Business Stories from September 8, 2010 (Change date)
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National Lampoon CEO gets 45 months for conspiracySep 08, 2010 11:00 pm - PHILADELPHIA -- The former CEO of entertainment company National Lampoon Inc. has been sentenced in Philadelphia to nearly four years in prison in a stock price manipul...
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Stocks extend gains after drop in jobless claimsSep 08, 2010 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Stocks extended their September rally Thursday following more encouraging news on the job market. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 28 points after the...
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Ratings changed on Tellabs, Smurfit-StoneSep 08, 2010 11:00 pm - The following is a list of stocks, on which analysts changed their ratings or began coverage today. The stock symbols are listed in parentheses after the companies' name...
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Closing of Key Wester in Naperville a rare blemish on Portillo'sSep 08, 2010 11:00 pm - Amid the family photographs in his Oak Brook office, Dick Portillo keeps a framed image of the government-subsidized housing project where he lived as a child. For the o...
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BCI Aircraft's owner indicted in $50 million fraudSep 08, 2010 11:00 pm - BCI Aircraft Leasing Inc.'s owner was charged with more than a dozen additional crimes stemming from an alleged $50 million fraud scheme, six months after the U.S. first...
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Burger King buyer names future CEOSep 08, 2010 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- The investment firm buying Burger King has named a former Latin American railroad executive to be CEO of the fast-food chain after it completes its $3.26 bil...
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J&J giving $200 million for health of women, kidsSep 08, 2010 11:00 pm - TRENTON, N.J. -- Health giant Johnson & Johnson is donating about $200 million in cash and medicine to a sweeping United Nations program created to improve the health an...
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Questions, worries, arguments preceded Gulf blastSep 08, 2010 11:00 pm - Something was wrong. BP was preparing to plug its well 50 miles off the Louisiana coast, and longtime technical adviser Jesse Gagliano was running computer models to fin...
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Letter calls on Boeing to join lab clean-up dealSep 08, 2010 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- A group of local and state officials is calling on Boeing to sign an agreement committing the company to completely cleaning up the site of a partial nuc...
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Kraft taps main chocolate supplierSep 08, 2010 11:00 pm - Barry Callebaut AG, the world's largest maker of bulk chocolate, rose to the highest in more than two years in Zurich trading after saying it will become the main suppli...