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The Counter Adds to Corporate Team
QSR Magazine | 33 days 6 hours 54 minutes ago
[2009-10-21]   Burger concept The Counter announced that Peter Wright joined the corporate team as senior vice president of franchise sales. The Southern California–based company experienced growth after Oprah featured it as one of the "20 Hamburgers You Must Eat Before You Die." To continue the momentum, Wright will be responsible for managing national expansion and growing franchisee relationships to open additional locations of The Counter's burger concept. Wrig...

Nov. 6: Unusual Volume Leaders
CNBC | 17 days 5 hours 20 minutes ago
What follows is a look at stocks in the S&P 500 [.SPX Loading... () ]displaying unusual volume in today's trading session. Some of the highlights include: VeriSign (VRSN), Sunoco (SUN), NVIDIA (NVDA) and Ims Health (RX). >> Behind By The Numbers' Unusual Trading Volume Updates

Figures show record Wall St. profit after bailouts - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 5 days 8 hours 53 minutes ago
However, compensation restrictions that came with government support may limit the tax-revenue bonus boost that New York City -- facing a multibillion-dollar budget deficit -- usually gets from such Wall Street success, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli explained.

Japan shares fall, taking cue from Wall Street - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 5 days 53 minutes ago
Sony e-reader may miss Christmas: WSJ

Wells Fargo to repay clients who held auction rate securities - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 5 days 31 minutes ago
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The North American Securities Administrators Association Wednesday announced a settlement in principle between Wells Fargo Investments LLC and state securities regulators to return approximately $1.3 billion to the firm's clients whose funds have been frozen in the auction rate securities market.

U.S. stocks end slighty lower, weighed by tech - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 5 days 4 hours 18 minutes ago
BREAKINGBrazil to levy 1.5% tax on ADRs: report

Credit cards gouge consumers ahead of new law - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 17 days 12 hours 10 minutes ago
In fact, some 400 credit cards from the nation's 12 largest bank issuers -- accounting for 90% of the $89.8 billion in outstanding consumer credit -- are still using most of the same tactics that the Federal Reserve has called "unfair or deceptive" and that will be outlawed in fewer than four months, according to a new report from the Pew Health Group's Safe Credit Cards Project.

Sun Microsystems narrows first-quarter loss - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 17 days 3 hours 37 minutes ago
GE shares rise on sunnier outlook for finance unit

Japan shares climb with NEC Corp. up 6% - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 18 days 58 minutes ago
Japan shares climb with NEC Corp. up 6%

U.S. stocks mostly down after home sales data - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 31 days 11 hours 13 minutes ago
Treasurys down on concern about Fed rate hikes

Starbucks Bucks The Trend
Forbes | 38 days 20 hours 28 minutes ago
HONG KONG -- Starbucks Coffee Japan and another local retailer raised their profit forecasts Friday, bucking the trend for Japanese retailers.

New York has lost its edge
Times (London), The | 15 hours 18 minutes ago
Readers of Time Out magazine recently voted New York to be the greatest city in the world. Stefanie Marsh begs to differ

'New York has lost its edge'
Times (London), The | 13 hours 13 minutes ago
Readers of Time Out magazine recently voted New York to be the greatest city in the world. Stefanie Marsh begs to differ

Big Business Teams Up With the Left to Sell Cap-and-Trade
FoxNews.com | 39 days 5 hours 8 minutes ago
Every day we have an opportunity to vote with our wallets by letting companies know there is a price to pay for colluding with those who oppose our values.

The Current Economic Storm and Hospitality Chief Executive Officer Job Stability | By David Mansbach
Hospitality Net | 4 days 12 hours 28 minutes ago
As the hospitality industry has been one of the hardest hit segments HVS Executive Search reached out to leading hospitality board directors and CEOs to gain insight on CEO departure trends in the U.S.