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Arch Coal elected Deck Slone as the company’s senior vice president of strategy and public policy.
His appointment is effective June 1, and Slone will report […]

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Stronger profits from Microsoft, McDonald’s and other major U.S. corporations pushed stocks higher Friday. Optimism from Europe helped brighten the mood.
The Dow Jones industrial average […]

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“Battleship” steams into movie theaters overseas this week, giving international audiences the first chance to decide whether a board game-based movie is sea-worthy.
The Hasbro Inc. […]

Foreign central banks’ overall holdings of U.S. marketable securities at the Federal Reserve rose in the latest week, data from the U.S. central bank […]

A new probe at Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant has found fatal radiation levels and hardly any cooling water inside one of the reactors, renewing […]

Confidence among U.S. consumers rose more than forecast in February, reaching a one-year high as Americans grew more upbeat about the outlook for the economy. […]

The world’s biggest beer-maker is placing a big bet on a new brew.
Anheuser-Busch InBev this week is rolling out Bud Light Platinum, an upscale version […]

New orders for manufactured goods rose in December and a gauge of future business investment rebounded, while new claims for jobless benefits rose only […]

With Christmas less than one week away, the toy industry has no runaway hit

OF NOTE: The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has added four new members to its Board of Trustees.
The four are: Raschelle Burton, senior VP of corporate […]