US retail sales edge up 0.1 percent in April
Source: Seattle Times
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 21:47:36 -0700 | business-news
The Commerce Department says retail sales edged up 0.1 percent in April. That's an improvement from the 0.5 percent decline in March, the largest in nine months.
Larry Bush finds his path leads back to tires
Source: The Macon Telegraph
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 19:17:10 -0700 | business-news
Macon, Larry Bush grew up hearing all about tread wear and radials. But that line of business, he thought at the time, wasnt for him. I had grown up saying there is one thing Im not going to do, he...
China's wealthy paying cash for Eastside luxury homes
Source: Seattle Times
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 18:02:27 -0700 | business-news
It's part of a cash-buyer phenomenon sweeping the home market.
Inequality in America
Source: Seattle Times
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 06:56:23 -0700 | business-news
Seattle Times letters to the editor Wealthy insulated from economic woes I found Jerry Large's comments on inequality insightful and effective in outlining the disparity in our society [Inequality a poor path to follow, NWThursday, May 2]. I believe it...
Tacoma waterfront advocate Frank Jacobs dies at 80
Source: The News Tribune
Tacoma :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 03:51:16 -0700 | business-news
PDT Frank Jacobs is not a household name in Tacoma, but according to a generation of city leaders, the strength of his convictions went a long way toward shaping the redevelopment of Tacoma's waterfront. Jacobs, who served on the Foss...
Olympia distributors seek delay of single-serve ban
Source: The News Tribune
Olympia :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 03:51:16 -0700 | business-news
PDT The Washington Beer & Wine Distributors Association is asking the city of Olympia to hold off on pursuing a mandatory ban on certain single-serve alcohol drinks and allow local distributors to voluntarily stop distributing the adult beverages. But City...
Americans most optimistic since 2007 as stocks surge
Source: Herald Net
Snohomish :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 02:19:33 -0700 | business-news
Americans' confidence in the economy climbed in May to the highest level in almost six years as rising real estate values and record stock prices boosted household wealth. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary index of consumer sentiment increased to...
New Microsoft CFO's compensation package disclosed
Source: Seattle Times
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 20:14:20 -0700 | business-news
That's Microspeak for top priority, and that's the news and observations you'll find here from Seattle Times technology reporter Janet I...Tu New Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood is getting about 186,000 shares of Microsoft stock as part of her...
Boost for Osborne as FTSE hits highest level since start of the financial crisis
Source: Mail Online UK
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 13:31:12 -0700 | business-news
17 May 2013 The stock market last night rose to its highest level since the financial crisis, providing a timely boost for Chancellor George Osborne. Britain's biggest blue chip companies ended the day above 6,700 points for the first time...
Morris Piha, onetime property kingpin of downtown Bellingham, dies at 79
Source: The Bellingham Herald
Bellingham :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 12:28:22 -0700 | business-news
Morris Piha, a Bellevue developer who was the dominant property owner in downtown Bellingham from the early 1970s into the 1980s, died Tuesday, May 14, at the age of 79...At one point, Piha's company owned about 25 buildings downtown, including...
Poll: Your big economic worries | Jon Talton
Source: Seattle Times
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 10:39:51 -0700 | business-news
Analysis and commentary on economic news, trends and issues, with an emphasis on Seattle and the Northwest. May 17, 2013 at 10:28 AM Poll: Your big economic worries Posted by Jon Talton The Dow is over 15,000, corporations are sitting...
Former Tuesday Morning CEO sues over firing
Source: The Bellingham Herald
Bellingham :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 13:45:51 -0700 | business-news
The former CEO of Tuesday Morning has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the discount retailer, saying she was fired just months after revealing she had breast cancer. The lawsuit by Kathleen Mason follows a discrimination filing with the Equal Employment...
MicroVision Announces $5.85 Million Offering of Common Stock and Warrants
Source: The Motley Fool
Redmond :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 11:08:33 -0700 | business-news
Crede CG III, Ltd. (Crede) and other investors for gross proceeds of $5.85 million in a registered direct offering. The price per share was determined by the closing bid price on May 16, 2013 as reported on the Nasdaq stock...
Distrust of government has deep roots; the IRS isn't helping
Source: Herald Net
Snohomish :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 01:15:03 -0700 | business-news
Despite the deaths and dissembling in the Benghazi tragedy its remote location has kept it distant in the public mind. The recent IRS disclosure about political targeting hits home, though, because it touches everyone's sense of vulnerability. In most people,...
Home, apartment construction slows; permits reach peak
Source: The News Tribune
Tacoma :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 00:36:44 -0700 | business-news
U.S. builders broke ground on fewer homes in April, one month after topping the 1 million mark for the first time since 2008. Construction fell 16.5 percent in April, but most of the decline was in apartment construction, which tends...
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