Reuters Business Summary (Reuters via Yahoo! Singapore News)
Consumers, home sales paint less gloomy picture NEW YORK - Consumer sentiment rebounded in July from a 28-year low and business investment rose unexpectedly last month, according to data on Friday that showed rare signs of resilience for the U.S. economy. Data from the struggling housing market also contributed to the less gloomy picture. New home sales in June were not as ...
John E. Roberts, Wedekindt funeral homes merge (The Buffalo News)
The owners of the John E. Roberts Funeral Home have acquired Harry A. Wedekindt Funeral Home, bringing together two area funeral homes with long family traditions in the business.
Business leaders lay the building blocks for revitalizing City of Hamilton's future (Ancaster News)
There is a new excitement, enthusiasm and "synergy" among Hamilton's business community as the city prepares to tell the world it is open for business.
In final five, Hewitt coming home to perform this week (Crookston Daily Times)
Ashlee Hewitt, the Minnesota native who's wowed the judges and viewers into making her one of the top five contestants on "Nashville Star," will be home this week for a couple of hootenannies, one at her family's ranch near Lancaster, the other a benefit at the golf course in Lancaster. Depending on the outcome of tonight's show, her visit to her home turf could be brief or last a little longer.
All creatures great and small (St. Clair County Journal)
The phrase "we consider our pets to be members of the family" has been uttered so often by so many people that it might be dismissed as a cliche. But for thousands of entrepreneurs in the United States, it's the philosophy and the sentiment on which their business is based.
It was 20 years ago today… Two decades of The Business Journal (Business Journal of Tri-Cities)
This is Volume 21, Number 1. Two decades worth of The Business Journal have been written, printed, read and — hopefully — have done you some good. In looking back over 20 years worth of back issues of The Business Journal of Tri-Cities, Tennessee/Virginia (and if you think that’s an unwieldy brand name, just remember, we started off as The Business Journal of Upper East Tennessee and Southwest ...