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Best Buy’s departed Dunn joins list of troubled CEOs
NEW YORK — Innocent until proven guilty? Maybe not if the defendant is a CEO and the jury is a company’s board of directors. Best Buy’s CEO Brian Dunn resigned this week after the retailer’s boa...
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Detroit sees Whole Foods as proof of city progress
DETROIT — A city infamous for its unemployment, decay, crime and population loss would seem an odd place for an upscale natural and organic grocery chain to plant roots, but yuppie favorite Whole F...
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China’s economic growth nears 3-year low
BEIJING — China’s declining economic growth fell to its lowest level in nearly three years in the first quarter, but analysts said it should rebound in coming months. The world’s second-biggest ...
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JOHN WRIGHT | The Sun Scott Jones, a sales professional, plugs an extension cord into a 2012 Chevrolet Volt at Country Chevrolet in Benton.
Car sales not so electric
Through March, the recovery in the American auto industry didn’t include a surge of electric car sales. In western Kentucky, electric cars such as the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf have been slow t...
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Associated Press JPMorgan Chase, the nation's biggest bank, earned more in the first three months of the year than Wall Street analysts were expecting as mortgage lending increased.
Wells Fargo beats earnings expectations
NEW YORK — Wells Fargo’s profit jumped 13 percent in the first three months of the year, thanks to strong mortgage lending and a drop in delinquent loans, the bank said Friday. Net income availa...
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Bank reports point to a healing housing market
NEW YORK — Earnings reports from two major banks Friday painted a picture of a healing housing market, with more Americans taking out mortgages, paying them on time and taking advantage of low inte...
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Associated Press President Barack Obama signs the Jumpstart our Business Startups (JOBS) Act on April 5 in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. The JOBS Act is expected to spur more funding for small businesses through rules that include a provision allowing companies to sell stock to a larger number of investors without going through the hassle and cost of registering with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
New law lets small businesses use crowdfunding
Finding investors is probably the biggest challenge that business startups and small companies face. But small businesses are looking forward to a new way of attracting investors now that President...
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Recovery threatened by runaway student loan debt
WASHINGTON — The federal student loan program seemed like a great idea back in 1965: Borrow to go to college now, pay it back later when you have a job. But many borrowers these days are close t...
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Farm land never slowed down, prices booming
While the region’s residential home sales continue to creep upward, land sales — specifically farm land —  are downright booming. “We had an auction Saturday (March 31) on farm ground that broug...
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Associated Press Relatives stand next to the coffin containing the body of 77-year-old retired pharmacist Dimitris Christoulas in Athens on Saturday. He committed suicide at a central Athens square Wednesday. In a suicide note, he claimed the financial crisis in Greece had 'destroyed' him. Hundreds attended the ceremony at an Athens cemetery.
Clash follows service for man who shot self
ATHENS, Greece — Greek protesters marching in memory of a man who killed himself over financial woes that he blamed on the government attacked a policeman in Athens on Saturday, leaving him bloodie...
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