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Retail sales rise slightly in March
Consumers shopping during a chilly March gave retail sales for the month a half-hearted push, with spending weighed down by the bitter weather, ongoing economic strains and an earlier Easter that shaved off a full selling day. "The deck was stacked...
Tags: Victoria's Secret, JC Penney Company Inc., E-Commerce Industry, Ross Stores Incorporated, Gap Inc.
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Protective Life To Buy AXA U.S. Life Portfolio For $1 Billion
Protective Life Corp. agreed to buy a portfolio of old policies from French insurer AXA SA's U.S. business for $1.1 billion, with the aim of squeezing more value out of them. Birmingham, Alabama-based Protective Life said the deal with Axa's Mony Life...Tags: Stamford, Insurance, Finance, Allianz AG Holding, Stock Market
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MarksJarvis: International news unsettling, but Americans remain confident
It was a maybe, maybe not week. Investors didn't think they needed to worry about sequestration; then they thought maybe they should. The outcome of Italy's elections looked foreboding for Europe's stability, but then investors thought, with time,...Tags: U.S. Congress, Unemployment, Finance, U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Italy
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Consumer confidence jumped in February on job market improvement
WASHINGTON -- Consumer confidence surged in February as the improving job market offset concerns about higher taxes and looming federal spending cuts, according to a leading private barometer. The monthly consumer sentiment index from Thomson Reuters...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Politics, Career and Workplace, Consumer Confidence, Public Finance
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Straddling the worlds of high finance and community activism
In 1972, Jim Reynolds was less than two months shy of graduating from Chicago Vocational High School, with plans of becoming a television repairman. Raised in Englewood on the city's South Side, he had been studying the trade for two years when his...
Tags: Executive Branch, Northern Trust Corporation, Business Enterprises, Chicago Loop, Politics
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Matthew Keys 'fine' after indictment on hacking charges
L.A. NOWMatthew Keys, the Thomson Reuters deputy social media editor indicted Thursday for allegedly conspiring with members of the hacking group “Anonymous” to infiltrate a Tribune site, reassured friends on Twitter that he is "fine." He said that it... -
Journalist Matthew Keys says he's 'fine' after hacking indictment
L.A. NOWThomson Reuters deputy social media editor Matthew Keys said on Twitter that he was "fine" after being indicted Thursday for allegedly conspiring with members of the hacking group “Anonymous” to infiltrate a Tribune site shortly after he was... -
Matthew Keys' computer 'dismantled' after indictment, Reuters says
L.A. NOWThomson Reuters has "dismantled" the work computer of deputy social media editor Matthew Keys after he was indicted Thursday for allegedly conspiring with members of the hacking group “Anonymous” to infiltrate a Tribune site, the wire... -
Thomson Reuters editor Matthew Keys faces hacking charges
L.A. NOWThomson Reuters deputy social media editor Matthew Keys will face charges next month after being indicted Thursday for allegedly conspiring with members of the hacking group “Anonymous” to infiltrate a Tribune site shortly after he was fired.... -
Retail sales have case of the blahs after uninspired February
Americans went about their shopping with a “meh” attitude in February, fretting about delayed tax refunds and higher payroll taxes while giving retailers a middling boost in sales. Three separate measures of same-store sales at locations...
Tags: Target Brands, Inc., Weather, Rite Aid Corp., Weather Reports, Zumiez Incorporated
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Smith & Wesson Sales Surge As Gun Curbs Loom
Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. reported a 39 percent jump in third-quarter sales as customers rushed to buy firearms to beat an anticipated tightening of U.S. gun laws after a massacre at a Connecticut elementary school. Gun sales often rise following mass...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Interior Policy, Shootings, Personal Weapon Control
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Consumer confidence drops to lowest level since 2011
WASHINGTON -- Concerns about the so-called fiscal cliff pushed consumer confidence down this month to its lowest level since late 2011, according to a widely watched private barometer. The preliminary reading for January in the survey from Thomson...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Economic Indicator, Google+, Fiscal Cliff, Consumer Confidence
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