Local

Visual Ink Productions
is the Chamber Business of the Week
 

 

National

New from Hershey:
soft caramels

 

 

 

 

Anxiety as stimulus hike in food stamps set to end

 

• Retailers report modest Sept. sales gains

• Average US 30-year mortgage rate at 4.23 pct

• US jobless claims jump to 374,000 due to backlog

• JetBlue to let customers pool loyalty points

IMF warns US must not fail to raise debt ceiling

 

 

• Lew urges quick increase in US borrowing limit

• SunTrust to pay more than $1B in settlements

• Del. court nixes ruling delaying Activision deal

• Airlines dealt setback in merger-lawsuit trial

International

• Chrysler spends $1.2B to expand in Mexico

• Cyprus makes deep cuts to budget amid crisis

• Bank of England keeps rates, stimulus on hold

• EU seeks WTO action in Russia trade dispute

• Stocks soar on views US default threat easing

• Western Refining Logistic shares jump in debut

• Stonegate Mortgage shares rise in debut

• MacroGenics shares climb following $80M IPO

• Antero Resources soars in debut on NYSE

• 2 brothers paying $4.8M in insider trading case

Ford board meeting ends with no word
on Mulally

 

• JPMorgan sells off short-term US government debt

• Platform buying chemical maker MacDermid for $1.8B

Area Gas Prices
Regular Gasoline per Gallon

Lincoln
$3.33⁹-$3.36⁹

Bloomington
$3.31⁹-$3.99⁹