With prices rising at the fastest pace since the real estate peak in 2006, buying and selling houses within six months, or flipping, is back in vogue.
Read More »$1.6B Toyota acceleration settlement OK’d
Toyota Motor Corp. won final approval of a settlement with consumers who claimed that recalls related to sudden, unintended acceleration caused their vehicles to lose value.
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More than 170 Missouri lawyers were nominated for the award this year.
Read More »Yahoo surges to five-year high on Alibaba
Yahoo! Inc., the biggest U.S. Web portal, rose to a five-year high after reporting that the value of its stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. surged in the first three months of the year.
Read More »Company spending set to surge
Companies are beginning to empty their deep pockets and boost capital spending as they look past the specter of sequestration and global growth risks.
Read More »Diamond Electric pleads guilty to fixing auto part prices
Diamond Electric Manufacturing Co., an Osaka, Japan-based auto-parts maker, agreed to plead guilty to fixing the prices of parts sold to Ford Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Corp.
Read More »Fed: Recession wage freeze led to recovery’s slow pay gain
A surge in the number of workers whose wages were frozen during the most recent U.S. recession may explain why wage growth has been tepid during the recovery, a Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco study showed.
Read More »Consumers hold back as retail sales miss forecast
The figures show households are replacing outdated vehicles and furnishing new homes and at the same time cutting back on nonessentials such as electronics and meals at restaurants.
Read More »Nixon names Dollar to conservation panel
Gov. Jay Nixon named Kansas City attorney Tim Dollar to the Missouri Conservation Commission.
Read More »Monsanto to withdraw EU GM-crop applications
Monsanto Co., the world’s largest seed company, plans to withdraw its applications for planting genetically modified crops in the European Union after more than a decade of hostility from consumers and governments.
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Read More »Developer can’t seek $3.5B from airlines
Larry Silverstein, who leased the twin towers about two months before they were destroyed, already collected $4.1 billion from insurers and can’t collect twice under New York law.
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