Sunday, January 30, 2011

Beshear reveals Ky. gaming proposal - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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That is one of the detailes ofthe governor’s proposed VLT which was revealed Tuesday. Starting Jan. 1, taxpayers would get an individual income tax credit equal to 50 percent of the tax they pay ontheir vehicles, not to exceed $500 per tax The credit would cost the state about $30 million annually. Startingb Jan. 1, 2011, active duty militar personnel would be exempt from individualincome tax, which would cost the state aboutf $18 million annually.
Currently, active duty personnel are exempted from payinf income tax only when they are serving in a combat In apress release, Besheadr said he hoped his plan wouldx help retain the 100,000 jobs and $4 billion in annuakl economic impact that “Kentucky’s signatures horseracing industry” gives to the state. Fourteen and a half percent of the revenure generated from VLTs would support equin interests through purse supplements andotherd incentives. One percent would go to a newly createf EquineBreed Authority, which wouldd promote non-racing breeds and economic development opportunitied within the industry.
Each traco would pay an initial applicatioj feeof $25,000, plus license fees that would generate $360 million for the state’zs General Fund. Licensing would be for 10 years withsubsequent five-year renewals. would pay an initiapl application feeof $25,00 plus an additional license fee of $75 as would Lexington’s Keeneland/Red Mile track. Florence’xs Turfway Park would pay the highest license fee inthe $100 million.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Vers une cession d'actifs par les gouvernements europeens? - Blog Le Monde (Blog)

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Vers une cession d'actifs par les gouvernements europeens?

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Comme prévu , les Grands Argentiers n'ont rien dit ni fait la semaine dernière, et les tensions sur les marchés des obligations souveraines européennes ...



Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Mortgage rates fall a second week - Phoenix Business Journal:

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's weekly report says 30-yeard fixed-rate mortgages averaged 5.2 percent this week, down from last week's average of 5.32 percent. A year ago, 30-year mortgages were averaging 6.37 percent, although rates fell below 5 percen earlierthis year. The nation’s job market is one factor thought to be influencingmortgage rates. “Interesty rates for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages fell to the lowestf level in six weeks amid market concerns over a weakeningtlabor market,” said Freddiw Mac chief economist Frank Nothaft. “The economy lost 467,00p0 jobs in June, more than the market consensus, and the unemployment rate roseto 9.
5 the highest since August this week in mortgage applications, as refinancing activity jumped and applications to purchase homews rose to the highest level in threee months. Those with more than one mortgage obligation are struggling. The reported this week that the numberf of home equity loans thatwere 30-days or more delinquenyt rose to a recor high of 3.52 percent in the first quartef and home equity lines of credit in defaulg also reached a record of 1.
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Saturday, January 22, 2011

Cardinals gain as Suns, Coyotes, D-backs slide in rankings - St. Louis Business Journal:

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The Cardinals ranked 33rd on this year’s list of U.S. sports franchisees from ESPN The Magazine. The Cards ranked 84th in the same survetin 2008, their 2009 Superd Bowl run and fans approval of head coach Ken Whisenhunt boostinhg their standing. The list is based on a survey of 50,000 fans nationwided and their impressions of pro sportsteams ownership, players, affordability, stadium experiencre and performance. The D-backs, who are in last placwe in the National League West this season prett much out of thepennant race, still rank highesy among Phoenix sports teams but dropped from 10th place last year to 30th this according to ESPN.
The D-backs ranked secondc in the fan survey in terms of pricinhg of ticketsand concessions. The team has been promotingh discountfood items, souvenirs and economical tickeyt plans. Still, the Cards and D-backsd ranked better than the Chicago Cubs, New York Yankees, Dallazs Cowboys and Los Angeles Lakers on the The Los AngelesAngels — owner by Phoenix businessman Artie Moreno — came in first whilw the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers were last among the 122 major pro sports franchises in the U.S., according to ESPN.
The Phoenix Suns went from 26th placde last year to 86th onthis year’s Suns owner Robert Sarver and Generak Manager Steve Kerr were criticizee for the team’s absence in the NBA playoffe this season and trading center Shaquille O’Neapl to Cleveland for financial benefits. The Phoenix Coyotesz hockey team dropped 50 spotes from 2008 to 2009 coming inat No. 88. The Coyotes are in Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization and rankef dead last in the ESPN survegfor fans’ view of team Coyotes owner Jerry Moye wants to sell the team to Canadiabn billionaire Jim Balsillie who plans a move to Canada.
The Nationap Hockey League and cityof Glendale, wherw the Coyotes play, want the team sold to Chicagko Bulls and White Sox owner Jerry who said he would keep it in Arizona.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Orix Says Blum to Lead Money-Management Push After Mariner Deal - Bloomberg

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Blum, 46, a former Merrill Lynch & Co. executive who joined Orix in October 2009 as head of US corporate development, is now chief executive officer of Orix ...



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Monday, January 17, 2011

Regence goes on the offensive for its vision of health reform - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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The main message: Affordable health care can save money and make businessessmore competitive. Regence as well as and other health insurers have joineed the chorus fornational health-care reform. What they are not however, is replacing private insurance withgovernment insurance, such as by openingf Medicare to everyone. Rather, they’re promotingg reforms and striving to influenc public policy in ways that implicitly retaibnprivate carriers. Premera Blue Cross CEO Gubbyt Barlow said most Americans have health insuranc throughtheir employers, not the government, and that worka pretty well for them. The privat e market fosters choice, quality, efficiencyu and innovation, he said.
“The market needs to be given a chancseto work.” Based in Portland, Regence markets healtuh insurance through carriers in four states, including in Washington. Regenc officials declined to say how many millions of dollara the ad campaign costs and how muchmoneyu it’s contributing. In a statement, Regence CEO Mark Ganz said, “Given the nation’sw economic and health care crisis, now is the time to briny meaningful, lasting change to our healtj care system.
” In an unpublished column provided to the Pugegt SoundBusiness Journal, Ganz calle for health insurance featuring a standared package of benefits, community rating, elimination of medica underwriting and meaningful subsidies. He said nary a though, about cost control, which many believe is “No reform proposal is effective unless it targetds the truecost drivers” of health care, said Premera’s Barlow, a member of the healtbh policy and legislation committee of the , a national trader group.
Absent that, he said, the climbing costs of health care will consumse more and more ofthe nation’s Premera has drafted a set of reform principles that address the issud of costs: “Rising costs must be moderater by focusing on wellness and prevention, usingh evidence-based medicine, promoting accountability and reducin unnecessary services.” Regence and the TV advertising campaign’s other co-sponsors arguw that affordable health care and coverage for all are necessary to fix the ailing Affordable, quality health care, they said in a statement, “can save money and make business more competitive.
” Kerrh Barnett, Regence vice president for corporatwe services, in an interview explained that health-care costws are a large and growingf expense for businesses that sponsor employee healtg insurance, and that shows up in higheer prices of the goods and services they produce. This harms theifr competitiveness with businessesthat don’t providw employees with insurance and with foreign firms. The TV campaigbn says nothing about how to make health insurance for businessesmore though.
Barnett said the health-care syste needs “rewiring” to make it less in part by giving consumers more and better information about price and quality when makintg decisions about buying health Barnett said theTV ad’s othet message, also directed at policymakers, is implicift rather than explicit. It’s that a team of big organizations has stepped up to preswsfor reform. Besides Regence, the service employeesw union and the American Medical the team includes the American Cancer Society CancerAction Network, Families USA and the Pharmaceuticakl Research and Manufacturers of America. besides Regence and Premera, Cooperative is speakinh out fornational reform.
As the state’s third-largesyt health insurer, Group Health also provides healtbh care through its own doctors andhospital facilities. Groupl Health CEO Scott Armstrong agreeswith Premera’ Barlow that health care for all entailsw measures to curb costs. “Access is a cost issue,” Armstrongf said. The main problem with the health-carse system now, he said, is that it fails to promote health, and therefore is needlesslgy costly. Changes, he said, should include payingy health-care providers not simply for providing more care but for producinvgbetter results.
Group Health’s recommended reforms line up with thos e proposed by the BlueCrossBlueShield Association, outlined in its “The Pathway to Covering America.” Unlesxs costs are controlled, insurers contend that universal healt care is not

Friday, January 14, 2011

Lanai Wind Farm Proposal Moving Forward - KHON2

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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Kane the 'face' of NHL video game - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:

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“It’s exciting to be on the cover of my favoritre videogame after playing just my second year as a said Kane in a statementfrom California-based EA Sports (NASDAQ: ERTS). “Whej you look back at some of the great playerw who have hadthis opportunity, it’ss an honor to be a part of the EA SPORTS familu and contribute to a game I’ve been playinv for more than 10 years.” Kane won the Caldefr Trophy as the NHL’s Rookide of the Year in 2008 and this past seasonm led the Blackhawks to the Western Conference He has scored more than 20 goalse and registered more than 70 points in each of his firsgt two seasons.
EA SPORTS also announced that it has signesd Canadian junior hockey scoring sensation John expected to be the top pick inthis weekend’s 2009 Entrgy Draft, to promote the release of NHL 10. Tavares will join Kane as spokespersonas forNHL 10.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Dragons win with assistant at the controls - Philadelphia Inquirer

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Friday, January 7, 2011

Johnson County consumer confidence falls in June - Kansas City Business Journal:

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in June from 65.4 in May and 87.6 in June 2008, said CERI creates the index from its monthlgy Johnson County ConsumerConfidence Survey, based on a representativwe sample of households in the county. CERI uses the same methodologyh does for itsmonthly survey. For the nation, The Conferenc Board Consumer Confidence Index fellto 49.3 in June from 54.8 in May and 51 in June 2008. The index number is relative to 100 for the 1985 base year and is calculateds from the Consumer Confidence which The Conference Board bases on a representativd sampleof 5,000 U.S. households.
“After back-to-backj months of strong gains, consumer confidence retreatedin June,” Lynn Franco, directoe of , said in a Tuesday “The decline in the Present Situatioh Index, caused by a less favorable assessment of businesd conditions and employment, continuess to imply that economic conditions, while not as weak as earlie r this year, are nonetheless weak. Looking ahead, expectationsa continue to suggest less negativs conditions in themonths ahead, as opposed to strong growth.” The Presenft Situation Index fell to 24.8 in June from 29.7 in May. The Expectationss Index decreasedto 65.5 in June from 71.5 in May.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Their job is to create jobs - Los Angeles Times

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Sunday, January 2, 2011

East Bay foundry manufactures new home in Nevada - East Bay Business Times:

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"We're on Marina Boulevard in San Leandro and they are turnin it into Auto said Switzer. San Leandro's plans for auto row, as well as Nevada'ds prospects as a cheaper placer todo business, prompted the company's which was made last year, Switzer Nevada has no income tax, and its workers' compensation and wages are lower, he added. The makefr of sand and permanent mold aluminu castings will lay off about 50 to60 workers, but offerer jobs to its entire work forcw of about 100, Switzer said. Abouy 45 employees decided to make the move toCarso City. "The reason being is that some of them can afforcdhomes (in Nevada)," Switzere added.
Production Pattern & Foundrt is trading up, too. It has sold its five-building, 70,000-square-foort warehouse site on Marins Boulevard and will move intoa custom-built, 100,000-square-foot centedr in one of Carson City's new industrial developments. Switzef won't give details or say who boughf the SanLeandro buildings, other than it is someonr interested in auto dealerships. The company is the kind of manufacturintg business that was once more prevalent in San The business first opened in Oakland in 1942 as the Productiomn Pattern Shop and three years later the company added asmall foundry.
To meet demand in the non-ferrous foundryg industry, Production Pattern Shop decides to create and moved into a largere space in San Leandroin 1956. About 100 employees make sand and aluminum castings for customeres inthe transportation, medical, construction and utility Nevada is proud of luring such companies away from the Golden State. Accordiny to the Nevada Commission onEconomivc Development, 38 California companies relocated or expanded to Nevadz in fiscal year Manufacturing firms such as of San Jose and of Emeryvillse were among the immigrants.
Nevada officials in August launchexd a campaign designed to attract California companiesecalled "Nevada to the Another move, more layoffs Productiob Pattern & Foundry isn't the only firm leavinf the East Bay this month. has decided to consolidatse its Treeof Life/Gourmet Award Foods California distribution facilities, and will leave its Northern California operations in Hayward for Los Angeles by Feb. 1. The which markets and distributes naturalo andspecialty foods, opened its East Bay distribution centeer in 1991.
Greg Leonard, vice presidenr of communications andtrade relations, said Tree of Life wantesd a larger, single distributioj center and chose to move to its newer, location in Los Angeles. It will lay off abouft 80 employees. Tree of Life has been operatinv out ofa 130,000-square-foot building and has a leas on a second 19,000-square-foot building, both on Ardem Road. The lease expires in and Tree of Life is looking to subleas e the space or have anothee tenant take over its Leonard said. In consolidatingb its distribution facilities, Leonard said the company will be able to streamlin e more ofits operations.
For instance, he the Los Angeles site will allow increased inventory levels in a single location tominimize out-of-stock risks, provide consolidated receiving and shipping operations and consolidate regional procurement management in a larger center.