Archive for January 2008

The Iowa Department of Economic Development today announced it has awarded 60 Iowa Student Internship Program awards to 26 Iowa companies bioscience, advanced manufacturing and information technology. The goal of the program is to link …

U.S. stocks have rebounded slightly after the Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 350 points in early morning trading after the Federal Reserve announced that it had cut the federal funds rate three-fourths of …

Des Moines-based Meredith Corp. reported today fiscal 2008 second-quarter net earnings of $36 million, or 75 cents per share, compared with $35 million, or 72 cents per share, in the year-ago period. Excluding a 2-cent-per-share …

Stock prices plummeted worldwide and demand for safe-haven bonds and currencies climbed as investors worried that a weakening U.S. economy would drag others down with it, Reuters reported.

MSCI’s main world stock index, a benchmark …

Sears Holdings Corp., owner of the Sears and Kmart retail chains and Kenmore appliances, will reorganize into separate business units after a year of falling sales and diminishing profits, Bloomberg reported.

Sears will designate a …

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