AP Impact:
Recession, tech kill
middle-class jobs

 

 

• Why Geithner's Treasury leadership proved
  divisive

• American to use Republic Airways for some flights

• NYC giving $1M in post-Sandy grants to small biz

International

Bangladesh
fire victims' families wait for money

 

In crisis, Greeks

turn to wood-burning
and choke

 

 

Thousands strike amid gov't crisis in Slovenia

 

 

• Japan reports record $78.3B trade deficit in 2012

• SKorea's economy grows at slowest pace
  in 3 years

• Dubai bonds raise $1.25B in hint of recovery

• Commerzbank to cut up to 6,000 jobs

• Polish unemployment rate rises to 13.4 percent

• ArcelorMittal to close steel plants in Belgium

• Toyota, BMW working on new battery technology

• Myanmar ex-telecoms minister faces graft probe

Energy

• Oil drops 1.5 percent; gains could be tapering off

• New pipeline attack shows Nigeria unrest spreads

• Cyprus signs gas drilling deal with consortium

• IBM's results lift Dow average to a 5-year high

• Buoyed by surging demand, Ikea to expand
  globally

Other

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• Illinois grain prices in country elevators

• Farm Service Agency announces important program updates 

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