On the surface, U.S. companies' second-quarter earnings were fairly respectable when you strip away the financial sector - profits for Standard & Poor's 500 members rose about 10 percent from a year earlier after falling sharply the two previous quarters. ...more

August 6, 2008

Growing global demand and supply constraints will push oil prices to $200 a barrel and gas prices to $7 a gallon within four years, forcing 10 million U.S. cars off the road, according to Jeff Rubin, chief economist at CIBC World Markets. ...more

June 27, 2008

TAMPA - Sweetbay Supermarket announced this afternoon that it has promoted Michael Vail to president of the Tampa-based chain. ...more

June 18, 2008

WAUCHULA — A Wauchula real estate broker is in the process of acquiring the two Coldwell Banker offices in Highlands County. "We think they are important to Highlands County," said Gary Delatorre, broker for Coldwell Banker AmSouth Realty. "We hope to continue the business the way it is going and get more market share." The Sebring office is located at the corner of U.S. 27 and Sparta Road and the Lake Placid office is on U.S. 27. ...more

May 24, 2008

Kim Fenske drives a bus in Colorado by day, but when he's not working, he zooms around the mountains in a 2007 Toyota Prius. ...more

April 21, 2008

Ridership at Tampa International Airport declined 0.7 percent in January, compared with January 2007, to 766,014 departing passengers, continuing a slide prompted by the poor economy, an airport report issued Monday said. ...more

February 19, 2008

I try to provide advice to keep people from plunging into debt during the season of shopping madness. ...more

December 2, 2007

Antitrust regulators are seeking additional information from SABMiller Plc and Molson Coors Brewing Co. regarding their plans next year to combine their U.S. operations, Miller Brewing Co. and Coors Brewing Co. ...more

November 26, 2007

SEBRING – A merger, a company buying a competitor's office, consolidating offices and Realtors moving to other companies are all part of the local real estate business that is dealing with a difficult housing market. Coldwell Banker Highlands Properties LLC, a Sebring and Lake Placid Coldwell Banker real estate affiliate, has merged with Realty World Act Real Estate that became effective Nov. 1. "Basically this merger has allowed us to double our size because both of our offices were, generally speaking, the same size with the same amount of listings," said Jim Carroll, the former owner of Realty World Act Real Estate, and now the sales manager for Coldwell Banker Highlands Properties. "So now we have potentially brought ourselves into a much stronger market share in this area by doing this merger." "I believe the increased signage and doubling of listings, and its potential sales volume, ...more

November 11, 2007

Chrysler LLC may need to trim some models as it focuses on how to reach more customers, the automaker's new head of sales and marketing said Monday. ...more

October 2, 2007