A Credit Squeeze for Small- Business Owners

New York Times, United States

Jeannie Macone, of Florida, is cutting back on inventory for her trinket and home decor business . In Ohio, Patrick Allen has slashed employee travel and begun paying cash for work dinners with clients of the marketing firm that he started from scratch. ...

Financing a Small Business : Bibby Financial Services Evaluates ... MarketWatch

Small businesses owners get a chance for one-on-one advice Daily Record (subscription)

Quick credit tight for small businesses United Press International

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Stanford surrenders following indictment South Florida Business ...

Bizjournals.com, NC

Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford and four others were indicted by a Houston grand jury Friday, according to a US District Court filing. Included in the indictment is Stanford, who ran Houston-based Stanford Financial Group; Laura Pendergest-Holt, ...

Video: Stanford Indicted for Alleged Ponzi Scheme The Associated Press

Allen Stanford to Appear in US Court in Virginia Bloomberg

Accused Antigua regulator gave Stanford clean bill guardian.co.uk

Bloomberg
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All business : More transparency needed from Fed

The Associated Press

Bundled in the Maiden Lane holdings is some of the debt of Extended Stay Hotels, headquartered in Spartanburg, SC The hotel chain has been battered by a plunge in spending among business travelers. But most of its woes are self-inflicted; ...

Video: Fed May Send Strong Signal Next Week - Bloomberg Bloomberg

Street Halts Three-Day Slide Forbes

Philly Fed Index paints brighter picture Examiner.com

MarketWatch
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Open for Business

Golf Channel

farmingdale, NY There wasn'ta cut at the 109th US Open on Friday. May not trim the field until the summer solstice if the weatherman has Saturday's forecast correct. But we here at Cut Line play by none of the staid rules that govern US Golf ...

Golf: The US Open Goes Digital BusinessWeek

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Poll: Most businesses faring worse Los Angeles Business from ...

Bizjournals.com, NC

The last several months have been trying for businesses big and small all across America. " Business is way down, BUT we're taking a 'Tiger Woods' approach to it: the slowdown is giving us time to re-tool our game so we can compete in ways the field ...

Stimulus funds create NC jobs The Business Journal of the Greater ...

Bizjournals.com, NC

Funds from the federal stimulus package, which was designed to create and maintain jobs, is slowly starting to trickle down in North Carolina. A total of 556 employees in the state received $356764 in payroll for working on transportation stimulus ...

Big deal for small business : City gives welcome aid to vital ...

New York Daily News, NY

The city's small businesses loom large on payday, and that's why three measures aimed at nuturing and encouraging these vital enterprises are very welcome. More than half of New York's private-sector employees earn their livelihoods at 22000 small ...

Small business getting a break from city hall Crain's New York Business

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Hal Leonard buys Shawnee Press The Business Journal of Milwaukee

Bizjournals.com, NC

Milwaukee sheet music publisher Hal Leonard Corp. said Thursday that it has purchased Shawnee Press Inc., one of the top publishers of choral and instrumental music. Shawnee is based in Nashville and since 1989 had been operating as an independent ...

Central Hudson raising rates The Business Review (Albany)

Bizjournals.com, NC

Average electric and gas bills for Central Hudson Gas & Electric Co. customers will increase $3.95 and $10.90 a month, respectively, under a plan approved Thursday by the Public Service Commission. The rate plan established by the PSC increases annual ...

Small Business Owner to Share Tips and Advice on Rebuilding After ...

MarketWatch

washington, June 18, 2009 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The SBA's June Web chat series will highlight small business owner Luis Yepez, Jr., co-owner of Mainstream Global, Inc. in Lawrence, Mass. Yepez learned that the Merrimack River had ...

Budget deal fueled by business taxes

New Hampshire Business Review, NH

In the end, the gap in the New Hampshire state budget was filled by business taxes and taxes that affect business . Under the budget hammered out by members of the Senate and House budget conference committee and adopted shortly after 1 am Friday, ...

Where's the leadership? New Hampshire Business Review

Budget conferees seek a 'fourth way' New Hampshire Business Review

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Strategies: Squeeze your way to business growth

USA Today

I mean you have to squeeze more out of the things you already do and have in your business now your products, services, customers, distribution, even employees. You've got to make from what you already have, especially in this economy. ...

Microsoft to Spend 5 to 10 % on Search business : Ballmer

TopNews United States, Arkansas

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO informed that his company is all set to spend 5 to10 % of its operating income on developing its search business . Steve, speaking at the Executives' Club of Chicago, said that Microsoft should have entered the online ...

Microsoft means business in its Google challenge GulfNews

Ballmer: $5.6 billion-11.3 billion for search over 5 years Ars Technica

Microsoft CEO Ballmer's Do-Over Wish: Search BusinessWeek

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IBM, Qwest Delivering IT Services To Mid-Sized Businesses

InformationWeek, NY

The telecom and IT software partnership is largely based on the concept that many midsize businesses want sophisticated computing services, but can't afford the capital investment. By W. David Gardner IBM and Qwest Communications International have ...

NASCAR centerpiece: Family business

Freeport Journal-Standard, IL

By NASCAR By Speedway Illustrated More than most other major sports, NASCAR is a family business . So it's no surprise that Father's Day has special meaning in the Sprint Cup garage. We mark the occasion by recalling some memorable events involving ...

Ryall: Business closures should be over

The Press West Coast, New Zealand

By michael fox - Stuff.co.nz There is unlikely to be any further business closures as a result of swine flu, the Health Minister says. Critics of the Government's containment efforts had earlier said that the use of the "quarantine model" could lead to ...

Press digest - New York Times business news - June 18

Reuters

June 18 (Reuters) - The following were the top stories in The New York Times business pages on Thursday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. * One of the criticisms against US President Barack Obama's ...

Press digest - Indian Business News - June 19 Reuters India

Press digest - New York Times business news - June 19 Interactive Investor

Press digest - Indian Business News - June 18 Reuters India

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Southwest turns 38, offers $38 fares Business First of Louisville

Bizjournals.com, NC

Southwest Airlines Co. is turning 38 years old this year and is commemorating the occasion by offering fliers $38 one-way fares on certain flights to select markets. Dallas-based Southwest (NYSE: LUV) said the fares have been customized for subscribers ...

Dallas Fed chief: Businesses ripe for Texas to steal

Dallas Morning News, TX

"We ought to be out recruiting every business we can," Fisher said. "No one wants to operate a business in California anymore. Nobody." So far, Texas has a milder recession than the rest of the country, a jobless rate well below the national average ...

Business Matchmaking: Speed-dating for contracts

CNNMoney.com

By the end of the year By the end of Obama's term The federal government aims at spend 23% of its procurement dollars with small businesses . Private-sector enterprises have their own earmarking programs; here's a look at efforts at seven major ...