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United Life Group Launches Information Portal for Burial Insurance

United Life Group today announced the launch of www.BurialInsurancePlans.com as Learning Center and Market Place for Families to research, compare or purchase Burial Insurance Plans. (PRWeb Mar 4, 2010)

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Nationwide Building Society Launches New Cash ISA Range

The Nationwide Building Society has launched a new range of Cash ISA's. (PRWeb Mar 6, 2010)

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COBRA still an option if you re fired - Boston Globe
Q. I am an employee at will for my current employer. I was recently put on a performance improvement plan that says I need to meet certain requirements or actions will be taken including termination of employment. I am working my hardest to

India-US to sign trade, investment pact on Mar 17 - Hindu Business Line
NEW DELHI: India and the US will sign a crucial agreement on March 17, laying down fresh rules and objectives for mutual trade and investment. The Commerce and Industry Minister, Mr Anand Sharma said here yesterday that he would be going to

Can we restore U.S. leadership in solar manufacturing? - Gather.com
Dow s decisions to locate these facilities here demonstrate that our investments in green, clean-energy manufacturing program designed to incentivize home retrofitting, government funding for investment in renewables. Just as hopes for home

German Manufacturing Orders Rebound on Rising Investment Demand - BusinessWeek
March 5 (Bloomberg) — German factory orders surged in January, more than cancelling the previous month s decline, boosted by Domestic orders jumped 7.1 percent, today s report showed. Basic goods orders increased 6 percent and domestic

CIBC’s Butterfield investment causes concern - Vancouver Sun
Moody’s is taking a dim view of CIBC’s investment in Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son, saying it views the credit implications of the deal as “negative.” Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce announced earlier this week that it would inject US$150-million

Minneapolis Woman Gets 12 Years $7 Million Scam - WCCO
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) A Minneapolis woman has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for orchestrating what prosecutors call a $7 million investment scam. Thirty-three-year-old Kalin Thanh Dao was also ordered at Friday’s sentencing to pay more than $7

ShopToEarth Gives Green E-Commerce Eco-Business Plan to Florida and California: Free Overview and Training Seminars

Earth-friendly company brings green news of an online business that has people earning money while saving the planet. ShopToEarth’s 2010 overviews and seminars introduce new online eco-shopping features with the Company’s Mission of harnessing the power of the Internet to improve the long-term viability of our planet. (PRWeb Mar 3, 2010)

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The Modern Royal Ballgames? Now Scouting for Athletes

Almost 500 years since their brutal suppression by the Conquistadores, the newly formed Modern Royal BallgamesTM program is scouting adventurous athletes, male and female, to play a competitive ballsport derived from the ancient Mesoamerican ballgames. At the Home Depot Center, Carson, CA, on three Saturdays, March 13, 20 & 27, 2010, from 9:00AM to noon. (PRWeb Mar 2, 2010)

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Money Crashers Personal Finance Blog to Give Away 3 Apple iPads in 2010 Online Tax Filing Giveaway

Money Crashers, a popular personal finance blog, has launched the "Money Crashers 2010 Online Tax Filing Giveaway.” Money Crashers will give away 3 Apple iPads to 3 lucky contest participants just for filing their taxes online this year and performing a mix of other contest actions. (PRWeb Mar 3, 2010)

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eCrypt Technologies Converts Debt to Equity

eCrypt settles outstanding debt with Global Capital Partners. (PRWeb Mar 1, 2010)

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Oil tumbles 2% on recovery concerns - Edmonton Journal
NEW YORK - Oil dropped more than two per cent toward investors who had hoped that rebounding economic growth would push up demand for commodities, said Carsten Fritsch, analyst at Commerzbank. The markets are reassessing the assumption that

Oracle Financial Services Announces the Latest Release of Oracle(R) FLEXCUBE Investor Servicing - TMCnet
(Market Wire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) REDWOOD SHORES, CA — (MARKET WIRE) — 02/25/10 — Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) News Facts Oracle Financial Services Software today announced the launch of Oracle FLEXCUBE Investor Servicing 9.0. Story continues below Oracle FLEXCUBE Investor Servicing 9.0 is

US Navy and Lighting Science Embark on Multi-Base LED Lighting Retrofit

Lighting Science Group Infrastructure Lighting Reduces Energy, Maintenance Costs and Carbon Footprint (PRWeb Feb 23, 2010)

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Art for Haiti Auction and Gala Held by Jerry’s Artarama

Jerry's Artarama is proud to sponsor the upcoming charitable art auction and gala benefitting Habitat for Humanity's relief efforts in Haiti. The Art Auction and Gala event will be on Saturday, April 10, 2010 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Raleigh Convention Center located in Raleigh North Carolina. (PRWeb Feb 24, 2010)

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UAE investor Fahim steps down from Portsmouth - Reuters UK
DUBAI (Reuters) - United Arab Emirates businessman Sulaiman al-Fahim resigned from his position as the non-executive chairman of debt-ravaged Premier League club Portsmouth on Monday and gave his 10 percent shareholding to the club’s supporters

Stock futures rise modestly as investors look to extend market rally - Allentown Morning Call
NEW YORK (AP) Stock futures are rising modestly as investors try to extend a market rally into a fifth straight day. Overseas markets are mixed Monday. Investors have been welcoming signs of a strengthening U.S. economy to push stocks sharply

Buffett lunch: Investment firm set for $1.7M meal with Omaha’s Oracle - InvestmentNews
The Canadian investment firm that paid $1.68 million last year to win lunch with billionaire investor Warren Buffett is about to collect its prize. The proceeds from Buffett’s annual charity lunch auctions benefit the Glide Foundation, which provides

RPT-IPO View-Fashionable clothing co faces tough IPO market - Reuters
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 19 (Reuters) - U.S. clothier Express may have a hard time selling investors on its initial public offering despite a recovering retail industry. The No. 6 U.S. specialty retail apparel brand will have to overcome investors

Stock market nears correction mode but pulls back - San Francisco Chronicle
A jump in stocks last week is a sign that the market is stabilizing after a slump that began in mid-January. The drop sent the Standard & Poor’s 500 index down 9.2 percent short of the 10 percent pullback that generally defines a correction. The

VT Won t Sacrifice Mouchel Bid If It Pays Special Dividend - BusinessWeek
Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) — VT Group Plc, seeking to repel a takeover by Babcock International Group Plc, may return 230 million pounds ($355 million) to investors and plans to pursue its own bid for Mouchel Group Plc. The board of Southampton, England

SoCal woman gets 14 years for swindling investors - San Francisco Chronicle
A San Diego County woman who swindled 40 people out of $1.8 million has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. Janet Reiswig pleaded guilty to grand theft and was sentenced on Thursday. Prosecutors say Reiswig and her husband placed newspaper ads to

Madoff Investors Should’ve Bought Corvettes - Cleveland Plain Dealer
We all wish we’d bought Microsoft stock in the 1980s. But what if you’d tucked away a 1965 Shelby roadster like the one that just sold at auction in Scottsdale, Ariz., for more than $1 million? Or garaged a pristine 1971 Dodge Challenger, which went

At the open: Investors boo Dell results - Globe and Mail
C anadian and U.S. stock market indexes moved in opposite directions on Friday morning, with investors digesting the implications of Thursday s move by the Federal Reserve to raise its discount rate. At the start of trading, the Dow Jones

Christian Singles Choose DatingGodsWay.com for Christian Dating and Have Competitors and Investors Alike Raising Eyebrows

There's a new free online dating site for Christians on the Internet. People are flocking to it like bees to honey. Is it because of the Custom Mobile App? Is it the free compatibility updates? Maybe its the the many available like minded Christian singles or the free membership. Whatever the reason, DatingGodsWay.com is raising the bar while also raising eyebrows of competitors and investors alike. (PRWeb Feb 13, 2010)

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Association for Corporate Growth Re-Ignites Economic Growth In Long Island

Speaking at the third Association for Corporate Growth (ACG New York) conference on Long Island at the Westbury Manor on January 12, 2010, Dr. Irwin Kellner, the chief economist for MarketWatch.com, mapped out his economic forecast for 2010, and discussed how it would affect the business world at large, and particularly on Long Island. (PRWeb Feb 16, 2010)

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Tweaking investments at tax time - Traverse City Record-Eagle
BOSTON (AP) — If you’re just starting to think about this year’s tax return, it might seem premature to consider tweaking your investment strategy for your next dance with Uncle Sam in 2011, and beyond. Still, polishing up your moves now might pay

Barclays Profits $18.2 Billion, Beats Forecasts - ABC News
LONDON (Reuters) - Barclays Plc said it had started the year well after beating expectations with 2009 profits of over 11.6 billion pounds ($18.18 billion), on the back of a strong performance at its investment banking unit. The British bank said its

Fairfield police probe bail bonds arson fire - KXTV News10Net
FAIRFIELD, CA - Fairfield police were investigating an arson committed which also houses the Veterans Real Estate and Investment company, police Lt. Randall Boggs said. The bail bonds employee said he heard a noise outside and saw a male suspect

Report: China to make massive investment in NKorea - Times Union
SEOUL, South Korea — China plans to invest billions of dollars in North Korea in an apparent effort to prod the impoverished country to rejoin international nuclear disarmament talks, a news report said Monday. The news came one week after North

Bixby Land Acquires Another San Diego Office Building - Orange County Business Journal
Irvine s Bixby Land Co. is looking to switch up its investment strategy to take advantage of the down market, but the real estate investor and developer still is completing a few conventional deals. Bixby, which has more than doubled the size of

Perry leads in poll, has shot at avoiding GOP primary runoff - Dallas Morning News
AUSTIN Rick Perry holds a comfortable lead over Kay Bailey Hutchison, and his anti-Washington message has mired his rival for the Republican primary race for governor, according to a new poll. Perry’s advantage puts him within striking distance

Our View: It’s time to go back to the drawing board with the Boise - Idaho Statesman
1. A limited role. Critics have a point: the city is starting by building the last piece of a valleywide transit system. The streetcar line could be useful for short hops within Downtown, but that’s about it. That’s true even if ridership reaches the

Arkovi.com ? Business Strength Social Media Archiving

Empowering individuals, organizations and the enterprise to manage their social media footprint. (PRWeb Feb 12, 2010)

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TaxMasters Begins Move to New 107,000 Square Foot Facility in Houston

Expanded office space to house corporate headquarters and operations; room for continued business growth (PRWeb Feb 9, 2010)

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US STOCKS-Wall St gains on reports of help for Greece - Reuters
NEW YORK, Feb 9 (Reuters) - The Dow posted its largest one-day percentage gain in three months on Tuesday, boosted by reports of an aid plan for heavily indebted Greece. A senior German ruling coalition source said euro zone governments have decided

After Mon. dip, Dow ends day back over 10,000 - MSNBC
NEW YORK - The Dow Jones industrial average jumped back above 10,000 on hope that the European Union will help Greece manage its growing debt burden. The Dow at one point Tuesday was up 200 points, a day after closing below 10,000 for the first time

Google Buzz slammed by Yahoo and Microsoft - CNN Money
“Busy people don’t want another social network, what they want is the convenience of aggregation,” Microsoft said in a statement. “We’ve done that. Hotmail customers have benefited from Microsoft working with Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and 75 other

Meyer-Chatfield Launches Free Online Research Portal

The site is packed full of articles, white papers, regulatory bulletins and other educational resources compiled by Meyer-Chatfield's in-house research team, strategic partners and affiliates. (PRWeb Feb 5, 2010)

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Outlooks for SYMM, UUP, ELTP, and KERX Featured at Small Cap Network

Elite Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTC:ELTP), the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index (Bullish) Fund (NYSE:UUP), Symmetricom, Inc. (NASDAQ:SYMM), and Keryx Biopharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:KERX) are the focus/featured stocks today at the smallcapnetwork.com community site. (PRWeb Feb 5, 2010)

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Spoon Me Introduces New CEO Brad Whitaker

Whitaker brings 25 years of growing businesses in the food service industry to Spoon Me (PRWeb Feb 4, 2010)

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Fall in US jobless rate helps lift some market gloom, but European - Minneapolis Star Tribune
It’s been a dismal 24 hours for global markets as stock markets, commodities and currencies have fallen around the world, while bond default risk has soared, as investors have fled risky assets into the relative safety of the dollar,” said Michael

US unemployment surprise alleviates market gloom - Sacramento Bee
LONDON — European stock markets and Wall Street futures pared losses Friday after a surprise fall in the U.S. unemployment rate, but investors remained worried that the debt crisis enveloping Greece may spread to other vulnerable countries in Europe

Big retailers report strong sales gains in January - Los Angeles Times
In a surprise showing for a notoriously slow month, shoppers turned out at the nation’s malls in January, spending carefully but sufficiently to help retailers post solid sales and providing momentum heading into the spring selling season. Retail