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JN Automotive is showing off its latest line of ultra-luxury automobiles this weekend.
Bentley Honolulu will offer a preview of the luxury line of cars on Sunday to JN Automotive clients and Waialae Country Club members at a special showing at the country club.
JN Automotive is the exclusive dealer in Hawaii […]
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Island Air soon will operate three nonstop routes in the Midwest.
The Honolulu-based carrier will operate the routes that US Airways Express currently operates from Kansas City International Airport to Joplin, Mo.; Grand Island, Neb.; and Harrison, Ark., connecting to Hot Springs, Ark.
The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded the KCI routes to […]
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American Airlines is canceling its services in and out of Oakland International Airport effective Sept. 3 due to high fuel prices, according to a spokesman for the airline.
"Oakland is a victim of very, very high fuel prices," Wagner said. The airline previously stated it would reduce its domestic flying by 5 percent.
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U.K. mortgage approvals fell in March to the lowest level in at least nine years as banks shrank their lending businesses to cope with the credit-market freeze.
Banks granted 64,000 loans for house purchase, compared with 72,000 in February, the Bank of England said in London today. The result was the lowest since the […]
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A long-term agreement between AK Steel Corp. and SunCoke Energy Inc. will bring a new and environmentally friendly plant to Middletown.
The steel maker said Monday that its board has approved a 20-year supply contract with Knoxville, Tenn.-based SunCoke. In turn, SunCoke will build a facility adjacent to AK Steel’s Middletown Works that […]
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The California Container Tax bill is back.
Senate Bill 974, which had been shelved last September, is back in the California Assembly. The bill calls for a $30 fee on each 20-foot unit on every cargo container going through the ports in Long Beach, Los Angeles and Oakland.
The added costs to […]
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown said rising energy and food costs will limit growth in the U.K.
“If you've got a 60 to 80 percent growth in oil, coal and gas prices, it's bound to affect the rest of the economy,'' Brown told the BBC's The Politics Show. “The issue for us is actually, […]
Shares of Toronto-Dominion Bank slumped Monday on speculation that the lender had substantial undeclared exposure to the subprime mortgage mess, a notion the bank staunchly denies.
Toronto-Dominion Chief Executive Officer Ed Clark has spent the past few months reminding anybody who will listen that his bank has avoided the subprime debacle, but a rumor swept through […]
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Canadians are passionate about their plastic money but still love the feel of cold, hard cash, according to a report from the Bank of Canada.
More than a decade after speculating that Canada was becoming a “cashless society,” the central bank says demand for banknotes continues to grow in this country. And that’s got the bank […]
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