Hearings requested for Countrywide sale
St. Petersburg Times - LOS ANGELES - Consumer groups in four says asked congressional banking and finance committees on Friday to conduct hearings on Bank of America Corp.’s proposed $4.1-billion buyout of struggling mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp. Lawmakers
Financials cause slide in S&P 500 profit
Miami Herald - Business Monday | National | International | Personal Finance | Technology | Small Business | Friday Business Report Food | Health | Home It doesn’t take highly paid Wall Street analysts to figure out why corporate earnings are trending toward their worst
NY-area transit gets $153.3M in anti-terror funds
Newsday - Officials said the money also would finance greater police presence in outlying areas of the transit system, including unnamed locations in Long Island and Queens. “The lesson learned from Madrid, Mumbai and London is that the attacks were conceived
District rating lowered
Detroit News - The slide came as no surprise to Michigan school finance experts, who say many districts are spending down fund balances because say funding hasn’t kept pace with skyrocketing health care and other costs. “Corrective measures should be taken” at
For UCF recruits, image means plenty
Miami Herald - Business Monday | National | International | Personal Finance | Technology | Small Business | Friday Business Report Food | Health | Home Brynn Harvey didn’t need to go to Tempe, Ariz. When he visited the University of Central Florida last weekend, he knew he
Dolfans to celebration like ‘72 if Pats fall
Miami Herald - Business Monday | National | International | Personal Finance | Technology | Small Business | Friday Business Report Food | Health | Home By MIKE PHILLIPS mphillips@MiamiHerald.com Indiana native Roy Newman has lived in Miami since 1982, which means that for as
Government fueling social division
Miami Herald - Similarly, the government cut the department governors’ revenues in order to finance an expanded pension plan and weaken them politically and economically. The government’s closing of democratic and institutional spaces produces responses of a
Gay marriages ruled valid in N.Y.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - We finance vehicles together.” The ruling also helps ensure that the couple can make care-related decisions for each other without legal interference. Martinez suffers from multiple sclerosis, which has been in remission for 17 years. But, mostly
Super Bowl With a Smirk
Miami Herald - Business Monday | National | International | Personal Finance | Technology | Small Business | Friday Business Report Food | Health | Home G LENDALE, Ariz. — The 1972 Perfect Season Dolphins continued here Friday to walk their familiar tightrope between
Colombian official’s brothers implicated in wrongdoing
Miami Herald - Business Monday | National | International | Personal Finance | Technology | Small Business | Friday Business Report Food | Health | Home The brothers of Colombia’s attorney general allowed outlawed paramilitary fighters in 2005 to use the cars of a
Yahoo deal could pry ad market from Google’s grip
Hindustan Times - Yahoo’s network of sites on each topic from finance to news and travel, as well as ad sales deals with major newspaper sites, also open up much vast ad inventory for Microsoft. “Microsoft is in huge trouble (in online use) the only thing they have
CARLOS ORTIZ staff photographer
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Standing committee; task force on the structure of the diocese; finance and endowment committee for the Diocese of Indianapolis; group leader of Illinois flood clean-up effort; chaplain at Roger Williams College and Rhode Island Veterans Home. The Rev
Getting a home loan getting harder again
Miami Herald - The company stated it would require 5 percent cuts in the percentage of a home’s market value a lender will finance — in areas it has designated as ”declining.” If, for instance, a lender would finance 90 percent of a home’s value, requiring a 10
Nation/World briefs
Detroit News - Dana Holding Corp . emerged from nearly two years of bankruptcy, and the auto-parts maker named former General Motors Corp . finance chief John Devine as chairman and acting chief executive officer. The company announced its exit in a statement Friday
Lawmakers: Crist’s numbers might not add up
Miami Herald - Business Monday | National | International | Personal Finance | Technology | Small Business | Friday Business Report Food | Health | Home On Tuesday, Florida voters passed a property-tax cut with Gov. Charlie Crist as chief cheerleader. On Thursday, the
Exxon, Chevron post record profits
Forbes - Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., a member of the Senate Finance Committee, urged Congress to repeal tax breaks for the oil industry. ‘Congratulations to Exxon Mobil and Chevron — for reminding Americans why they cringe each time they pull into a gas station
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