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Republicans block small business plan in Senate – msnbc.com
Senate Republicans blocked a $30-billion plan to help community banks boost lending to small businesses, dealing a blow to President Barack Obama's election-year battle to reduce unemployment. Tempers ran high as Democratic leaders failed to muster the... »
Senate Republicans Block Small Business Aid Bill – Daily Finance
Amid intense partisan sniping, legislation to provide aid for small businesses teetered on the verge of collapse Thursday as Senate Republicans blocked the measure from reaching a final vote. Democrats say the bill is necessary to spur hiring and help ... »
Republicans block small business lending bill – AP – msnbc.com
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's election-year jobs agenda suffered a new setback Thursday when Senate Republicans blocked a bill creating a $30 billion government fund to help open up lending for credit-starved small businesses. The fund would ... »
Primus Telecom Announces First Business Connected On National Broadband Network In Tasmania – TMCnet
Jul 29, 2010 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) -- Primus Telecom today announced the first business customer had been connected to the National Broadband Network (http://www.iprimus.com.au/PrimusWeb/HomeSolutions/FibretotheHome/) ('NBN') in Scottsdale, Tasmania, ... »
Obama Lunches at N.J. Sub Shop, Touts Small Business Plan – NBC New York
The Tastee Sub Shop in New Jersey served one of its most famous customers ever on Wednesday – President Barack Obama , who is headed to the New York area to step up fundraising efforts and tout his small business plan as the midterm elections draw cl... »
Business briefs: Pay czar says banks overpaid executives – Herald Tribune
WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department's pay czar said that 17 banks gave their top executives $1.6 billion in lavish payments while they were receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded bailouts. Kenneth Feinberg said he did not have the authority... »
N. Korea threatens ‘physical response’ – Investors Business Daily
HANOI, Vietnam, Jul 23, 2010 (UPI via COMTEX) -- A joint military drill by U.S. and South Korean forces "is against the sovereignty" of North Korea, a Pyongyang spokesman said at a meeting of Asian leaders. "It is a threat to the Korean peninsula and t... »
Chinese spokesman on China-Japan foreign ministers’ meeting in Hanoi 22 July – Investors Business Daily
Jul 22, 2010 (BBC Monitoring via COMTEX) -- Beijing, 22 Jul (Xinhua) - In response to a reporter's questi... »
BP well cap in Gulf can survive storm: U.S. – Investors Business Daily
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The U.S. government is confident a cap over the damaged BP well in the Gulf of Mexico will hold even if seagoing vessels have to leave the area to avert a tropical storm this weekend, a key official overseeing the Deepwater Ho... »
Scottish first minister denies BP role in release of Lockerbie bomber – Investors Business Daily
LONDON, Jul 22, 2010 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond said that BP had nothing to do with his administration's decision to release a Libyan convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988, The Daily Telegraph reported on Thurs... »