• $38M recovered from unemployment cheats
  Anti-fraud effort boosts business climate, Illinois economy

• Financial and Professional Regulation disciplinary report for March now available online

CVS Caremark
1Q profit soars
23 pct

 

• Ford adding 2,000 workers to Missouri plant

• J.C. Penney ad apologizes to customers

Housing rebound is facing obstacle:
too few homes

 

• US construction spending down 1.7 pct in March

US manufacturing grows in April
at slower pace

 

• GM's US sales up 11 pct in April on pickup demand

• Ford's US sales up 18 pct in April

• Unemployment rates fall in 90 pct of US cities

• Survey: Private employers add just 119K in April

• Frontier adds carry-on fee for some passengers

• US Treasury says debt auctions could be trimmed

• Text of the Federal Reserve's statement Wednesday

• CME reacts to WSJ report of timing gaps

• British NGO challenges Goldman tax deal

Italy's new PM pushes for European banking union

 

• Philippines gets 2nd investment grade rating

Energy

Markets  

• Stocks sink on economic worries; Dow off 138

• ING US prices IPO below range at $19.50 per share

Electric car maker CODA files
for Chapter 11

 

• Berkshire Hathaway buys the rest of IMC for $2.05B

• T-Mobile USA completes MetroPCS acquisition

Other

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• MKS Jewelers

• NAPA

• ABE'S

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• Nuisance pests and galls
  By John Fulton 

• Illinois grain prices in country elevators

• Logan County FSA April newsletter

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• Flood of volunteers keeps back the rising Illinois River

• Conservation Stewardship Program Funding Available

• Farmdoc

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