It wasn’t the three jobs she has to work to care for her extended family, or the inability to take a vacation for the last five years. For Eloise Williams of Pontiac, the ultimate indignity came when she found a lump in her breast before she became a full-time teacher at Pontiac Northern High School.
It [...]
Prices are up and jobs are down. It’s the sign of an economy in trouble.
“Idaho’s going to mirror what’s going on with the economy nationally, and of course things are on the downturn right now, due to the housing market and the high price of fuel and all the other costs rising as a result [...]
Gov. Charlie Crist is marching into the final days of the legislative session hoping to bring home his one priority that can’t fall victim to state budget reductions.
His health insurance proposal doesn’t cost the state a cent, which means it can’t be cut by bean counters frantically looking for savings. But the issue has forced [...]
Dawn Knoeller listened intently while jotting notes and asking questions about insurance.
Knoeller, Business Liability Insurance a self-employed math tutor from Ventura, was among the estimated 200 people who attended the Third Annual Business Resource Expo on Friday at Four Points by Sheraton in Ventura.
About 30 agencies provided information to local businesses and potential entrepreneurs on [...]
The Massachusetts state pension fund cannot and should not start a bond insurer, executive director Michael Travaglini said on Monday.
Travaglini, who oversees the $52 billion Pension Reserves Investment Management Board, Business Property Insurance said pension funds should not be in the business of insuring securities as California Treasurer Bill Lockyer has proposed.
Lockyer last month said [...]
Their multimillion-dollar mansion in Alpharetta has so many giant paintings on the walls and statues in the halls that it has the feel of a hifalutin’ art museum — not the home of a guy whose 92-year-old family business wound up on the auction block.
The massive house sits in the middle of a cul-de-sac in [...]
Exporters are savouring the gains they will reap from the sweeping tariff cuts in the Free Trade Agreement with China Group Dental Insurance.
Across the business sector there are forecasts of soaring sales in the world’s fastest growing economy as New Zealand’s products become cheaper for Chinese consumers.
About 35 percent of New Zealand’s exports will become [...]
U.S. stocks rallied in the final 30
minutes of trading, helping the market post its second straight
weekly gain, as speculation bond insurer Ambac Financial Group
Inc. may be rescued overcame concern bank earnings will falter.
American International Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase Co.
led the [...]
Democratic presidential candidates
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama skirmished over how to deal
with a new regime in Cuba and their approach to expanding health
insurance coverage during a debate last night in Texas.
Obama said he would meet with new Cuban leader Raul Castro
without preconditions, [...]
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 [...]
