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Consumer Financial Protection Agency clears first hurdle

Despite strong Republican opposition and intense lobbying from banks and business groups, the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency survived its first major test Thursday when the House Financial Services Committee approved its creation 39 to …

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September home sales exceed expectations

Sales of existing homes in the United States rose in September to the highest level in more than two years, Bloomberg reported.

Purchases climbed 9.4 percent to a 5.57 million annual rate, exceeding the 5.35 …

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Ticker: October 23

EMC Insurance Group Inc. today reported a third-quarter operating income of $3.2 million, or 24 cents per share, compared with an operating loss of $295,000, or 2 cents per share, for the third quarter of …

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Administration plans to step up small-business lending

President Barack Obama unveiled plans Wednesday to refocus spending of the federal government’s $700 billion financial bailout away from Wall Street’s big financial institutions and toward small businesses on Main Street.

Speaking from the warehouse …

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Insurers’ antitrust exemption threatened by congressional action

As a U.S. House of Representatives committee was voting to pass a bill that strips the antitrust exemption from health and medical liability insurers yesterday, Senate Democratic leaders held a press conference to announce they …

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Ticker: Oct. 22

Tourism-generated expenditures in Iowa grew 2.2 percent in 2008, and tourism’s economic benefit to the state increased $100 million over the previous year, Iowa Tourism Office Manager Nancy Landess announced yesterday during the Iowa Tourism …

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Ticker: Oct. 21

The Greater Des Moines Partnership will honor five companies with the 2009 Economic Impact Awards and nine local companies for their business practices with the 2009 Celebrate Business! Awards at a luncheon from 11 a.m. …

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Wells Fargo reports record year-to-date net income

Wells Fargo & Co. reported record third-quarter and year-to-date net income, according to its earnings report released today. (See the full report)

Its record $3.2 billion in profits for the third quarter is up 98 …

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Country could be stimulated…again

It might not actually be called a “stimulus” by the White House, but according to a CNNMoney.com report, lawmakers are considering extending some of the measures in the $787 billion economic recovery package that was …