Business Stories from August 16, 2011 (Change date)
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PharMEDium unveils new web site with focus on patient safetyAug 16, 2011 12:00 am - LAKE FOREST — PharMEDium Services LLC launched its new website, www.pharmedium.com, which provides updates on drug shortages, patient safety and ready-to-use pharmacy co...
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Find stylish kids' clothes at Trendy TotsAug 16, 2011 12:00 am - A new children's consignment shop is open along the Randall Road corridor, helping parents save money and maybe make a little money at the same time. Trendy Tots Consign...
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Home Depot 2Q net income rises on storm repairsAug 16, 2011 12:00 am - ATLANTA — Home Depot Inc.’s second-quarter net income rose 14 percent as shoppers picked up lawn and garden products and made storm-related repairs during the summer, co...
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Allstate sues Goldman Sachs over toxic investmentsAug 16, 2011 12:00 am - Allstate Corp. is suing Goldman Sachs Group Inc., saying more than $122 million in mortgage-backed securities the insurance company bought beginning in 2006 were fraudul...
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Bain, Avista said to study bid for kinetic concepts to top ApaxAug 16, 2011 12:00 am - Bain Capital LLC and Avista Capital Partners LLC are seeking to raise financing for a takeover offer for Kinetic Concepts Inc. that would top Apax Partners LLP’s $5 bill...
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Garibaldi's closed in Carpentersville over unpaid taxesAug 16, 2011 12:00 am - The state has shut down a Carpentersville restaurant that failed to pay its sales taxes for almost a year, documents show. Garibaldi's restaurant, an Italian eatery on t...
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U.S. Company credit-default swaps climb as homebuilding slowsAug 16, 2011 12:00 am - A gauge of U.S. corporate credit risk rose after France and Germany’s leaders said they would back a financial transaction tax and as fewer homebuilding projects got sta...
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Polish centrl banker says inlation has peakedAug 16, 2011 12:00 am - Poland’s inflation rate “has peaked” and will slow in the coming months, while not sharply, Jan Winiecki, a member of the central bank’s rate-setting Monetary Policy Cou...
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Budget rate-expectaion swings since 2009 fadeAug 16, 2011 12:00 am - The biggest swings in Australian interest-rate expectations in more than two years have left bond investors concluding the central bank will hold borrowing costs to sust...
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Bachmann reports income from family farm that received u.S. AidAug 16, 2011 12:00 am - Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, a critic of federal spending, received between $5,000 and $15,000 in income last year from a family farm that has received ...