Drowning in deposits, some Northwest co-ops try to survive by asking members to take their money elsewhere
-
Pages
-
Categories
-
Archives
Tag Archives: business
It’s crunchtime for credit unions
Posted in Local News Also tagged asking-members, best of business, co-ops-try, credit unions, debi truong, education, money, money watch, nike schnenk Comments closed
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 best of business, breaking news, 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, best of business, breaking news, legal-jeopardy, lehman-or-its, question-now, trickery 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.
Posted in Local News Also tagged aimed-at-matching, best of business, breaking news, business-directory, careers, connectory, potential-suppliers Comments closed
Burning wood as renewable power draws scrutiny in Oregon and nationwide
The wood “biomass” plants are gaining favor in Oregon and nationwide as a source of green power. But critics say they’re heavily polluting and question whether they’re truly carbon neutral.
Posted in Local News Also tagged biomass, breaking news, electricity, enviro, forests, logging, sawmills, truly-carbon Comments closed
Dodd to offer his own financial regulation bill
With one eye on the calendar and the other on elusive bipartisanship, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd plans to offer his own version of a sweeping overhaul of financial regulations without Republican support.
Posted in Local News Also tagged calendar, christopher, economy, financial-regulations, senate, sweeping-overhaul, the-calendar Comments closed
Regulators tell Albina Community Bank to raise capital levels
Albina Community Bancorp of Portland has entered into a consent agreement with state and federal bank regulators requiring the Portland institution to improve its capital levels as well as the performance of its loans.
Posted in Local News Also tagged breaking news, capital-levels, crisis, economy, federal bank, finance, improve-its, performance, the-performance Comments closed
Export growth likely to remain bright spot for US
U.S.
Posted in Local News Also tagged best of business, breaking news, bright-spot, economy, exports-dipped, finance, jobless in oregon, labor, manufacturing, predict-export, shrank, through-the-rest, u.s. exports Comments closed
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.
Posted in Local News Also tagged best of business, chains-compile, oregon, outbreak, pepper, salami outbreak, source, the-outbreak Comments closed
