Average rate for 30-year mortgages falls to 5.12%
Los Angeles Times
Profit fell to $12.3 million, or 21 cents a share, from $16.8 million, or 27 cents, last year. Excluding a benefit from an insurance settlement, net income was 14 cents a share. Analysts expected 9 cents a share. Revenue fell 5% to $1.16 bi...
Receiver Andrew Brewer has 'refreshing' outlook for Northwestern ...
Chicago Tribune
Brewer used that trait during one of his summer jobs, taking care of three 8-year-old kids from the North Shore. Brewer called it "baby sitting," which will suffice given that few nannies go 6 feet 3 inches and 215 pounds. "I took them to t...
Talked Up by CEO, AIG Climbs by 21%
Wall Street Journal
Among the Dow Jones Industrial Average's biggest gainers, Boeing rose $1.22, or 2.8%, to $44.74, as a report on manufacturing in the Philadelphia region and the Conference Board's index of leading indicators boosted sentiment surrounding in...
UPDATE 3-Tennis-Cincinnati Masters men's singles results
Reuters UK
Aug 20 (Reuters) - Cincinnati Masters men's singles third round results from the United States on Thursday (prefix denotes seeding, * new result). * 9-Gilles Simon (France) beat 8-Nikolay Davydenko (Russia) 6-7(6) 6-4 6-4 * Lleyton Hewitt (...
Records of GOP-sponsored credit card reveal lavish spending by Sansom
St. Petersburg Times
He spent $11,475 at Best Buy alone and $8,993 at Friendly Florist in Fort Walton Beach. Records show that numerous top politicians and officials with the Republican Party of Florida racked up $3.6 million in credit-card charges from January...
UPDATE 3-Venezuela economy shrinks for first time in 5 years
Reuters
The economy grew 8.4 percent in 2007, but in a sign his spend-and-nationalize model was running out of steam, it slowed to 4.8 percent last year despite an average oil price of $87 per barrel and a peak of $147. Venezuela finances were hard...
Japan Stocks Drop After U.S. Announces End of ‘Clunkers’ Plan
Bloomberg
Kobe Steel Ltd. jumped 2.8 percent after the Nikkei newspaper said it may develop technology needed to produce components for nuclear reactors. The Nikkei 225 Stock Average slid 0.8 percent to 10,302.45 as of 9:26 a.m. in Tokyo. The broader...
ShopNBC reports loss, but less than last year
Minneapolis Star Tribune
The company reported a net loss of $8.2 million, or a loss of 26 cents a share. But that performance cut in half last year's loss of $15.7 million. Shares of ValueVision Media, which operates the upscale shopping network, closed at $2.91, d...
Supersizing your weekend
Los Angeles Times
L.A.'s own B.R.A.M. starts the night. 8:30 p.m. Friday. 1717 Silverlake Blvd., L.A. $10 in advance, $12 at door. For ages 21 and older. (323) 661-4380, www.clubspaceland.com . "Neon Noise" party at Echoplex DJ Paul V. has transformed his ra...
Coalition to challenge Google Books settlement
CNET News
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Police: Two SE Houston men killed roommate
Houston Chronicle
Freddie Orlando Reyes, 27, and Hugo Salvador Lopez, 25, are charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of Turcious Villeda Marcial, 25, about 8 a.m. on Monday in the 3000 block of Golfcrest, police said. Marcial had been stabbed several time...
Six suspects sought in TSU shooting
Houston Chronicle
The shooting happened about 8:30 p.m. July 22 on the TSU campus at 3100 Cleburne during “Trae Day,” an event to celebrate the work of rapper Frazier Thompson III, better known by his stage name, Trae, with at-risk youths in Houston. Eight p...
Obama jokes about the 'book of secrets,' says family is feeling at ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
... the West Wing and, in particular, a painting of Kennedy and a ramp built for Franklin D. Roosevelt. "It gives you a real sense of history," Obama said. The president said his wife, Michelle, and their two young daughters — Malia, 11, a...
Advertising slump hurts APN News & Media
News.com.au
Earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) fell 43 per cent to $78.8 million, while revenue dropped 18.8 per cent to $520.2 million in the first half. Amongst APN's business units, Australian publishing reported an EBIT drop of 37 per cent to ...
UPDATE 2-Westpac says bad loans jump, but Q3 profit steady
Reuters
It is pretty much what we would have expected," said Tom Quarmby, banking analyst at Macquarie, noting Westpac's tier-one capital-adequacy ratio remained strong at 8.17 percent. "I remain very comfortable about Westpac's ability to operate ...