By Bryan Gentry Lynchburg News & Advance Published: October 30, 2009 ALTAVISTA - Downtown Altavista is playing host to nearly three dozen straw-stuffed strangers. There’s a slumped scarecrow named Edward Jones outside an...
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BY JOAN E. SOLSMAN Fertilizer maker CF Industries Holdings Inc. has proposed a merger deal which to allow rival Terra Industries Inc. to seek other offers as the companies' buyout battle continues. The proposal, made in "a form...
Rasmussen Reports - Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That's the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls...
BY TESS STYNES People's United Financial Inc. agreed to acquire Financial Federal Corp. in a stock-and- cash deal valued at $718.5 million, increasing its presence in the equipment-finance sector. Under the deal, expected to...
Copper soared 5% last week to $3.1050 per pound on Comex. This year, the metal has more than doubled, rising 123%, The Journal reports. But Copper’s ongoing run-up is coming in the face of growing stockpiles of the metal. The...