Business Stories from October 2, 2012 (Change date)
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Knapp named First Midwest Bank regional presidentOct 02, 2012 8:58 am - ITASCA — First Midwest Bank said David M. Knapp has joined the bank as President of the West Region. Knapp will head the bank’s newly formed West Region Commercial Bank...
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Shaw Media purchases Suburban Life newspapersOct 02, 2012 8:58 am - Shaw Media said Monday it has acquired Suburban Life, a chain of 22 weekly newspapers that circulate in the Western suburbs, from New York-based GateHouse Media. Terms o...
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Entrepreneurial organization honors sellbackyourBook.com founderOct 02, 2012 8:58 am - MONTGOMERY — Glen Nothnagel, founder and CEO of online commerce company sellbackyourbook.com, was named an honoree in the 2012 Empact100, an awards program that recogniz...
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Online channel TakePart TV: relevant, entertainingOct 02, 2012 8:02 am - NEW YORK — Hey, YouTubers! Have you danced your fill to “Gangnam Style”? Have you seen enough versions of “Call Me Maybe”? Now video grazers can check out a brand-new Yo...
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Measure of U.S. home prices rises by most in 6 yearsOct 02, 2012 8:00 am - WASHINGTON — A measure of U.S. home prices jumped 4.6 percent in August compared to a year ago, the largest year-over-year increase in more than six years. CoreLogic, a...
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Oil approaches $93 after U.S. manufacturing improvesOct 02, 2012 6:41 am - BANGKOK — The price of oil approached $93 a barrel Tuesday in Asia after a report showed U.S. manufacturing rose in September for the first time in four months. Benchmar...
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Report wants Europe’s banks to wall off risky opsOct 02, 2012 6:40 am - BRUSSELS — Europe’s banks should create a firewall between their traditional retail banking operations and more risky investment banking ones and force executives to per...
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Holiday sales seen rising 4.1 percent in 2012Oct 02, 2012 6:40 am - NEW YORK — Americans are expected to spend more during what’s traditionally the busiest shopping season of the year, but they’re not exactly ready to shop `til they drop...
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NY AG sues JPMorgan over Bear Stearns securitiesOct 02, 2012 6:39 am - NEW YORK — The New York attorney general’s office has hit JPMorgan Chase & Co. with a civil lawsuit, alleging that investment bank Bear Stearns — prior to its collapse a...
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U.S hopes buoy markets despite Spain uncertaintiesOct 02, 2012 6:38 am - LONDON — Surprise good news from the U.S. continued to shore up financial markets Tuesday despite concerns about the economic outlook of both Greece and Spain. In what w...
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