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Payday lender can't charge 365% loan rate in N.H. - Portsmouth Herald
CONCORD — New Hampshire's banking commissioner has denied a payday lender's request to charge 365 percent interest on open-ended lines of credit. Banking Commissioner Peter Hildreth ruled Tuesday that South Carolina-based Advance America Cash ...
Posted: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:06:00 GMT

CAROLINE BAUM: It's foolish to write capitalism's obituary - Asbury Park Press
The year 2008 will be remembered as one that exposed the fatal flaws in free-market capitalism, sending it to an untimely death. Or will it? That capitalism's obituary is already being written suggests the enemies of the free market were waiting to ...
Posted: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:56:00 GMT

Computer security flaws close new road's toll payment system - New Zealand Herald
Internet security flaws have forced a closedown of website toll payment facilities for the Northern Gateway motorway between Orewa and Puhoi, less than three weeks before its opening date. After shutting the payment section of the $365 million toll ...
Posted: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:17:00 GMT

WJAC goes retro; Weis pauses prices - Centre Daily
If you’re tired of all the reality shows clogging the airwaves these days and yearn for the classic television hits of the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, then WJAC-TV has just the trick. Starting Friday, the station began broadcasting a Retro ...
Posted: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:30:00 GMT

Market warms up to govt package - Business Standard
The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) benchmark index, Sensex, on Monday crossed the 10,000-mark on the back of coordinated financial and monetary measures by the government and firm global markets. The rally was led by oil & gas, banking and metal stocks ...
Posted: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:58:00 GMT

Kansas Dairy Farmers Face Milk Surplus - KWCH.com
(NEWTON, Kan.) Too many houses. Too many cars. Too many cows. Industries and consumers are scaling back because of the economic downturn. That's putting more than 400 Kansas dairy farmers in a difficult position. Byron Lehman is a second generation ...
Posted: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:58:00 GMT

KL shares marginally lower - Business Times Malaysia
MALAYSIAN shares were slightly lower in the early session today on profit-taking as investors took advantage from yesterday’s gains, dealers said. After 45 minutes, the benchmark Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) declined 4.64 points to 916.02 ...
Posted: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:18:00 GMT

STOCKS NEWS ASIA-Shares to rise on recovery hopes - CNBC
WELLINGTON, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Asian shares are set to gain on Monday, as Wall Street started 2009 on a positive note, gaining on hopes the new year would better than 2008. U.S. shares rose on Friday, in defiance of further weak economic data, as ...
Posted: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:58:00 GMT

Pledge for motorists on website security - New Zealand Herald
Improvements will be made to a website for the Northern Gateway toll road between Orewa and Puhoi to assure motorists their credit card details are safe from hackers. Transport Agency registry centre manager Brett Dooley said last night he was ...
Posted: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:57:00 GMT

Resources give share market a lift - News.com.au
THE resources sector helped the Australian share market open more than one per cent higher today, despite falls on Wall Street. At 1015 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 46.4 points, or 1.26 per cent, at 3,733.4, and the broader All ...
Posted: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:27:00 GMT