Business Stories from February 20, 2013 (Change date)
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KeHE to establish sales, marketing HQ in ColoradoFeb 20, 2013 8:27 am - KeHE Distributors, of Romeoville, said it will establish its Natural Sales and Marketing Headquarters in Boulder, Colo. The new office, opening this spring, will take ad...
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Portrait of accused China cyberspy unit emergesFeb 20, 2013 8:05 am - BEIJING — Unit 61398 of the People’s Liberation Army has been recruiting computer experts for at least a decade. It has made no secret of details of community life such ...
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Office Depot to buy OfficeMax in stock dealFeb 20, 2013 8:04 am - Associated Press NEW YORK — Office Depot Inc. said Wednesday it will buy OfficeMax in an all-stock deal that would transform the office-supply retail sector. Boca Raton,...
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Oil price rises ahead of U.S. housing dataFeb 20, 2013 4:56 am - BANGKOK — The price of oil rose Wednesday ahead of the release of U.S. housing starts for January. Benchmark crude for April delivery was up 30 cents to $97.40 per barre...
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Feds, BP agree oil captured not part of penaltiesFeb 20, 2013 4:53 am - NEW ORLEANS — BP and the federal government have agreed that 34 million gallons of oil captured during the massive 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico can’t count toward ci...
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Greece’s weakened workforce starts to crackFeb 20, 2013 4:52 am - ATHENS, Greece — Looking out across a room full of reporters gathered to welcome French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday, Greece’s President Karolos Papoulias gave...
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BoE governor backed more stimulus for UK economyFeb 20, 2013 4:51 am - Associated Press LONDON — Top officials in the Bank of England expressed growing concern over Britain’s economy and came closer to backing another monetary stimulus in a...
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New Boeing contract splits engineers, tech workersFeb 20, 2013 4:49 am - SEATTLE — Boeing Co.’s engineers have accepted a new four-year contract while technical workers rejected their offer and voted to authorize a future strike. The union re...
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World stocks up as takeover talk in U.S. drives DowFeb 20, 2013 4:47 am - BANGKOK — World stock markets picked up steam Wednesday, driven higher by reports that another big corporate takeover might be in the works in the U.S. A report that maj...
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Commercial cyber spying offers rich payoffFeb 20, 2013 4:46 am - BEIJING — For state-backed cyber spies such as a Chinese military unit implicated by a U.S. security firm in a computer crime wave, hacking foreign companies can produce...