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An offer from a private investor to purchase the former YWCA building was accepted Monday night.

William Hunter, president of West Des Moines-based Earlham Savings Bank, said he plans to close on the acquisition within …

The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped almost 300 points early this morning after a selloff in global markets. The Dow fell to its lowest level since Nov. 4, 2009, amid worries over the European debt …

A team of researchers at the University of Iowa recently won the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Cup challenge, where they used data mining to organize a database of information to better predict the side effects …

For the third straight month, consumer confidence has risen in America, according to numbers released Tuesday morning by the Conference Board based in New York.

The group’s confidence index increased to 63.3, up from April’s …

A new federal tax credit that will cover up to 50 percent of the cost of ground-breaking biomedical research is good news for NewLink Genetics Corp., an Ames-based biopharmaceuticals company that’s working to develop cancer …

The gloom of wealthy U.S. and Japanese investors about the prospects for the global economy in the next five years is only surpassed by the pessimism of those in Monaco, according to a survey by …

The U.S. recovery that began last year will be stronger than previously estimated, according to a survey by the National Association for Business Economics (NABE). Bloomberg reported that the economy will expand 3.2 percent this …