Business Stories from February 22, 2012 (Change date)
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Coal India may have to revive importsFeb 22, 2012 11:00 pm - Coal India Ltd., the world’s biggest producer of the commodity, may revive plans to import the fuel to comply with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s order to increase supp...
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China to get Disney films through YOU on DemandFeb 22, 2012 11:00 pm - SHANGHAI — Beauty and the Beast is heading to China. YOU On Demand, a major distributor of pay-per-view content in China, said Thursday it has signed an agreement with D...
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Dow flirts with 13,000 againFeb 22, 2012 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — The Dow Jones industrial average made another run at 13,000 but couldn’t quite get there. Stocks recovered from an early loss Thursday and pushed the Dow with...
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Rosemont’s Hyatt Regency gets faceliftFeb 22, 2012 11:00 pm - Rosemont’s Hyatt Regency O’Hare, 9300 Bryn Mawr Ave., is undergoing a $3.3 million renovation of its Rosemont Ballroom Complex to be completed March 3. The 15,046-squar...
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Gates to UN: World must help poor farmers moreFeb 22, 2012 11:00 pm - ROME — Current approaches to global agriculture are outdated, inefficient and don’t give small farmers in poor countries the help they really need, Bill Gates told U.N. ...
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Fuller Brush, door-to-door icon, seeks bankruptcy protectionFeb 22, 2012 11:00 pm - Fuller Brush Co., founded in 1906 and for decades known for its door-to-door salesmen, filed for bankruptcy less than two months after saying the company had “completely...
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Rate on 30-year mortgage rises to 3.95 percentFeb 22, 2012 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON — The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage jumped after standing pat for three straight weeks at record lows. But the rate stayed below 4 percent for th...
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Oil flat after four-day riseFeb 22, 2012 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — A four-day rise in oil prices has stalled following a weak report on Chinese manufacturing and lingering concerns about Greece’s bailout. The price of West Te...
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Liberty Interactive plans to split into two tracking stocksFeb 22, 2012 11:00 pm - John Malone’s Liberty Interactive Corp., the media company that owns stakes in QVC Inc., AOL Inc., Time Warner Inc. and others, said it plans to split its shares into tw...
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Unemployment aid applications stay at 4-year lowFeb 22, 2012 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON — The number of people seeking unemployment aid was unchanged last week and the four-week average of applications fell to its lowest point in four years. The ...