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Weis Markets in Spring Township expected to start selling beer early this year, becoming the first supermarket in Berks County to stock six-packs. But a trade group has challenged the liquor license transfer that Weis needs to sell beer for drinking at an in-store cafe and takeout.
Guess where Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao spent the first day of the New Year? Receiving visiting dignitaries with bouquets of flowers, at the party offices with party colleagues and workers, with friends and family or a function to commemorate something or the other..?
Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Macquarie Group Ltd. , Australia’s largest investment bank, said “exceptionally challenging” markets will dent profitability as it jettisons assets to weather the global credit crunch.
By Peter Ruicci THE SAULT STAR No action, but more substance. That pretty much sums up what transpired Wednesday, as the Soo Greyhounds countdown to [...]
Wednesday, January 7 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Alcoa Inc., the world's third-largest aluminum maker, said Tuesday it will cut 13,500 jobs, or 13 percent of its work force, and slash spending and output to cope with the global economic slowdown. The reductions expand on cost-cutting measures announced in October, when Alcoa reported a 52-percent decline in third quarter profit, due to sharply
Conservation groups that spent the past eight years battling the Bush administration over logging, wildlife and global warming are hoping for major changes from the Obama administration and a more strongly Democratic Congress.
Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The following companies may have unusual price changes in European trading. Stock symbols are in parentheses, and share prices are from the previous close.
Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The recession is forcing the biggest U.S. companies to acknowledge that forecasts made last year were too optimistic and that demand for products ranging from computer chips to linens is falling faster than projected.
NEW YORK, Jan 8 (Reuters) - A monthly gauge of online labor demand in the United States slid in December, suggesting job conditions worsened with the economy stuck in a recession, a private employment group said on Thursday.
A feud is simmering between Ford and Toyota over Ford's claim that its Fusion gasoline-electric hybrid out this spring will be the most fuel-efficient "midsize car" at 41 miles per gallon in town, 36 on the highway.
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