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| South Florida personal bankruptcies post slight rise in August
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| Consumer bankruptcies in South Florida were up slightly in August compared to a month earlier, but still 33 percent higher than they were a year ago, according to statistics released today by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court's Southern District in Miami.
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| @ Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel | Posted: 09/04/09 at 0201 EDST
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| Clunkers gone, appliances next
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| Federally funded rebates to coax us into buying resource-saving appliances are still a few months from rollout, but the $300 million program already is generating buzz at local businesses. Details of the program, nicknamed "dollars for dishwashers," will largely be decided by the states. Florida's Energy and Climate Commission is hammering out the rules, facing an Oct. 15 deadline to get its plan to the U.S. Department of Energy.
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| @ Ft. Myers News Press | Posted: 09/04/09 at 0315 EDST
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| First-time tax credit denied
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| Buyers expecting to get the first-time home buyer tax credit should check the fine print. They may not qualify. The fine print of the tax provision, which gives a credit of up to $8,000 to buyers who have not owned a home in the last three years, disqualifies individuals whose spouses have owned a home during that same period.
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| @ Miami Herald | Posted: 09/04/09 at 0320 EDST
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| FPL seeks to raise late fees to stop customer deliquency; make $92 million in 2010
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| This year, Florida Power & Light Co. expects to collect $44 million in late fees from customers. Next year, it expects to make $92 million. As the economy has worsened, the number of customers paying late has risen. One in four paid late in December.
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| @ Palm Beach Post | Posted: 09/04/09 at 0330 EDST
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| Midwest |
| Homebuilder taps new Chicago leader
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| A Detroit-area native who grew up in a home his father built has been tapped to head the Chicago operations of the newly combined Pulte Homes Inc. and Centex Corp. Steve Atchison, 40, was named president of Illinois/Michigan for Pulte Homes last month when Bloomfield Hills, Mich.-based Pulte bought Centex in a $1.3-billion deal that created the nation’s biggest homebuilder.
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| @ Crain's Chicago Business | Posted: 09/04/09 at 0345 EDST
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| University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee report finds huge mismatch between job seekers, openings
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| For each full-time job opening of any kind in central Milwaukee, there are 25 unemployed job seekers, says the report from UWM's Employment and Training Institute, prepared for southeastern Wisconsin's Regional Workforce Alliance. That 25-to-1 ratio is up from 7-to-1 in a comparable 2006 study. For Milwaukee County, the gap between job hunters and openings has jumped to 13-to-1, from 3-to-1 three years ago.
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| @ Milwaukee Journal | Posted: 09/04/09 at 0400 EDST
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| Residential housing permits fall from year ago in the Twin Cities
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| Residential housing permits issued in the Twin Cities fell 6 percent from a year ago but increased nearly 11 percent from July to August
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| @ Minneapolis Star Tribune | Posted: 09/04/09 at 0415 EDST
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| Iowa's Economic Indicators
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| Six diferent catagories of data by county Excellent information
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| @ DesMoines Register | Posted: 09/04/09 at 0419 EDST
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| National |
| A slight decrease in Initial Claims
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| In the week ending Aug. 29, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 570,000, a decrease of 4,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 574,000. The 4-week moving average was 571,250, an increase of 4,000 from the previous week's revised average of 567,250.
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| @ U.S. Department of Labor | Posted: 09/04/09 at 0419 EDST
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| The State of the American Worker 2009 Attitudes about Work in America
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| Poll questions from leading survey organizations show that the vast majority of workers are highly satisfied with their jobs. There has been little change in the responses since survey organizations started measuring them regularly in the 1970s.
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| @ American Enterprise Institute | Posted: 09/04/09 at 0419 EDST
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| Costa Rican increased Imports Push Up Trade Deficit
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| Costa Rica imported over $15.3 billion worth of goods and services in 2008, the highest level of imports in the country's history. At the same time, Costa Rican exports, valued at $9.5 billion, also reached their highest level ever.
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| @ Tico Times Costa Rica | Posted: 09/04/09 at 0646 EDST
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| Mexico Housing ‘Stable,’ Moody’s Says; Builders Rise
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Desarrolladora Homex SAB, Mexico’s largest homebuilder, rose 3.4 percent to 79.27 pesos. Corporacion Geo, the second- biggest builder, added 2.2 percent to 31.08 pesos. The Habita index has surged 50 percent this year, compared with a 25 percent gain on the benchmark Bolsa index.
Home prices in Mexico remain stable because firms are building to the specifications set by government-backed mortgage lender Infonavit and the federal employee housing fund Fovissste
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| @ Bandaras News Puerto Vallarta, MX | Posted: 09/04/09 at 0652 EDST
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| Australian growth beats forecasts
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| The Australian economy grew by more than expected in the second quarter of 2009, boosted by increases in household consumption and business investment. The economy expanded by 0.6% in the three months to June from the previous quarter, the government said.
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| @ BBC | Posted: 09/04/09 at 0655 EDST
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