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It’s crunchtime for credit unions
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Data suggest consumers are consuming again
Brisk sales at the Portland RV show and a better-than-expected U.S. retail report for February fuels optimism about the economic recovery.
Posted in Local News Also tagged breaking news, business, economic, economic-recovery, economy, environment, finance, fuels-optimism, portland rv show, retail, retail-report, shirley wilkerson, wilkerson Comments closed
Examiner unveils Lehman accounting tricks
An accounting gimmick called Repo 105 provided financial relief for Lehman Brothers in the months before its spectacular collapse, an autopsy of the once-venerable Wall Street house has found.
Posted in Local News Also tagged 105-provided, accounting gimmick, bankruptcy, before-its, breaking news, business, legal-jeopardy, lehman-or-its, question-now, trickery Comments closed
WaMu tentatively settles with JPMorgan, FDIC
The deal would end protracted wrangling over $4 billion in deposits held by Washington Mutual’s banking units when they were seized in 2008.
Posted in Local News Also tagged banking-units, breaking news, deposits-held, end-protracted, fdic, finance, jpmorgan, wamu, wrangling-over Comments closed
Oregon’s online directory plays matchmaker for businesses
The state has launched a free online business directory aimed at matching Oregon businesses with potential suppliers and customers.
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Export growth likely to remain bright spot for US
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Posted in Local News Also tagged breaking news, bright-spot, business, economy, exports-dipped, finance, jobless in oregon, labor, manufacturing, predict-export, shrank, through-the-rest, u.s. exports Comments closed
Feds may seek more authority over vehicle safety
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will take a “hard look” at the power it has to set safety standards for automakers in the wake of Toyota’s massive recalls.
Posted in Local News Also tagged breaking news, hard-look, national, national-highway, power, set-safety, the-power, the-wake, toyota, toyota motor corp., toyota pedals, toyota recalls, traffic, wake Comments closed
Americans’ net worth slowly gaining
The Federal Reserve says personal wealth rose to $54.2 trillion in the fourth quarter, marking the third straight quarter of gains.
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Northwest investigators mined shopper cards to trace salmonella source
The mountain of data that supermarket chains compile helped Oregon and Washington state investigators zero in on salami and the source of the outbreak — the pepper used to season it.
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