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Senate Panel Backs Airline Exemption From EU Carbon Rule
A U.S. Senate panel approved legislation that would exempt Delta Air Lines Inc. (DAL), American Airlines' parent AMR Corp. (AAMRQ) and other carriers from European Union greenhouse-gas limits the companies say would cost them more than $3.1 billion ...
A Big Bet on Warehouses in China
By KRIS HUDSON And JAMES T. AREDDY. With demand from Chinese consumers ballooning for clothes, appliances, furniture and thousands of other items, Jeffrey Schwartz is making big bets on the warehouses needed to store and distribute all those ...
FedEx, AutoZone need help to upset second-round favorites in Social Madness
Memphis' corporate heavyweights have moved on to the second round of the national Social Madness by Capital One Spark Business tournament, but both face uphill battles in their latest matches.
Amtrak Shifts Strategy From Begging for Money to Thinking Big
Amtrak Shifts Strategy From Begging for Money to Thinking Big. By Jeff Plungis - 2012-07-31T04:01:00Z. Amtrak, the corporation created by Congress when private industry abandoned U.S.
Indicated Dividend Yield Ranking for the S&P 500 by Industry
The table below ranks indicated dividend yields of companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index by industry as of today. The yield is calculated by taking the latest declared dividend, annualized and divided by the stock price.
The Social Madness run for Chicks, Chat and Change ends
The Social Madness run for Chicks, Chat and Change has come to an end. Chicks, Chat and Change, the winner of the small-business category in the Triad, has been booted out of the national contest after facing stiff competition from OverstockAds.
Postal Service to Miss $5.5 Billion Payment to US Treasury
The U.S. Postal Service affirmed it won't make a required $5.5 billion payment due tomorrow to the U.S. Treasury for future retirees' health care, an obligation the agency said must end for it to become financially viable.
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics Recognizes Union Pacific Railroad with ...
OMAHA, Neb., July 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Union Pacific Railroad was named the 2011 Provider of the Year by Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics Vehicle Services Americas Inc. (WWL).
The Post Office Is Still Ours. The Post Office Is Dying.
The Post Office Is Still Ours. The Post Office Is Dying. By Charles P. Pierce. at 9:54AM. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty. The USPS is in trouble because Congress saddled it with an impossible debt that would effectively eliminate the institution ...
EU mergers and takeovers (July 31)
BRUSSELS, July 31 (Reuters) - The following are mergers under review by the European Commission and a brief guide to the EU merger process: APPROVALS AND WITHDRAWALS.