Monday, February 13th, 2012
NEW YORK - Stocks slumped Wednesday in one of their worst showings this year as Greece, slogging through negotiations with other countries over a bailout, once again cast a long shadow over the financial markets. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 97.33 points to close at 12,780.95. It was the ...
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Friday, January 27th, 2012
TRENTON — Tom Considine, commissioner of the state Department of Banking and Insurance, is stepping down effective Feb. 10 to return to the private sector, Gov. Christie said today. The governor also nominated Ken Kobylowski, Considine's chief of staff and acting head of banking division of DOBI. Considine, who ...
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Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Community Bank to issue $50 million in new stock DeWitt, NY -- Community Bank System, Inc. will issue more than 1.8 million shares of stock to pay for its recently announced purchase of 19 HSBC branches across Upstate New York. Community Bank said it will price 1.852 ...
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Friday, January 13th, 2012
Urban Bean manager Liz Abene started hunting for a new way to process card payments after the coffee shop's transaction fees skyrocketed. It was costing $60 a month, she said, just to have the credit card equipment on the counter. Her solution: the small, white, cube-shaped card reader called Square. ...
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Monday, January 9th, 2012
KPMG held a meeting on Monday in London with over 800 MF Global UK clients and creditors at which these firms voted in favour of it continuing to work on unwinding the defunct broker, KPMG said on Tuesday. "Both clients and creditors voted overwhelmingly in favour of our proposals, which ...
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