday to close the ailing downtown riverboat by July 1.
The move comes as a surprise, one that could have broad implications for St. Louis’ $1 […]
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March 8th, 2010
New Zealand manufacturing sales increased the most in more than seven years in the fourth quarter, led by higher production in the meat industry.
Sales volumes adjusted to remove inflation rose 3.1 percent from the previous three months, when they fell a revised 1.7 percent, Statistics New Zealand said in a statement in Wellington […]
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March 6th, 2010
General Motors has recalled 1.3 million Chevrolet and Pontiac models in North America for power steering failures that are tied to 14 crashes and one injury in the United States, the company said Tuesday.
The recall affects 2005-2010 Chevrolet Cobalt and 2007-2010 Pontiac G5 models sold in the United States, 2005-2006 Pontiac Pursuit vehicles […]
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March 4th, 2010
Malaysia’s government-linked companies and businessmen are being pressed to boost spending at home amid concern that more money is being invested abroad than flowing into the country.
Fresh ideas to stimulate investment may be included in the government’s so-called New Economic Model, International Trade and Industry Minister Mustapa Mohamed said in an interview on […]
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February 21st, 2010
There’s one safety feature that Toyota could have had in its cars for years that would have stopped many, perhaps even most, cases of unintended acceleration — it’s called ‘brake override.’
Toyota has been saying for several weeks that it will add the feature to all of its new cars, and singled out the technology […]
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February 16th, 2010
BankAtlantic Bancorp on Friday filed a prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise up to $75 million through a stock offering.
The Fort Lauderdale-based banking company (NYSE: BBX) said it would use the money – should it decide to proceed with the offering – to repurchase its debt at a discount. In January, BankAtlantic […]
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February 10th, 2010
Auto giant Toyota is expected to recall almost 300,000 Prius vehicles worldwide, ending several days of speculation about the much-embraced and honored hybrid.
Japan’s Kyodo News agency says the automaker will recall 100,000 hybrids in the U.S. and another 170,000 in Japan. The recall would affect only those Prius models that arrived at dealerships starting in […]
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February 6th, 2010
President Barack Obama’s politics may be drawing inspiration from an unlikely source: Ronald Reagan.
The late Republican president may become Democrat Obama’s most relevant role model as the U.S. economic and political climate mirrors Reagan’s first term, which began in 1981.
While Republicans suffered losses in the congressional elections of 1982, the economy began […]
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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 5th, 2010
South Korea’s exports increased at the fastest pace in 17 months, adding to signs that Asia’s fourth-largest economy is recovering from the global recession.
Overseasshipments gained 33.7 percent in December from a year earlier to $36.2 billion, the Ministry of Knowledge Economy said today. That was more than the median 27.9 percent forecast in […]
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