Retail and Business

A memorial service is planned for 5 p.m. Saturday for business and civic leader Monroe Colston, who passed away on Tuesday.

The service will be held at Valley Evangelical Free Church, 4343 Fuller Road, West …

Rock Island, Ill.-based KJWW Engineering Consultants announced that it will open an office in Kansas City. KJWW already operates out of seven Midwestern offices, including Des Moines. It also maintains offices in Dubai in the …

Hy-Vee Inc. CEO Ric Jurgens, who will co-chair the Healthiest State initiative announced Wednesday by Gov. Terry Branstad, said he took himself out of consideration for the chairmanship of the Greater Des Moines Partnership when …

The $9.4 trillion U.S. government bond market is proving Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke matters more than Standard & Poor’s, according to a Bloomberg analysis.

Even though the United States is poised to run a …

The chances of another U.S. recession are rising, Reuters reported, according to the news organization’s latest poll.

The survey of more than 200 economists, published four years to the day after credit markets first started …

U.S. stocks staged the largest rally of the year this morning, rebounding from a rout that wiped out $1 trillion yesterday, and Treasuries fell amid speculation that the Federal Reserve may signal plans to safeguard …

HNI Corp. today declared a quarterly dividend of 23 cents per share on its common stock. The dividend will be payable on Sept. 1 to shareholders of record at the close of business on Aug. …

The productivity of U.S. workers in April through June dropped for the second consecutive quarter, pushing labor costs up from 2010’s record low, Bloomberg reported.

The measure of employee output per hour decreased at a …

Many Americans are unperturbed by the debt downgrade that sent the Dow Jones industrial average plunging, CNNMoney reported.

After Standard & Poor’s downgraded the United States’ credit rating by one notch to AA+ from AAA, …

U.S. stocks rose to start out the day, following yesterday’s drop that wiped out $1 trillion from the nation’s market value, on speculation that the Federal Reserve will act to restore confidence in financial markets, …