


Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks slid, erasing most of the market’s 2009 gain, as a private report showed employers cut more jobs than estimated in December and companies from Alcoa Inc. to Intel Corp. spurred concern the profit outlook is ...
Read more...First it was Wall Street that was in trouble. Then Main Street . Now, the nightmare is approaching Elm Street. Even in my relatively placid little corner of the world — a leafy, middle-class, middle-American neighborhood with two and three-bedroom ...
Read more...STOWE, Vt. - In ski parlance, "bailing out" is a controlled fall to avoid dangerous terrain. Here, in this mountain paradise, the phrase has taken on new meaning. Few people beyond this town's evergreen-shrouded borders know that much of this ...
Read more...Chart shows market share since the 1980s; 3 c x 3 3/8 in; 146 mm x 85.725 mm AP Photo New cars sit in a Chrysler lot in Peabody, Mass. Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008. Chrysler's 53 percent drop in December sales was far worse than Ford Motor Co. or General ...
Read more...Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- As the new owner of $172.5 billion of preferred shares and warrants in 208 U.S. financial institutions, the Treasury Department hasn’t succeeded in thawing frozen credit markets, leaving taxpayers propping up an industry that ...
Read more...Sorry, but if these dog's were roaming the neighborhood and being agressive, they needed to die. This guy just saved you $60 per dog. I don't care about all the bleeding-heart self proclaimed pit bull lovers who come out of the woodwork every time ...
Read more...Jan. 7, 2009 5:02 p.m. | The owners of a West Allis apartment building have agreed to pay $18,000 to settle a discrimination complaint by a woman who said she was turned down as a tenant because she had two children. Kanita Brawley complained that in ...
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