Business Stories from September 16, 2011 (Change date)
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Illinois unemployment up sharply to 9.9 percentSep 16, 2011 12:00 am - CHAMPAIGN — Illinois’ unemployment rate shot up almost half a percentage point in August to 9.9 percent. It was a fourth straight month of diminishing job prospects that...
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Evicted UK Travelers forced to hit the roadSep 16, 2011 12:00 am - CRAYS HILL, England — Vivien Slattery has lived her whole life — all 16 days of it — in a tidy mobile home, one of dozens more like it on a crowded site beside green Eng...
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Kmart to award $25,000 in scholarshipsSep 16, 2011 12:00 am - Kmart is launching the Latina Smart Fund in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month. Promoted through Kmart's Latina Smart Facebook page, the Latina Smart Fund ...
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Spain reintroduces wealth tax to help cut debtsSep 16, 2011 12:00 am - MADRID — Spain’s debt-laden Socialist government voted Friday to reintroduce a wealth tax it had suspended just three years ago, arguing now that it is only fair for ric...
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Morningstar expands investment servicesSep 16, 2011 12:00 am - Morningstar Investment Services, Inc., (MIS) today introduced a suite of new strategies to Morningstar Managed Portfolios, a fee-based discretionary investment managemen...
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Judge approves $30 million sale of Olsen's MillSep 16, 2011 12:00 am - OSHKOSH, Wis. — A federal bankruptcy judge has approved a sale of assets that gives Archer Daniels Midland capacity to store 20 million bushels of grain in Wisconsin. Th...
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Stocks trade mixed as European leaders meetSep 16, 2011 12:00 am - U.S. stocks alternated between gains and losses Friday after European finance ministers pushed back a decision about how to solve the region’s debt crisis. Blackberry ma...
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Paper: London police want sources on hacking storySep 16, 2011 12:00 am - LONDON — The Guardian newspaper says London police are demanding it reveal its sources for the story that reignited Britain’s phone-hacking scandal. The paper says polic...
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