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Flowers, Soros, Michael Dell Team to Buy IndyMac - First Coast News
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A seven-member investor group including billionaire George Soros and Dell Inc. founder Michael Dell have agreed to purchase failed lender IndyMac Bank, one of the largest casualties of the housing bust, for $13.9 billion. IndyMac ...
Posted: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:58:00 GMT

Haitian businessman accused of $23 million Ponzi scheme - Palm Beach Interactive
A Palm Beach County businessman promised to make other Haitian-Americans rich - but instead bilked thousands of investors of $23.4 million, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday. George L. Theodule, 48, told investors he could double ...
Posted: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:56:00 GMT

Constellation Brands Reports Q3 Fiscal 2009 Results - Yahoo Finance
FAIRPORT, N.Y., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Constellation Brands, Inc. (NYSE: STZ, ASX: CBR), the world's largest wine company and a leading international producer and marketer of beverage alcohol, today reported its fiscal 2009 third quarter ...
Posted: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:01:00 GMT

Students call for strategic investments in the 2009 federal budget - CNW Group
OTTAWA, Jan. 6 /CNW Telbec/ - With the 2009 federal budget only three weeks away students across Canada are demanding that the federal government make funding for education, knowledge and innovation a priority for the year ahead. The economic ...
Posted: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:41:00 GMT

GMA orders expansion of emergency employment program - Philippine Star Online
ILIGAN CITY – President Arroyo has ordered the expansion of the administration’s emergency employment and livelihood program to create at least one million jobs for the poor by July. In her message at the start of the Cabinet meeting in her ...
Posted: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:54:00 GMT

10 reasons to be happy you live here - Myrtle Beach Online
"There's no better feeling than waking up in the morning and knowing that you're just a short distance from the beach and the ocean," said Brad Dean, president of the Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce. "We live where millions of tourists pay to visit ...
Posted: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:04:00 GMT

2009's milestones worth traveling to celebrate - St. Petersburg Times
Story Tools Look ahead in 2009 and you'll look to the past. • Every year brings noteworthy anniversaries, but this year those milestones may seem particularly momentous — and worth traveling to celebrate. Hard to believe, but it has been 500 ...
Posted: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:57:00 GMT

Year in Review - TriVallyCentral
Pluck persisted despite an ailing economy with, in one regard, the year ending as it had begun. In early January, Mayor Pat Murphy put the Grove St./Route 67 realignment project at the top of her 2008 to-do list. "Get the shovel in the ground on the ...
Posted: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:16:00 GMT

Property sector envisages an upbeat 2009 - East African Standard
However, the resilient spirit of Kenyans was seen when the industry rose from the ashes to become a significant player in the economy. There was a lot of activity in the real estate sector with the successful hosting of several property exhibitions ...
Posted: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:21:00 GMT

Robert L. Borosage - Huffingtonpost.com
Big things keep getting worse, as the Bush presidency befuddles its way through the creep of its final days. President Obama will inherit an economy in crisis, a middle class in freefall, poverty rising, festering wars, catastrophic climate changes ...
Posted: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:45:00 GMT