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• Retailers tiptoe between Christmas, holidays
Second, every sales clerk robotically wished their customers “Happy holidays.” The word “Christmas,” Nash felt, had been discarded by the retailers like a wad of crumpled wrapping paper. So the Fort Benning, Ga., resident took a yuletide stand ...
• Fed boosts emergency loans to financial sector
The Fed said its net holdings of business loans known as commercial paper over the week ending Wednesday averaged $282.2 billion, an increase of $16.5 billion from the previous week. Financial firms are borrowing from the Fed because they are having ...
• British Airways in merger talks with Qantas
A federal government policy paper released Monday proposes lifting the foreign ownership limit — whether by one company or a group of companies — to 49 percent. That would allow Qantas and BA to swap equal stakes in each other. BA has already ...
• You Can't Stop These Stocks
While GE, 3M, and Nike have leveraged their brands to achieve extraordinary growth, the importance of a good brand to a business is not a new discovery. The Atlantic recently reported on a National Bureau of Economic Research paper by Gary Richardson ...
• Producers use LA Times ad to toss salvo at SAG
The "open letter" that appears in Monday's paper says the actors are jeopardizing the work of other unions that have already made deals with producers. It says "SAG is demanding that the entire industry literally throw out all its hard work because it ...