Will smart machines
create a world
without work?

 

• Play Cupid without breaking the bank

• McDonald's fish to carry 'sustainable' labeling

• US jobless claims drop to 5-year low of 330,000

• As layoffs keep dropping, hopes rise for job gains

• Measure of future growth up 0.5 pct in December

• US rate on 30-year mortgage rises to 3.42 pct

• US Airways flight attendants to vote on contract

• Pinnacle Airlines is leaving Memphis for Minnesota

• United Airlines to cut 600 jobs

Activists
shut down
Shell station
at Davos

 

AP Interview:
Ohio's Kasich
on 'trade mission'

 

 

 

Draghi:
Reforms needed
for growth

 

 

 

AP Interview:
Cameron wants
UK to remain in EU

 

 

International

Compromise helps Dutch stay afloat
in crisis

 

Venetian Macau sues 2 gamblers over
$4.5M in debts

 

 

• Lithuania aims to adopt euro in 2015

• UK judge rejects Barclays' LIBOR anonymity bid

• ECB: Banks to repay early $183B in loans

• Montepaschi seeks to calm investors over trades

• Portugal postpones sale of public broadcaster

Energy

• Oil gets boost from China, US economic reports

• US crude oil supplies rise by 2.8 million barrels

• US natural gas supplies fell last week

• Apple's sales slowdown tugs Nasdaq index lower

• Money market fund assets fell to $2.696 trillion

• Source: Morgan Stanley CEO will get a pay cut

Other

• Recent Business News Index

• Lincoln IGA

• MKS Jewelers

• NAPA

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• Illinois grain prices in country elevators

• Farm Service Agency announces important program updates 

• Logan County FSA December newsletter

• Agriculture news elsewhere:

• U Of I Study Says Wetland Preservation Policy Should Be Revamped

• Renovating drought-stressed pastures starts with test

• Farmdoc

• Recent Rural Review News Index