Seattle Business News

Okla. — GE Energy Financial Services said Wednesday it is investing $117 million in an Oklahoma wind farm through a partnership with Horizon Wind Energy LLC. Horizon Wind's project is a 99-megawatt expansion of a 225-megawatt wind farm in southwest...

Iowa — Another major provider of 401(k) accounts says the typical retirement saver now has more money in their account than they did before the stock market began tumbling two years ago. The Vanguard Group Inc. said Wednesday that 60...

Q The National Automobile Dealers Association spent $778,000 in the third quarter to lobby the federal government on the Cash for Clunkers program and other industry-related matters, according to a recent disclosure report. The National Automobile Dealers Association spent $778,000...

USA Today newspaper and 11 positions at USA Weekend magazine...USA Today newspaper and 11 positions at USA Weekend magazine...It was not immediately clear what percentage of the work force the positions represent. USA Today and other Gannett newspapers have already...

Investment manager BlackRock Inc. said Tuesday that it has completed its acquisition of Barclays Global Investors, including the purchase of the iShares exchange traded funds business. The combined firm will operate under the BlackRock name and the iShares brand will...

Wyo. — The Wyoming Secretary of State's Office has ordered Merrill Lynch to pay a fine for allegedly misleading investors about the auction rate securities market. Secretary of State Max Maxfield said Monday that a multistate task force negotiated a...

The Treasury Department on Tuesday began auctioning warrants of Capital One Financial Corp., marking the latest government effort to rein in emergency rescue programs set up during the height of the financial crisis last year. Warrants are financial instruments that...

Originally published Monday, November 30, 2009 at 1:57 PM Loews names Jacob A. Frenkel to board Loews Corp. said Monday it has named Jacob A...Frenkel is chairman of the Group of Thirty (G-30), a private, nonprofit group focused on international...

Against the backdrop of record high unemployment and other financial struggles, people are taking out their holiday gifts lists and finding themselves having to cross off friends, relatives and co-workers this year. "Like the rest of the world, this economy...