By DARLENE SUPERVILLE (WASHINGTON, AP) – Aiming to show he’s still focused on creating jobs, President Barack Obama is beginning a series of quick trips around the country to resurrect… Read more »
Category: Business
BofA leads banks up; S&P 500 index ekes out gain
By MATTHEW CRAFT (NEW YORK, AP) – Bank of America led a rally in big-bank stocks in mostly quiet trading Monday. Stock indexes ended little changed following a record-setting run… Read more »
PR majors practice profession on campus
Story by SHELBY FLYNN, for The Muleskinner— For public relations majors, there is an opportunity to gain experience in their desired profession while they are still in school. The Innovative… Read more »
Are you a tax cheat if you shop online tax-free?
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER (WASHINGTON, AP) – Buy anything on the Internet lately without paying sales tax? In all but a few states, you’re probably a tax cheat. That’s right, even… Read more »
Stocks surge to new highs after hiring climbs
By BERNARD CONDON (NEW YORK, AP) – Optimism about the economy swept through the stock market Friday, pushing two widely watched indexes past major milestones. After weeks of mixed signals… Read more »
Forest Service asks states to return cash
By RICHARD LARDNER (WASHINGTON, AP) – The U.S. Forest Service is in the business of preventing fires, not starting them. Yet the agency set off alarms in Congress and state… Read more »
Stocks gain after unemployment claims fall
By STEVE ROTHWELL (NEW YORK, AP) – The stock market is all about jobs this week. Stocks rose Thursday after unemployment claims fell to a five-year low. A day earlier… Read more »
SD tribe faces ultimatum on sale of massacre site
By KRISTI EATON (SIOUX FALLS, S.D., AP) – A small patch of prairie sits largely unnoticed off a desolate road in southwestern South Dakota, tucked amid gently rolling hills and… Read more »
Stocks drift mostly higher; Pfizer weighs on Dow
(NEW YORK, AP) – Stocks are drifting mostly higher on Wall Street, but poor results from Pfizer are holding down the Dow Jones industrial average. The Dow was down three… Read more »
US stocks rise, led by technology companies
(NEW YORK, AP) – Encouraging economic reports are sending stock prices higher on Wall Street. Wages and spending rose in the U.S. last month, and pending home sales hit a… Read more »