Berkshire Hathaway Profit Triples On Investment Gains
CNN Money
Premiums earned rose 9.5%, while policies in force rose 10%. Reinsurance unit General Re's operating profit more than tripled as premiums edged up 1.2%. Book value at the end of the quarter was $81,247 a Class A share, up 15% from year-end ...
Station crew prepares for close encounter with space junk
CNET News
... the International Space Station to plan on taking refuge in the lab's two three-seat Soyuz lifeboats late Friday for the expected close approach of a piece of space debris around 10:48 p.m. EST. The debris, of unknown origin, could pass...
Jobless Rate Soars Above 10 Percent, Highest in 26 Years
ABC News
New government report indicates unemployment rate close to 10 percent. The nation's employers shed 190,000 jobs from their payrolls over the last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said this morning, bringing the total number of jobs los...
IT Management Slideshow: 10 Things to Hate About the iPhone
CIO Insight
The iPhone has been a technology game-changer and a cultural icon, yet Apple, despite its design wizardry, is still a non-factor in the enterprise IT market. We scoured the Internet looking for recurring complaints about the iPhone's variou...
Pac-10 Q&A: Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh
ESPN.com
If you think Stanford plans to just give it the ole college try Saturday against Oregon, you don't know coach Jim Harbaugh and the mindset he's installed at Stanford. Notch an upset against the nation's No. 8 team? Settle for finding a sixt...
Mass Shootings In Recent Years
CBS News
March 10, 2009: Michael McLendon, 28, killed 10 people, including his mother, four other relatives and the wife and child of a local sheriff's deputy, across two rural Alabama counties. He then committed suicide. Feb. 14, 2008: Former stude...
4th body at Cleveland residence identified
CNN
Police have discovered the bodies of 10 people and skull of an 11th victim. Remains of six of the victims were found inside the home and five outside, police said. The skull was wrapped in a paper bag and stuffed into a bucket in the baseme...
Mexican national gets 10 years for meth operation
Denver Post
DURANGO, Colo.—A Mexican national has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for running a multistate methamphetamine operation out of southwest Colorado. Sergio Molinares Macias was sentenced Thursday by District Judge Jeffrey Wilson in Dura...
Praxair increases prices on gas cylinders by up to 10 percent
San Francisco Examiner
DANBURY, CONN. — Praxair Distribution Inc. on Friday said it will increase its prices on industrial, medical and specialty gas containers as much as 10 percent as of Dec. 1. The company said the hikes are being made to make up for "reduced ...
How the major stock indexes fared on Friday
Salon
Stock indexes posted a modest advance in light trading Friday after the Labor Department said the nation's unemployment rate topped 10 percent in October for the first time since 1983, but also that the pace of job losses slowed. The rise i...
Jump in Jobless Rate Puts Spotlight on Obama
NPR News
Economists had been predicting for months that the unemployment rate would soon cross the psychologically important 10 percent mark, but few expected it to happen quite so quickly. The official confirmation on Friday that unemployment jumpe...
Jobless rate tops 10 pct. for first time since '83
The Guardian
AP Economics Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) â The unemployment rate has hit double digits for the first time since 1983 â and is likely to go higher. The 10.2 percent jobless rate for October shows how weak the economy remains even though it is .....
Summary Box: Unemployment jumps to 10.2 percent
WKOW-TV.com
JOBLESSNESS JUMPS: The unemployment rate rose to 10.2 percent in October - a 26-year high - as employers continued to cut jobs. ROCKY RECOVERY: The economy grew in the third quarter, but with 15.7 million Americans unable to find work the r...
