A mysterious arms dealer lands Illinois golf course in legal “twilight zone”

MARION, ILL. — Until recently, people here had little reason to know the name John A. Bredenkamp or anything about his past, a tale […]

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Buffett’s Berkshire loses top S&P credit rating

Berkshire Hathaway has been stripped of its top-tier credit rating by Standard & Poor’s as the conglomerate run by Warren Buffett moves to complete […]

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Geist: Three strikes and you’re out system draws cries of foul from governments

Canadian officials travel to Guadalajara, Mexico this week to resume negotiations on the still-secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The discussion is likely to turn to the […]

Suddenlink promotes Patricia Mc

Suddenlink has promoted Patty McCaskill to chief programming officer.
McCaskill, who joined the cable broadband company’s programming department in 2003, has more than […]

German investor buys foreclosed hotel note for half off

A German investor bought the distressed note on a Lauderdale-by-the-Sea hotel and apartment property for less than half of the bank’s foreclosure judgment.
Ptolsemaios Property paid […]

YRC trucking swaps debt for equity, averts bankruptcy

YRC Worldwide Inc., one of the nation’s largest trucking companies, said Thursday that it had cleared a critical hurdle in its effort to avoid […]

Concordia Publishing wins Excellence award

Concordia Publishing House received a 2009 Missouri Quality Award from the Excellence in Missouri Foundation for its organizational performance, leadership, customer service and customer […]

China Lending Boom May Hamper Banks’ Asset Quality, BIS Says

China’s lending boom may erode the quality of bank balance sheets as a jump in lending was “unavoidably” linked to an easing of credit […]

Geithner Sees ‘Progress’ in Job Market, Unemployment Declining

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner predicted the U.S. unemployment rate probably will be lower than 10 percent in a year and said the economic recovery […]

Cadbury prefers merger with Hershey over Kraft: report

Cadbury Plc would prefer a merger with U.S. chocolate maker Hershey Co rather than Kraft Foods Inc, the British company’s chairman Roger Carr told […]