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Seattle Post-Intelligencer | 2 hours 27 minutes ago
KB Toys gift cards will expire Sunday, according to the Washington Attorney General's Office. Legal counsel for KB Toys Inc. has told the attorney general that the company is liquidating its stores and will not accept gift cards or store credit after Sunday. Pittsfield, Mass.-based KB Toys stores and KB Toys.com are separate businesses, and store gift cards cannot be spent online.... (more)
Leighton Writedowns Slash Profit 60%; Forecast Cut (Update1)
Bloomberg | 4 hours 55 minutes ago
By Jason Scott and Shani Raja ... (more)
Australia shares at 2-month high; banks lead - Forbes.com
Forbes | 7 hours 28 minutes ago
SYDNEY, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Australian shares rose 1.8 percent on Tuesday to a near two-month high as high dividend yielding stocks such as banks and Telstra Corp Ltd lured investors, but Leighton Holdings Ltd fell after cutting... (more)
Australia Stocks: Leighton Holdings, Santos, Woodside Petroleum
Bloomberg | 7 hours 40 minutes ago
By Shani Raja... (more)
Leighton says asset writedown to hurt H1 profit
Australian, The | 8 hours 10 minutes ago
LEIGHTON Holdings will book $170 million in after-tax charges in its first fiscal half due to the global financial crisis.... (more)
Weyerhaeuser names Williamson as new non-executive chairman
Seattle Times, The | 13 hours 43 minutes ago
Weyerhaeuser said today that its board has elected Charles Williamson as non-executive chairman. Williamson, 60, will replace Chairman Steven Rogel, 65, who will retire April 15. Rogel retired as chief executive last April after reaching the mandatory retirement age for senior executives at the Federal Way-based timber, packaging and real estate company.... (more)
STOCKS NEWS UK SMALL-Balfour Beatty rises as Citi upgrades - Forbes.com
Forbes | 16 hours 20 minutes ago
STOCKS NEWS Reuters Results diary Europe Real-time Equity News Article Controlsemail... (more)
Westinghouse, Progress Energy Sign EPC Contract for Two AP1000 Nuclear Plants - Press Releases: PR Newswire: Utilities - SunHerald.com
Sun Herald (Biloxi-Gulfport, Miss.), The | 17 hours 5 minutes ago
- Third U.S. EPC Contract - Commercial Operation to Begin in 2016 PITTSBURGH, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company today announced that it and its partner The Shaw Group Inc.'s (NYSE: SGR) Power Group have signed an Engineering, Procurement and Construction contract (EPC) with Progress Energy Florida, a subsidiary of Progress Energy (NYSE: PGN), to provide two Westinghouse AP1000(TM) nuclear power units at its Levy County, Florida site.... (more)
Kathleen Klink given full term on parks board
Cincinnati Enquirer, The | 19 hours 35 minutes ago
BUTLER CO. -- Kathleen Klink has been appointed to a full term on the Butler County MetroParks Board of Park Commissioners.... (more)
$700M Resort Gears Up for March Opening
GlobeSt.com | 20 hours 15 minutes ago
When the project was approved in 2006, the resort that will open in March was expected to be much larger and it was expected to grow quickly. The first phase was slated to include 1,000 hotel rooms, 135,000 square feet of casino space, and 100,000 square feet of convention space, and a second phase was expected to add an additional 1,000 hotel rooms, a retail center and 2,000 condominium units in multiple mid-rise towers. Overall, the development site has been entitled for 6,000 hotel, condo ...... (more)
India s Futures Rise in Singapore After Rate Cut, Stimulus Plan
Bloomberg | 1 day 2 hours 59 minutes ago
By Pooja Thakur ... (more)
Recycling Today Magazine » Indiana Suspends Funding for Recycling Programs
Recycling Today | 1 day 3 hours 32 minutes ago
The Indiana Department of Environmental Management announced it is temporarily suspending its state-funded grant and loan programs for business and local government recycling and pollution prevention projects. These loan and grant programs require local government and businesses to put up matching dollars, which may not be feasible at this time because of the economy. State grant and loan programs temporarily suspended include: Waste Tire grants, Recycling grants, Pollution Prevention gra...... (more)
Bechtel Rebuilds Its Computer Network from Scratch
BusinessWeek | 1 day 5 hours 29 minutes ago
The construction giant's chief information officer tells how input from Google, Amazon, and Salesforce.com helped him reconstruct his IT system... (more)
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