Business
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You've got to set your goals!
Where there are no goals, there will be no significant accomplishments. There will only be another traffic jam.
Gasoline prices should fall after Labor Day
Americans can expect gasoline prices to drop as school buses start rolling through neighborhoods across the country.
Germans wary of Google Street View
BERLIN - Germans have long harbored an obsession about protecting privacy, with memories of Nazi-era denouncements of neighbors and East German secret police s…
Sugar supply rests on USGA's shoulders
DES MOINES, Iowa - A judge's ruling halting planting of genetically modified sugar beet seeds has left growers feeling uncertain as they wait for federal offic…
Stocks drop as jobless claims rise
NEW YORK - Stocks tumbled Thursday after two disappointing economic reports renewed investors' concerns about the pace of the recovery.
Target profit rises
NEW YORK (AP) - Target Corp. is counting on driving customers into its stores in the coming months with two weapons: a 5 percent discount for its store credit-card holders and an emphasis on food.
Stocks close up slightly on retail reports
NEW YORK - Stocks ended a seesaw day with a modest gain Wednesday after investors found some pluses in retail earnings reports.
GM close to IPO?
DETROIT - General Motors Co. on Wednesday filed the first batch of paperwork required by regulators to sell stock to the public, a step that brings the automak…
Stocks higher on earnings, economic reports
NEW YORK - Investors regained some enthusiasm for stocks Tuesday, sending prices sharply higher after reports showed a slight improvement in the housing market and a big jump in industrial production.
Eli Lilly halts development of Alzheimer's drug
INDIANAPOLIS - Eli Lilly and Co. has stopped developing a potential Alzheimer's disease treatment at a time when the drugmaker is searching wide and far for new drugs to fill a large revenue hole that will form sta…
Crapo visits Transtector Systems
HAYDEN - U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo toured Transtector Systems in Hayden to learn about its involvement in the manufacture of products for the U.S. military.
Lowe's second-quarter profit rises 10 percent
NEW YORK - People bought more air conditioners and grills at Lowe's Cos. in early summer, boosting second-quarter net income 10 percent, but overall spending was hurt by hot weather and the weak economy, the home-i…
Dow mixed; investor malaise continues
NEW YORK - Stocks managed to break a four-day losing streak Monday by the slimmest of margins. Investors had no change of heart about the economy, however, and again poured money into the safety of U.S. Treasurys.
China surges past Japan as No. 2 economy
BEIJING - China has eclipsed Japan as the world's second-biggest economy after three decades of blistering growth that put overtaking the U.S. in reach within …
Tightening of the belt
The state of the economy is something nearly everybody knows, either from personal experience or just gut feeling.
Two sides to every economy - Part II
In my last editorial, you may recall that I wrote about the fact that economists rarely agree about anything. Harry Truman famously remarked, "Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, 'On the one hand…