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ST. CLOUD - Gov. Tim Pawlenty gave Minnesota a sloppy Valentine on Wednesday, telling a hand-picked audience at the St. Cloud Civic Center that we have an unstoppable forward momentum toward greatness.
Greatness was the message of his State of the State Address — delivered to a small audience of invited big shots (and 75 empty […]
MUNCIE, Ind.
- It’s almost noon, almost time for what drew Carey Youngblood and his pals to the abandoned General Motors plant. Hands tucked deep in dirty jeans pockets, the factory men stomp their feet to stay warm as the countdown begins.(Ten … Nine …)Youngblood, a stocky 47-year-old […]
LOS ANGELES
- A homeless man testified Friday he was befriended by an elderly woman who is now charged with killing two other homeless men for profit and was pressured to sign documents with his personal information %26mdash; papers he now believes involved insurance policies.Jimmy Covington, 48, took […]
SHANGHAI, China
- China’s sovereign wealth fund was among the major investors in Visa Inc.’s $19.1 billion initial public offering this month, the financial magazine Caijing reported Tuesday.China Investment Corp., or CIC, invested more than $100 million as a strategic investor in the share offering, Caijing said, citing […]
Ambac Financial Group Inc., the bond
insurer in rescue talks with banks, may announce an agreement
early next week that would save its AAA credit rating and avoid
losses on $566 billion of debt, according to a person familiar
with the discussions.
Banks may invest about $3 […]
Representative Rick Renzi, a
Republican from Arizona who isnt seeking re-election, has been
indicted by a federal grand jury in an alleged scheme to profit
from a land deal.
Renzi, 49, who was first elected to the House in 2002, was
charged along with James Sandlin, 56, […]
Ambac Financial Group Inc., the bond
insurer in rescue talks with banks, soared in New York Stock
Exchange trading on optimism the company may soon reach an
agreement that would save its AAA credit rating and avoid losses
on $556 billion of securities it guarantees.
The New […]
The following U.S. companies provided their
financial outlooks this week. There were a total of 185 outlooks. The table
is sorted alphabetically by ticker symbol for each day. Estimates are
provided by Bloomberg.
TICKER FISCAL UP/
SYMBOL COMPANY […]
Hephaestus Holdings Inc., whose
subsidiaries forge parts for auto makers, emerged as the winning
bidder at an auction for the bearings business belonging to
Delphi Corp. Neither Delphi nor the buyer disclosed the price in
statements yesterday.
The hearing to approve the sale is scheduled for March […]