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- CORRECT: Boeing begins labor talks with machinists union
14 minutes agoSAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Boeing Co. said late Friday it started negotiating a new labor contract with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union covering more than 26,000 employees. Workers affected by the negotiations are in the Seattle area, Portland, Ore., and Wichita, Kan., the company said. Boeing expects to have a new contract with the union in place by Sept. 4. (Corrects dateline.)
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- E-Trade to exit retail mortgage origination business
48 minutes agoSAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- E-Trade Financial Corp. said it decided in April to exit the retail mortgage origination business, its last remaining loan origination channel, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing late Friday. The company said it will partner with a third party company to provide customers access to real estate loans after it exits the business. E-Trade said in the filing it originated about $116 million in one- to four-family loans through the business during the three months ended March 31.
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- Verizon Wireless buys SureWest Wireless for $69 million
48 minutes agoSAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Verizon Wireless said late Friday it bought SureWest Wireless, including its spectrum licenses, and network and operations assets in the Sacramento, Calif. area, for $69 million. About 50,000 of SureWest Wireless customers will transition to Verizon's network by late summer, Verizon said.
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- Nasdaq short interest in 9.59 billion shares as of April 30
- U.S. stocks socked by credit crisis; indexes down on week
- Fairchild Semiconductor names CEO Thompson as board chairman
- Delphi first-quarter loss widens
- Crude futures close near $126, up over 8% for the week
- Repros Therapeutics Inc. Reports First Quarter 2008 Financial Results and Pro...
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THE WOODLANDS, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Repros Therapeutics (NasdaqGM:RPRX) today announces financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008 and provides a clinical development
- Westmoreland Reports First Quarter 2008 Results
27 minutes ago
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Westmoreland Coal Company (AMEX:WLB):
- First Ipswich Bancorp Announces First Quarter 2008 Earnings
29 minutes ago
IPSWICH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--First Ipswich Bancorp (OTCBB: FIWC) (the “Company”), the bank holding company for the First National
- Wizzard Announces 130% Revenue Growth in the First Quarter of 2008, Highlight...
- Citizens First Bancorp, Inc. Announces First Quarter 2008 Earnings
- BioSante Pharmaceuticals Reports First Quarter 2008 Financial Results
- Leucadia National Corporation Announces First Quarter 2008 Results
- General Bearing Corporation Releases Results for the First Quarter





