Average U.S. refiner profits surged 22% last week as Hurricane Ivan forced several temporary plant shutdowns along the U.S. Gulf Coast, financial analysts at UBS noted in a report this week. Average refiner profits hit $8.16/bbl on big increases on the Average U.S. refiner profits surged 22% last...
It's bad enough that corporations have allowed compensation for top executives to spiral out of control. Now comes a new report saying tax and accounting loopholes have contributed to the problem of outlandish pay for CEOs. That's right, taxpayers are subsidizing the runaway train...
*Olympic jump. NBC's 17-day coverage of the Beijing Olympics averaged 27.7 million viewers in prime time, surpassing the 2004 Athens Summer Games (24.6 million viewers) by 13% and the 2000 Sydney Games (21.6 million) by 28%. Sunday's coverage of the Beijing closing ceremonies beat Athens ...
Sales of existing homes fell locally and nationally in July from July 2007, although a month-to-month bump-up resulting from booming foreclosure sales in the West gave housing-industry officials some cause for optimism. By comparison, foreclosure sales in this area are minuscule and have had little effect on sales and prices....
Hiestand on TV Selected national, overnight ratings In its national rating, NBC drew 15.2% of U.S. TV households for its Sunday Olympic primetime, which included the Closing Ceremony. That represented a 15% increase over the rating for the last night of primetime at the 2004 Athens...
CHICAGO -- Zacks.com releases the latest Analyst Interview. Today's interview is with senior analyst Jon Kolb, who VeraSun Energy (NYSE: VSE) and Aventine Renewable Energy (NYSE: AVR). A synopsis of today's Analyst Interview is presented below. The full article can be read at http://at.zacks.com/?id=2678. What's one...
U.S. Silver Corporation (TSX VENTURE: USA) ("U.S. Silver" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that July silver production was 179,400 ounces, which is 30% higher than the average monthly production in the 2nd quarter 2008 and 94 % higher than the average monthly production from 2007. This is an...
LEWISTON, Maine -- People worried about the high cost of keeping warm this winter will draw little comfort from the Farmers' Almanac, which predicts below-average temperatures for most of the U.S. "Numb's the word," says the 192-year-old publication, which claims an accuracy rate of 80 to 85...
AAA expects 394,250 Oklahomans to travel 50 or more miles from home over the Labor Day holiday weekend, down 1.2 percent from Labor Day 2007. The auto club expects 373,350 Oklahomans to travel by motor vehicle and 19,000 will fly, both down 1 percent from last...
WASHINGTON -- Consumers may be enjoying some relief at the gasoline pump, but another energy shock likely is just around the corner. Winter bills for heating oil, natural gas and electricity are expected to soar to records, putting a renewed crimp on household budgets. Heating oil...
BEIJING -- Even the joyous scene that followed the U.S. men's basketball team's thrilling 118-107 gold medal victory against Spain was as selfless as the play that had defined the Americans' Olympic performance. They gathered in a circle, arms draped around one another's shoulders. On the podium, they...
NBC's hype is true: By Saturday, its Beijing Olympic coverage was already "the most-viewed event in U.S. TV history." NBC's coverage, by any measure, produced big box office. But before this goes down as an apocalyptic event in TV history, note some devilry in the details:...
Nextrials Selected as One of the Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the U.S. SAN RAMON, Calif. -- Nextrials, Inc., (www.nextrials.com) a leader in clinical research software and services, improved its ranking on the 2008 Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America, coming in at No. 2,364...
Study Results find that VIDAZA is the First and Only Agent Proven to Extend Survival for Patients with Myelodysplastic Syndromes TAMPA, Fla. -- The Moffitt Cancer Center announced today that Dr. Alan List, Physician-in-Chief, was one of the key investigators in a VIDAZA azacitidine clinical trial (AZA-001) whose...
Gas prices in Utah have fallen in recent days, but they remained the third-highest in the nation Thursday, while global oil prices increased. At $4.01 for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline, Utah's average price was 31 cents higher than the national average of $3.70 per gallon....
LONDON, August 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TFG today announces in furtherance of its share repurchase program announced on November 30, 2007, that for the period of August 18, 2008 through August 22, 2008 TFG purchased 90,678 of its shares for an average price of U.S. $6.04 per share. ...
CHICAGO, Aug. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The Entrex Private Company Index PCI saw a 2.2 percent jump based on analysis of July over June revenue data. This news goes against both PCI historical trends for the period and conventional thinking about the effects of the U.S. and Canadian economies...
Extended-stay is the way a growing number of value-minded vacationers are keeping travel costs contained. Demand is up for the nation's nearly 2,500 extended-stay lodgings, originally the domain of businessmen and women on long assignments, now also sought out by leisure travelers. Occupancy averaged 69.9% from January through...
Some parents' refusal to vaccinate children seems to be behind the highest rate of measles cases reported since 1996, federal officials said Thursday. Between Jan. 1 and July 31 of this year, 131 measles cases have been reported in the United States, many of them among children whose parents have...
More than half-way through the 2008 BeijingOlympics, Nielsen Online, a service of The Nielsen Company, today reportedthat U.S. fans continue to follow the games online in strong numbers, withslightly larger audiences on work days than weekends (Table 1). NielsenOnline data also showed that during the recent work week (Aug. 11...
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