Ford turnaround picks up speed

Ford Motor continued its successful turnaround as better-than-expected sales and profits easily outdistanced expectations and reversed the operating loss of a year ago.
The automaker earned $2.7 billion, or 68 cents a share, excluding special items. The consensus forecast of analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters was for earnings of 40 cents a share, and Ford […]

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Hawker disputes cuts claim

In a letter sent to Hawker Beechcraft Corp. employees on Friday, the company’s vice president of human resources, Rich Jiwanlal, said claims by its machinists’ union about the number of potential job cuts were “not true.”
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 70 President Steve Rooney said in his own letter to machinists last […]

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VW expands Bay Area lab as it goes green

Volkswagen AG CEO Martin Winterkorn touted his company's efforts Monday to grow to be the world's biggest car maker, including an expansion of its new car lab in the Bay Area.
"We want to take Volkswagen to the top of the industry by 2018," Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn told reporters at the company's Electronics Research Laboratory […]

Four-year, $90 million project is completed at St. Anthony’s Medical Center

A four-year, $90 million redesign and construction project recently was completed at St. Anthony’s Medical Center in south St. Louis County with the opening of the hospital’s new heart and vascular institute.
This final part of the project groups three radiology suites, three cardiac catheterization labs, two electrophysiological labs and an endovascular lab together […]

Income not apace with rise in spending

Factories are churning out more goods. Consumers are spending. Government aid is fueling construction activity. But stagnant pay and weak hiring will likely restrain the economic rebound in coming months.
That cautionary picture emerged from a series of economic reports Monday.
Consumers stepped up spending in March by the largest amount in […]

Bernanke Makes Two-Year Treasury Notes Sweetest Spot

Past may be no prologue for Treasury investors when Federal Reserve policy makers begin to withdraw their unprecedented monetary stimulus without raising interest rates.
For the first time since at least 1980, a change in monetary policy may mean the difference between short- and long-term Treasury yields will widen rather than narrow. The threat […]

Stocks stage late advance

A tech rally propelled the Nasdaq and helped the broader market erase losses Friday, as investors took in stride a surprisingly weak jobs report amid other recent signs that the economy appears to be stabilizing.
The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) added 11 points, or 0.1%. The S&P 500 index (SPX) gained 3 points, or […]

Canwest Global posts Q4 loss on weak ad revenue

Canwest Global Communications delivered another quarterly loss on Friday, with the still-sluggish advertising market pulling down overall revenues by 13 per cent during a period that saw little in the way of good news for a company in the midst of a major restructuring.
The Winnipeg-based media conglomerate posted a $111-million loss worth 62 cents […]

ECB’s Wellink: U.S. lives above its means, affects dollar

The United States’ pattern of consumption funded by credit has an impact on its currency’s exchange rate, ECB’s governing council member Nout Wellink said on Thursday.
“The sub prime crisis was an expression of living above its means. That then translates into the exchange rate versus foreign currencies,” Wellink said during a symposium of the […]

U.K. Housing Market Gains on Home Shortage, RICS Says

The U.K. housing market strengthened in September as the proportion of surveyors and real-estate agents reporting higher prices rose to the highest since May 2007, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said.
The number of respondents saying prices rose exceeded those reporting declines by 22 percentage points, compared with 10 percent in August, RICS […]