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Hicksgas-Lincoln Branch is the Chamber Business of the Week

 

• 1st variant of Boeing 787 takes off

AP survey:
Sluggish global economic recovery ahead

 

US builder confidence steady, rates a concern

 

 

• US consumer prices rise just 0.1 pct in August

• United Tech: Europe improving, military parts down

• 22 firms paying $14.4M to settle SEC charges

• Foreign holdings of US Treasury dip fall in July

International

• German economic confidence up more than expected

• UK inflation rate eases to 2.7 pct

Energy

Markets

• Stocks higher as Fed kicks off 2-day meeting

• Safeway adopts poison pill to prevent takeover

• Huntsman to buy Rockwood businesses for $1.1B

Other

• Recent Business News Index

Area Gas Prices
Regular Gasoline per Gallon

Lincoln
$3.44⁹-$3.49⁹

Bloomington
$3.36⁹-$3.99⁹