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The Senate on Saturday adopted its first budget in four years, a $3.7 trillion blueprint for 2014 that would fast-track passage of tax increases, trim spending gingerly and leave the government still deeply in debt. The NYT reports.
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NEW YORK, April 5- Bank of America Corp on Friday won a federal judge's approval for a $2.43 billion settlement with investors who said the lender hid crucial information when it bought Merrill Lynch& Co..
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April 5- The rustic, 316- room Cheyenne Mountain Resort hotel in Colorado Springs is usually booked solid this time of year, just days before a major national space conference rolls into town.
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HanesBrands shares jumped Friday after the clothing company said it would begin issuing a quarterly dividend and forecast full-year earnings that were largely in line with market forecasts. THE BIG PICTURE: HanesBrands also said Thursday that it expects to earn 48 to 51 cents per share for its first quarter on revenue of $945 million.
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April 5- The rustic, 316- room Cheyenne Mountain Resort hotel in Colorado Springs is usually booked solid this time of year, just days before a major national space conference rolls into town.
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.-- Clothing maker HanesBrands said Friday that it will begin paying a quarterly dividend in June. HanesBrands said that it will pay a dividend of 20 cents per share on June 3 to shareholders of record as of May 20. The company also Thursday that it expects to earn 48 to 51 cents per share for its first quarter on revenue of $945 million.
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NEW YORK-- Standard& Poor's Ratings Services on Thursday raised its rating on Hanesbrands Inc., citing the clothing company's recent debt repayment and modest growth. Hanesbrands, based in Winston-Salem, N.C., makes Hanes underwear, T-shirts and other clothing.
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RALEIGH, N.C.-- A House panel on Wednesday narrowly approved an effort to scale back and ultimately repeal a 2007 law requiring North Carolina electric utilities to generate a percentage of their power through alternative sources and locate energy savings.
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SISSONVILLE, W.Va.-- Production crews were not with a young star of the reality show "BUCKWILD" when he died over Easter weekend and hadn't filmed him since earlier in the week, MTV officials said Wednesday. MTV spokesman Jake Urbanski said it would be at least a few weeks before producers and cast members decide whether to continue shooting season two.
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CINCINNATI-- Electric bills paid by typical customers of Duke Energy Corp. in Ohio would go up $3.72 a month under a settlement the company has reached over its 2012 request to raise its rates. The settlement calls for an annual $49 million increase in revenue for the Cincinnati- based utility for an average 2.9 percent increase on electric bills.
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NEW YORK, April 2- A New York state appeals court on Tuesday cleared the way for bond insurer MBIA Inc to pursue a fraud lawsuit against Bank of America Corp over toxic mortgage securities. A panel of New York's Appellate Division said MBIA did not need to wait for loans to go into default before it could force Bank of America to buy them back.
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RALEIGH, N.C.-- Rivals of North Carolina's leading health insurance company are again backing legislation that would eliminate a practice they say Blue Cross and Blue Shield uses to discourage competition and keep health care costs high.
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NEW YORK-- The eldest daughter of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards says it was difficult to watch the experience her parents went through after he revealed that he'd had an extramarital affair. Cate Edwards spoke in an interview scheduled to be aired on NBC's Today show Friday morning and on "Rock Center with Brian Williams" that evening.
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WASHINGTON, March 27- North Carolina's Kay Hagan on Wednesday became the sixth Democratic senator to endorse gay marriage this week as the U.S. Supreme Court heard two cases on the issue.
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WASHINGTON, March 27- North Carolina's Kay Hagan on Wednesday became the sixth Democratic U.S. senator to endorse gay marriage this week as the U.S. Supreme Court hears two cases on the issue.
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March 27- Wells Fargo& Co said on Wednesday that customers had experienced problems early in the day using their debit cards but the "technical glitch" that prevented use of the cards had been fixed. The No. 4 U.S. bank by assets worked with card processor Visa Inc to resolve the issue, bank spokeswoman Richele Messick said.
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RALEIGH, N.C.-- XPO Logistics Inc., which provides a variety of freight management services, is planning to expand its national operations center in North Carolina's Mecklenburg County. Pat McCrory's office announced Tuesday that XPO plans to create 287 new jobs in the state by the end of 2014 and invest $688,000 in its Charlotte location.
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March 26- Wells Fargo& Co on Tuesday said its online banking website was experiencing an unusually high volume of traffic that it believes stems from a denial-of-service cyber attack. "The vast majority of customers are not impacted and customer information remains safe," said Bridget Braxton, a spokeswoman for the fourth-largest U.S. bank by assets.
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March 26- Film director James Cameron is donating the Deepsea Challenger craft he used to make a record-setting solo dive a year ago to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to speed research into the deepest parts of the world's oceans.
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FRANKFURT/ VIENNA, March 26- When Wolfgang Eder and his team started looking around for a site for a new plant for Voestalpine, the Austrian steelmaker he heads, they had 17 sites in eight countries on their list.
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By Maria Sheahan and Georgina Prodhan. FRANKFURT/ VIENNA, March 26- When Wolfgang Eder and his team started looking around for a site for a new plant for Voestalpine, the Austrian steelmaker he heads, they had 17 sites in eight countries on their list.