Barrington Hills Business
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HSBC profit more than doubles to $6.8 billionAug 01, 2010 11:00 pm - LONDON -- British bank HSBC Holdings PLC said Monday that its first-half net profit more than doubled to $6.76 billion as provisions for bad loans in the U.S. fell by ne...
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AT&T, Verizon plan to turn your phone into a credit cardAug 01, 2010 11:00 pm - AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. mobile carriers, are planning a venture to displace credit and debit cards with smartphones, posing a new threat to Visa...
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Qatar Airways to begin services to ChicagoAug 01, 2010 11:00 pm - Qatar Airways plans to start freighter services to Chicago from Aug. 18, the state-owned carrier’s first freighter operations to the U.S. The twice-a-week service...
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UAE: BlackBerry crackdown will affect visitors tooAug 01, 2010 11:00 pm - Countries say data encryption prevents monitoring
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Audit: Boeing broke accounting rules, should lose $271 mil.Aug 01, 2010 11:00 pm - Boeing Co., the No. 2 U.S. defense contractor, should lose as much as $271 million in government payments for satellite launch services because it violated federal accou...
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Allscripts-Misys said to boost loan, cut ratesAug 01, 2010 11:00 pm - Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions Inc., the Chicago-based maker of software for the health-care industry, increased the size of its term loan and cut the interest ra...
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Tribune loan agent wants hearing delayedAug 01, 2010 11:00 pm - Tribune Co. is facing the first request to delay the Aug. 30 confirmation hearing where the newspaper publisher is scheduled to seek approval of the reorganization plan....
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Nicor earns green awardJul 30, 2010 11:00 pm - The U.S. Green Building Council honored Naperville-based Nicor Gas for the building processes and materials used during the construction of the Des Plaines regional faci...
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ISM-Chicago report: Business activity expanded faster in JulyJul 30, 2010 11:00 pm - Business activity in the U.S. expanded in July at a faster pace than projected, signaling manufacturing is driving growth in the world's largest economy. The Institute f...
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CBOE's Brodsky: Exchange can grow without merger partnerJul 30, 2010 11:00 pm - CBOE Holdings Inc., operator of the largest U.S. options exchange that went public last month, has no need for a merger partner, Chief Executive Officer William Brodsky ...