Archive for July 2010

Press release from Wells Fargo & Co.:

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) today announced the restructuring of its Wells Fargo Financial division, including closing its 638 Wells Fargo Financial stores across the U.S. and …

Retail sales are growing at the fastest pace in four years, a sign that U.S. consumers may be overcoming concern about unemployment and depressed home values, Bloomberg reported.

Sales probably expanded at an average monthly …

Add small-business loans to the items you can purchase at a discount from Sam’s Club.

Sam’s Club, a division of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., is testing an online program to lend $5,000 to $25,000 to qualifying …

The board of West Des Moines-based Liberty Bank has named John Rathjen as the bank’s new president and CEO. He succeeds Russell Olson, who will continue to serve as president and CEO of Liberty Banshares …

Users vacated about 1.8 million square feet of office space in the second quarter, pushing the U.S. office vacancy rate to 17.4 percent, The Wall Street Journal reported.

That’s the highest level since 1993, according …

The burst of the U.S. commercial real estate bubble may not be bad as many had expected, the president of Jones Lang LaSalle Inc.’s capital markets group said Monday.

Following the September 2008 collapse of …

David Van Ahn, owner of Heartland Investments & Insurance, LLC, was named the Small Business Champion of the Year for Iowa by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). Van Ahn received the award for …

A report released this morning by the Institute of Supply Management showing that the service sector is continuing to grow boosted stock prices and pushed the Dow Jones industrial average up 150 points.

The non-manufacturing …

Iowa Health System will use a $17.7 million federal grant to further extend its broadband health-care network throughout the state.

The grant is part of more than $71 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act …

Dr. Christi Hegstad talks about producing a healthy workforce…