Gold Is Cheap, Yamada, Banks Assert as Sales Pared Update1 Bloomberg.com
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Just because gold is down 14 percent from its high of $732 an ounce on May 12, doesn't mean the rally that began six years ago is coming to an end anytime soon.
Retailers see online sales surge as holidays draw near Detroit News
Cyber Monday, the techno-geek name for the online shopping surge the Monday after Thanksgiving, sent the nation's computer chips to new levels of digital retail greatness last week.
Zacks Bull and Bear of the Day Highlights: Hurco Companies, DST Systems, Nelnet and Newfield Exploration. Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
CHICAGO----Zacks Equity Research highlights Hurco Companies as the Bull of the Day and DST Systems, Inc. as the Bear of the Day. In addition, Zacks Equity Research provides analysis on Nelnet, Inc. and Newfield Exploration Company .
MITI mission to US brings potential investments of RM325mil The Star Online
PHOENIX (Arizona): The International Trade and Industry Ministry's trade and investment mission to the United States from Nov 27 to Dec 6 has managed to attract potential investments of RM325.3mil and possible sales of RM56.176mil from the three cities it visited.
Sales clicking for online retailers Free shipping luring cyber shoppers The Scranton Times-Tribune
As online shopping expands this holiday season, incentives from retailers are giving shoppers added reasons to spend.
Paper still beats e-cards at holidays The Columbus Dispatch
How easy and inexpensive: From your computer, select a cute holiday e-card and zap it to the dozens of people on your list. No cards or stamps to buy.
Crafting music one church at a time Akron Beacon Journal
Orrville hosts the nation's oldest and largest family-owned pipe organ manufacturer, where 90 employees design and handcraft huge, elegant instruments that can cost as much as $2 million.
The battle for the hearts and searches of China's Web surfers Austin American-Statesman
In the village of Laishui, about 100 miles southwest of China's capital, Li De Yin runs a small workshop that seems frozen in pre-industrial time. Bare-chested workers heat copper bowls over an open-coal fire and then hammer the yellow metal into hot pots, which are similar to fondue pots.
Home sellers: winners and losers The Plain Dealer
Here's one of those glass-half-empty/glass-half-full bits of news: Recently, online company househunt.com surveyed real estate agents and concluded that 51 percent of U.S. home sellers are getting 95 to 100 percent of their asking prices.
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A visit from the children at Noah's Ark Preschool last week to the Toy Shoppe of London seems quite poignant. "How appropriate for us that they would be coming," laughs one of London's best-known adult children, Clyde Walton.
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